Are you a vector fiend?
I have just been browsing Coudal Partners’ Layer Tennis. Matches consist of a ten volley round of vector tennis between two graphic artists.
It got me to thinking – sure, none of us is a Veerle Peters or an Armin Vit (yet) but why don’t we give it a crack?
Guidelines (you know what pirates say about guidelines)
- Players must use illustrator
- Matches take place with two players
- Each match consists of ten rounds
- Each volley must use an element from the previous player’s volley (unless it is the first volley, where the first player to volley gets to “set the scene”)
- All volleys must use original work (no stock photos or vectors)
- Players must wear those tennis socks with a bobble at the heel
Questions
Are you up for it? Do you have any ideas where we could host this marvellous (yet friendly) competition? How long should each artist get for a “volley”? Do you think Coudal Partners would sue us for using the term “Layer Tennis”? Can you think up a better name?
How about this for five minute’s work? It’s nerdy, makes me giggle and illustrates the idea of the “volleying” involved without ripping off the original title!
jemimalovesbigted
how about I ♥ Patterns for hosting, and sounds brilliant to me!
Natalie Perkins replied
But it doesn’t relate to the group! I wish I could ask for a new group to be made, but they’re on hold at the moment :/
I could always just set up a flickr set on my account for hosting, but it’d just be strictly hosting and no real sense of community involvement.
I could also set up a blog for it, which of course I don’t mind… it’d just mean that we’d have to get a few people to be involved so it doesn’t die!
thickblackoutline
hey nat! the vector goodness lounge will get involved with doing this, this is a very cool idea!!
jemimalovesbigted
I was just going to say why not ask TBO and Nat… don’t need to now =D
Helen McLean
1. Vector Pong sounds good
2. I don’t think you should use someone else’s name (copyright)
3. Idea sounds like fun, I’d be in on it
4. I think that 5 days max should be given to volley (some of us have kids and jobs ;o))
5. Hosting at vector goodness lounge sounds ideal
6. yay!
Helen McLean
Edit:
1. Vector Ping Pong sounds better.
I just read my comment and thought “Vector Pong sounds ‘smelly’”....
Natalie Perkins replied
That’s what I was thinking at midnight last night when I was drawing the Vector Pong image :P
When I slept on it, I woke up and thought “ugh, it’d be too easy for critical bloggers to say that we stink!”
kaberoo
lol @ vector pong smells funny… so i got to thinking that a 5 minute piece by me would have to be some vector pong.
kaberoo
Natalie Perkins
AHAHHA
THE PONG HAS BEGUN!
Evelyn Howard
eww!
Evelyn Howard
Sounds really interesting – I’m in if it doesn’t take too long!
Beatriz Iglesias
Hahahah!
bchrisdesigns
i am down!
georgiegirl
ew, that’s gross Kabero!!! Put me in for this!! sounds like fun ;D
Christina Norwood
You might like to check out a similar idea in action here
chelsgus
Wow! Sounds fun – another way to avoid things I should be doing.
kaberoo
soooo?? whats happening??
Natalie Perkins replied
Well not a whole lot right now because my computer crashed!!
I set up a wordpress blog the other night to display the matches but that’s as far as I got.
kaberoo
ahh, lol, just keeping in touch ;)