Design battle – for pride, for honor and just for fun

For the last five weeks or so thoughts has been spinned and neighbourship has been created, now we’re officially done with the practical task. Kuli. Today was the final day, deadline day, and it was time for us to present our idea The Vulkan League for the rest of the school.

Our idea is to invite the creative schools in the neighbourhood; The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts and Einar Granum School of Art to create a community of creative students competing to become the best in spontaneous design. The students joins up in teams within their school and compete against each other in a head-to-head battle. Like in the improvisational theatre it’s the audience that decides on a theme for the design and come with suggestions to what they can make, as well as to declare the winning team.

It would have taken too much effort to pull off our true idea as an event just for this project, but to show our fellow students what we’ve been working on for the last weeks, we decided to arrange a demo event for them to see what the idea is about, create neighbourship across the departments at our school, spread the enthusiasm and have fun. For the true idea we’ve planned that you can compete in different categories, but for this demo we’ve chose “Live trace” as the competition style. Two teams competed against each other simultaneously. Each team consisted of two people; one who drew on a whiteboard, and the second one who drew digitally on a computer, through a projector. The team worked together to finish their final design on the computer.

Yann, one of our graphic design teachers, teamed up with graphic design student Aleksander, and competed against Liv, an art direction teacher who teamed up with Eirik, an art direction student. It was Yann vs. Liv, graphic design vs. art direction – a battle for pride and honor! And it was so much fun! So many people came to show their support and excitement for the competition. So thank you all in the audience for making such a good atmosphere! Also a big-bigger-huge thanks to the contestants Yann, Liv, Eirik and Aleksander! You guys rocked! Thank you so much!

Now, here are some photos from today’s event – you watch them, and I’ll go watch Friends. Have a great weekend everyone!

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