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Hennessey designs a Cut&Paste career

The senior recently won the Cut&Paste contest championship in Portland and will move on to global contest in New York City

Makenna Bishop

Issue date: 4/7/09 Section: News
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Patrick Hennessey, a graphic design student at OSU, recently won the regional Cut&Paste design competition in Portland. Hennessey will fly to New York after finals week to compete in the global competition.
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Patrick Hennessey, a graphic design student at OSU, recently won the regional Cut&Paste design competition in Portland. Hennessey will fly to New York after finals week to compete in the global competition.
Patrick Hennessey, a senior in graphic design, recently entered a design competition on a whim. What he didn't expect was to win the grand prize and the opportunity to participate in the global championship in June.

The Cut&Paste contest originated in New York in 2005 and made its Portland debut in 2007.

The event hosts three simultaneous competitions, 2-D design, 3-D design and motion design. Hennessey competed in the 2-D event.

According to the Cut&Paste event website, anyone can apply by submitting a portfolio, which will be reviewed during the Call for Competitors. The portfolios are judged on quality, and those selected are invited to participate in the test rounds.

The test rounds include a meet-and-greet session, when competitors can mingle and build networks for their futures. Then the candidates are thrown into a simulated competition round, complete with time limits, distractions, design constraints and the pressure of an audience.

The test rounds are judged on performance strength, proving that the competitors can work well under pressure.

The contest is essentially designed to make the competitors look good. Hennessey said he was given the themes for the test rounds a week in advance. The competitors, however, were not allowed to bring any partially finished or finished work with them.

Everything submitted for the contest was required to be created from scratch in the 15 minutes allotted for each round.

Hennessey said he didn't think that the majority of the audience knew the designers were given themes and design projects ahead of the time. Instead it appeared as if the designers were extremely talented in working on the spot and under pressure.

"It really came down to practice and being able to recreate what was in my head in an extremely limited time and in front of an audience," Hennessey said.
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Victor

posted 4/08/09 @ 11:41 PM PST

You are a newspaper. You should practice AP Style. The term is Web site, not website!

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