AIGA Jacksonville

15:00 7th Dec 2010

Krung Fu Design Tournament, Round 2 - Semi-Finals!

This has been a phenomenal first-year for AIGA Jacksonville’s Krung Fu Live Design Tournament. While it took some coaxing from its competitors, at first, it truly became a spectacle to witness and enjoy these designers create on the spot. So here we are now at the Semi-Final Round and you can’t help but wonder, “How did we get here?”

With a shared set of 5 pre-determined images from the Krung Stock photo library and 2 pre-determined fonts, each competitor had only 60-minutes to concept and design a graphic in front of a live audience with live, excruciating, play-by-play commentating provided by Levi of The Urban South and Crobar and Greg and Gil of Greg et. Gil.

Match 1

In the very first match of the Krung Fu Design Tournament, with the theme “Beach Party,” Dennis Eusebio defeated Chad Landenberger securing himself a spot in the Semi-Finals.

Match 2

In Match 2, Katy Garrison got the win over last year’s Lightboxing Champion, Russel Quadros, with her vision for the theme “Road Trip.”

Match 3

Stephanie Soden’s interpretation of “Evil Oil” in Match 3 of the tournament helped her get the win over Patrick Carter.

Match 4

Match 4 of the tournament was an epic battle between AIGA Jacksonville’s President, Varick Rosete, and Vice-President, Karen Kurycki. The theme was “Spay or Neuter your Pet” and it surely did not disappoint as both competitors pulled new tricks never seen before in previous Krung Fu matches - Varick utilizing the camera in his laptop to introduce a new “Karen Kurycki Krung Fu-ing” image, while Karen dazzled the crowd with her animated GIF skills. Ultimately, the match ended in a tie, giving both competitors entry to the Semi-Final Round.

Season’s Greetings Semi-Final Spectacular

Mark your calendars because on December 17, the Krung Fu Live Design Tournament is bringing you the Semi-Final Round! And as a Season’s Greeting Special, you can catch both matches:

Dennis Eusebio vs. Stephanie Soden

- and -

Katy Garrison vs. Karen Kurycki vs. Varick Rosete

for the low price of $5 for AIGA members and students ($10 for non-members). Simply purchase your ticket now and save $5, because this price is only for the early birds.

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14:39 24th Aug 2009

18:58 21st Aug 2009

Lightboxing Twitter Trash Talk

- Before the match, the two contenders had an exchange of words in the Twitterverse leading up to fight night. You can follow more of their tweets by following Sean Tucker as @seantucker and Russel Quadros as @russelq -
Sean Tucker: Sorry Russel, this will be your end: http://www.aigajacksonville.org/events/lightboxing-at-refresh-jacksonville/
Russel Quadros: Confident are we? Just because you can play Dr. Moreau with a dog and pony? *ha!* You're so funny.
Sean Tucker: Oh this is going to be good. Sorry in advance for your family. You have decent dental records, yeah?
Russel Quadros: You can stick your sorries in a sack mister. You'll need them when you're crying and trying to tap out.
Sean Tucker: Ima stick you in a sack and throw you in the river. Yeah, like an old fashioned gangster.
- pause -
Sean Tucker: But keep calling me mister. I like that. Shows respect.
- silence -
Sean Tucker: 'Twould appear I have the early lead mon frére. Your move.
Russel Quadros: Honestly, I don't want to make you cry till RefreshJax.
Sean Tucker: http://www.sadtrombone.com/
Russel Quadros: Here. Starting practicing now. You'll need all the help you can get: http://psd.tutsplus.com/
Sean Tucker: You start here: http://www.lkwdpl.org/classes/MSPaint/paint.html Then after the match, this will probably be useful: http://helpguide.org/mental/grief_loss.htm
Russel Quadros: Keep talking smack. It won't save your dog-donkey from turning into a bitch-ass. :-)
Sean Tucker: well that was just dirty.
- pause -
Sean Tucker: and it's a pony. not a donkey. dummy. ":-)"
Russel Quadros: My bad. If only you were a little better at Photoshop...
Sean Tucker: OH SNAP! that's a knockout punch. ok...lunch break. good round. loves ya!
Russel Quadros: I *heart* you too. Can't wait till the next round.
- pause -
Russel Quadros: Veer swag came in yesterday. These will be given out tonite! http://blog.aigajacksonville.org/post/167478764/veer-swag-came-in-yesterday-these-will-be-given ...I've got the mug & it's amay-ZING
Sean Tucker: Oh good, so you won't be too disappointed when you don't win it tonight. IT HAS BEGUN! http://www.wbpcomics.com/Sounds/Mortal%20Kombat-Theme%20Song.mp3
Russel Quadros: HahhAHa! The only thing I'll be disappointed with tonight is your pitiful attempt at design! http://www.entertonement.com/clips/zdvncxdczy--Michael-Buffer-Rumble-CallBoxing-College-Marching-Bands-Arena-Sounds-
Sean Tucker: Disappointed in me, just like my grandparents. You guys still play bingo together at the senior center on Tuesday nights, yeah?
Russel Quadros: Bring your nanny and a change of diapers tonite. You're gonna need 'em. Btw, your grandpa says don't cry like a lil girl again.

