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Dudes, who here loves getting their Civil War re-enactments on? Show of hands.
Don't even be shy about how you like to slowly buckle your cavalry saber and almost erotically apply your huge fake mustache and then head on down to the parking lot behind Applebee's to rain some Antietam down on goddamn Mitch from Sales.
OK so then we all know how civil wars are the bloodiest (and therefore awesomest) wars available today. And folks, that is exactly what we're dealing with in this week's match. The two gents battling it out not only actually know each other, not only have worked together before, not only are the in the same art and design collective—but will be competing in the same room
Oh my god, you guys. Can you even begin to imagine the tension in that tiny horrible room? Can you even imagine the stench?
So we've got two scrappy white guys in up-and-coming Brooklyn with wildly different styles. They both got their start making flyers for bands and are now doing groundbreaking design for top-notch clients all over the world. And we're putting them in a room and locking the door. I'm talking about two men entering and then, a little bit later, one man leaving. Bust a deal and face the wheel.
Will there be attempts at sabotage? Will there be slap-fights? Will they litter their layers with extremely personal attacks, the kind you can only make when you truly know and maybe even love your enemy? I almost guarantee it!
One question remains: Who is the racist Southerner and who is the carpetbagging Northerner? In my ridiculously strained civil war metaphor, I mean. Let's find out! Take my hand, won't you? I SAID TAKE MY HAND.
Our first ball-smasher is Jason Gnewikow, and when I ran spellcheck just now it said "gesundheit." NO OFFENSE JASON, JUST STATING THE FACTS. Jason cut his emo teeth playing guitar in The Promise Ring and also doing the graphic design for the band. This honed his chops for a full-on design career with his own Public Studio where he handles music packaging, editorial illustration, and identity design.
Then over here we got Matt Owens, the principal of volumeone which was established in 1997, back when the marquee tag could still get you laid. He got his start running a punk label called The Buddy System in Austin. Nowadays he is doing print, web, and motion work for clients as well as himself.
Joshua Allen has abandoned all his other projects to work on his unpublishable novel, Chokeville. He quit The Morning News. The Knowledge for Thirst is on hiatus. The House of Wigs is defunct. I mean seriously what is his problem.
Here's how the game works. Jump into the Layer Tennis Forums, we'll be taking the pulse of the conversations there to declare a winner. You can also subscribe to our Layer Tennis RSS feed and follow along via Twitter.
Congrats to totopromo, the in-forum contest winner, and Operator, the remix winner. We have some Jewelboxing and Swap Meat items to send out to you. We're also sending packs of Field Notes to reo5th, BMB and naamyo. Email your shipping info to dawson at coudal.com.
Today is your last chance to sound off about who won Friday's Layer Tennis Matches and to post your remix/contest entries too.
On the last Friday of the season we played two matches at the same time, Koxvold vs Hutchinson and Glass vs Inman. There was a lot of action on the court and a lot in the forums too.
All matches took place on Fridays, live at 2pm Chicago time or GMT-6.
January 25 - Match 1 | View Match
Chris Glass vs Shaun Inman*
Commentary by John Gruber | Forum
January 25 - Match 2 | View Match
Jason Koxvold* vs James Hutchinson
Commentary by Rosecrans Baldwin | Forum
January 11th | View the Match
Veerle Pieters* vs Cindy Li
Commentary by Kevin Guilfoile | Match Forum
December 14th | View the Match
Matt Owens vs Jason Gnewikow*
Commentary by Joshua Allen | Match Forum
December 7th | View the Match
Jason Koxvold* vs Bran Dougherty-Johnson
Commentary by Matt Haughey | Match Forum
Match was played using Adobe® After Effects®
November 30th | View the Match
Trevor Van Meter* vs James Hutchinson
Commentary by Bryan Bedell | Match Forum
This match was played using Adobe® Flash®.
November 16th | View the Match
Aaron Draplin* vs David Nakamoto
Commentary by Steven Heller | Match Forum
November 9th | View the Match
Scott Hansen* vs Rob Cordiner
Commentary by Alissa Walker | Match Forum
November 2nd | View the Match
Marian Bantjes* vs Armin Vit
Commentary by Heather Armstrong | Match Forum
Match was played using Adobe® After Illustrator®
October 26th | View the Match
Brian Taylor vs Jason Santa Maria*
Commentary by Matthew Baldwin | Match Forum
October 19th | View the Match
Naz Hamid vs Chris Glass*
Commentary by Rosecrans Baldwin | Match Forum
October 12th | View the Match
Steven Harrington* vs Chuck Anderson
Commentary by Jason Kottke | Match Forum
October 5th | View the Match
Neil Duerden vs Mathew Star Thomas*
Commentary by Debbie Millman | Match Forum
September 28th | View the Match
Kevin Cornell* vs Shaun Inman
Commentary by John Gruber | Match Forum
* =winner
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