Cut & Paste

It'd had been our first night out in a while so no surprises that we didn't roll back to the hotel till near on 4:30am after Cut&Paste's first ever event in London!

As the brief description revealed on the home page, Cut&Paste is kind of like Pop Idol for designers, with 8 contestants, all from different backgrounds, battling it out for the crown.

Brick Lane's Truman Gallery provided an excellent (although a little cold!) venue and, given the fact the rugby was on, about 700 people meant a pretty good turn out too.

The comp kicked off at about 21:00 with the theme being currency. After two rounds of 4 contestants the judges kicked out half and we were left with 4 semi-finalists.

 Their theme was the Olympic rings - and what they mean for London and some controversial responses ensued!

We were then left with two finalists battling it out with "poking fun" as the subject with Tom Judd eventually being crowned champion.

You can view all the work at the Cut&paste website, here and if you fancy having go yourself there's still time to enter the online comp.

A great night for design and fingers crossed we see a few more events like this in the future.

Darren