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06:04

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Lightboxing Match TKO Recap

Lightboxing presented by Veer at Refresh Jacksonville

Picture one lightbox and two designers going at it head-to-head for 60 minutes! With over 70 people in attendance and a mixture of newbie designers and veterans plus marketers and programmers, our contenders for the night, Sean “Dog-and-Pony-Punch” Tucker and Russel “The Muscle” Quadros, were able to keep their focus and produce a great show for everyone. Their theme for the match: “Spy Movie.” Using only the images and typefaces in the one, Veer-selected lightbox, the designers were allowed to cut, copy, paste, merge, mask….anything, as long as there was no designing below the belt. Both opted to work in Photoshop.

Live commentating - “heckling” - provided by The Urban South and Crobar kept the designers on their feet and the crowd in stitches, making each cut and paste move a moment to remember - like the “Screen Door Filter” (or “SDF”), the “MySpace Tab - I gotta go back to work, girl,” and who could forget the “Oh man, I just crashed my car but luckily I got these sweet gloves on, man.”

In the end, the “Burned by the Lightbox” design of Russel Quadros skimmed by the beautiful antics of Sean Tucker’s “Oliver Quadros is Octorussy” by a narrow 1-point victory: 30-29. An epic bout indeed.

Russel walked away with 120 Veer credits to use in the Veer store, Veer’s Helvetica Coffee Mug, a limited-edition AIGA Jacksonville t-shirt designed by Kendrick Kidd and bragging rights as Lightboxing Champion.

Sean didn’t leave empty-handed as he took home the set of Veer’s Type Coasters and AIGA Jacksonville re:Charge Creative Monster t-shirt.

Throughout the match at every 10 minutes, additional prizes were given to the lucky crowd members whose business cards were drawn from the Veer swagbag:

Jason Fisher - Veer’s Very Secret Order Member Sketchbook Set
Spencer Miller - AIGA Jacksonville limited edition t-shirt designed by Kendrick Kidd
Kevin Alford - Megabyte, the UniPo vinyl toy from Veer and UNKL
Emily Rawitsch - Veer’s Uppercase Scarf
Taryn Hannah - 2 tickets to Live Jazz at the MOCA Friday Night

Thanks go out to Refresh Jacksonville for letting us coordinate with them for the event; Paul Figura Studio for the venue support; Varick Rosete and Joey Marchy for use of their laptops; Content Design Group for providing a second projector; Dave Begley and Blake Coglianese for the great sound setup; Tiffany Manning for taking photos throughout the night; Jen Hyde and Kim Huddleston for helping out with extra hands; The Urban South and Crobar for killer commentating; Sean Tucker and Russel Quadros for a spectacular display of quick, creative thinking, focus and and a vast array of design skills; and a big thank you to Veer for the overall support with the prizes, the lightbox and the tips for a great Lightboxing match. Finally, thanks go out to the great crowd we had that stayed intrigued and interested the whole time. We hope you enjoyed it all. Thank you for supporting AIGA Jacksonville.

In the end, the Lightboxing event turned out way better than expected creating great conversations with “what-if’s” and “I-would-do’s,” as well as a slew of designers showing interest for future Lightboxing matches. TKO.

Check out pictures of all the fun:

AIGA Jacksonville Group Pool
More pics to come…

We’ll see you at the next AIGA Jacksonville event!

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14:09 20th Aug 2009

Veer swag came in yesterday. These will be given out to the contenders and lucky attendees for tonight’s Lightboxing match so bring those business cards. Thanks Veer!

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16:25 19th Aug 2009

Live Commentating for Lightboxing

JUST IN! Thursday’s event will have color commentary from @thecrobar / @theurbansouth duo-U dont want 2 miss this!

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10:05

And in this corner: Sean “Dog-and-Pony-Punch” Tucker

Join us for Lightboxing presented by Veer this Thursday, August 20th, at Refresh Jacksonville.

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10:04

In this corner: Russel “The Muscle” Quadros

Join us for Lightboxing presented by Veer this Thursday, August 20th, at Refresh Jacksonville.

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09:25 17th Aug 2009

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One Lightbox. Two Designers. Refresh Jacksonville.

This Thursday, August 20th, come watch a pugilistic pounding of preposterous proportions in AIGA Jacksonville’s very first Lightboxing match presented by Veer!

Two AIGA Jacksonville designers will put their creative muscles to the test as they go head-to-head in a design-off challenge. Read: this match is not for the faint of heart. There will be cutting. There will be pasting. There will be lassoing, masking and merging. The insanity!

Watch as the quick-rising upstart, Sean ‘Dog-and-Pony-Punch’ Tucker, squares off against 10-year veteran of design and former AIGA Jacksonville President, Russel ‘The Muscle’ Quadros. The rules are simple - using only the images and type provided in a Veer lightbox - make a knockout design. The prize? Bragging rights, 120 Veer credits and some sweet swag.

The theme for this Thursday’s bout - “Spy Movie.”
The lightbox will be revealed to the contenders at the start of the event to concept and sketch for a limited time before the actual bout begins.

Come see how interesting TWO designers can make the contents of ONE lightbox!

Paul Figura Studio
1803 Hendricks Ave
Jacksonville, FL 32207-3303 | MAP

P.S. Remember Refresh is always BYOB.

Ringside prizes awarded
Bring your business card and enter to win some awesome Veer merchandise.

Special thanks to Veer for sponsoring this inaugural match and supporting local designers. Learn more about Veer’s Lightboxing.

Think you can handle yourself in the ring? Let us know if you’re interested in future lightboxing matches.

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