Scion Presents Cut&Paste’s Digital Design Tournament

Scion has teamed up with design website Cut&Paste to deliver the 2009 Digital Design Tournament, a global touring challenge that places 2D, 3D, and motion designers literally center stage in a unique talent showcase. The competition also features new global Audience Design Contests in 2D and 3D.

The Digital Design Tournament visits 16 cities in 2009, with three competitions per city on the slate. At each stop, the city’s brightest designers will take to the stage with judges hovering over them, music blaring, minutes ticking down on the clock, and a fast-talking MC on the mic. An elaborate tech setup registers every mouse click and tapped command from each designer’s workstation and projects them live on one of the large-scale displays in full view of the audience.

Judges will evaluate each work and select winners from 2D, 3D, and motion design competitors. City victors then become eligible for the first-ever Global Championship in New York, which pits the 16 winners from each category against one another to take the global grand prize. Prize packages for both city competitions and the global championship include design product from Wacom, Apple, Pantone, Colormunki, and Autodesk.

For the Audience Design Contests in each city, in 2D and 3D, participants are challenged to create an electronically generated T-shirt graphic in a speed round – 15 minutes for 2D contestants and 20 minutes for those working in 3D. One ultimate winner will be chosen from all of the entries received throughout the entire tournament and awarded a full outfit from the 55DSL Spring/Summer 2009 collection and a trip to the first-ever Cut&Paste Global Championship, where the global winner of the contest will be announced.

Cut&Paste is a social arena for the discovery, advocacy, and elevation of design. Its mission is to provide channels of visibility and inspiration for designers, both aspiring and established, to reach their existing audience as well as potential fans. For more on Scion and Cut&Paste’s Digital Design Tournament and Audience Design Contests, please visit www.cutandpaste.com.

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