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The Sesaon Finale
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The Sesaon Finale
This is Layer Tennis, a live, weekly series of design competitions, presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 3. It was created by Coudal Partners. We've made lots of other stuff too.
Edward Tufte can suck my ass. All you self-righteous open-standard 4.0 web gurus should twitter me a picture of your iPhone’s iPhone from Self by SelfObsessed, just so I’ll have more proof you’re morons.
What do you know about design? Carson Kressley has done ten times more to promote the good and the beautiful in this world, and at least his sanctimonious side makes me laugh.
Are the new viewers gone? Last time I started out a match insulting the designers in the audience, I got hate mail. I want more. It contained the most delicious misspellings.
So there is my war cry, hear me type. We're all warmongers now, that's the great thing about being an American, so let us have a battle, a championship match about nothing played while our country is at war. In today's match two contenders will fight with brio and blood for your esteem, and maybe also your wallet should you care to hire them to redesign your mortgage-resale brochures. They both come cheap. They need the work. Not joking.
May I introduce: the improbably named Jason Koxvold (thank you, Coudal, for feeding me that one) and the unknown James Hutchinson—unknown to me, because he won't answer my emails, who knows why. Perhaps I shouldn't have asked him to record an mp3 voiceover praising my sex value.
But I did talk to Jason. The conversation went sort of like this, last week, his place.
"You're really good looking," I laughed. I wasn't being sarcastic.
"I'm married," he said. "Do you mind?"
I chipped a tooth on a beer. "So what's up with the other guy?"
"Who, Hooch?"
"You call him Hooch?" We were doing push-ups by that point.
"Boof. Dude's British."
"Why can't Coudal ever get women to participate in these things?"
"Women?"
That's Kox in a nut. Or not: Koxvold's in fact a very good designer, and as for Hutchinson, it's safe to say he's a very good artist. People, jokes on pause, I woke up this morning so angry about Iraq and our current President my hands are still twitching, and it's difficult to be serious about anything involving pixels. So let's have fun. Fuck it. It's Friday, I'm in Paris, you live somewhere wonderful, The Wire still has a few episodes to go and in some corner of the world somebody loves you. There's my war cry, and I'm sticking to it, even if it probably was on a movie poster once.
Go Obama.
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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