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Thursday night is closing night at AU, and in the middle of the massive closing party this year sat a stage with a DJ and three workstations. The second round of the Cut & Paste Design Slam followed the same rules as the previous round: three teams, one concept, 20 minutes, but in 3D using AliasStudio this time. The design brief was an extension of the previous round, to design a watch for the near future aimed at an active 16-to-25 year old demographic.

The contestants:

Coralee Sandee (Kohler Company) and Rob Wurm (Independent)

Henry Goecke from Armstrong White

Glenn and Rich Walters from Brooks Stevens

More photos from the Slam and closing night party after the jump.

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Digital sketches from round 1, which contestants used as reference for their round 2 surface models. From left: Rob and Coralee's kite-surfer watch, Henry's cylinder watch, Glenn and Rich's "twiddle your own knob" watch.

Henry Goecke's winning design: time and date are displayed on rotating cylinders within an open frame--built from scratch in 20 minutes.

The winning design from the Architecture portion of the Design Slam, a community center consisting of honeycomb modules cantilevered off the Brooklyn Bridge--again, this went from start to finish in 20 minutes.

When 9000 people come to your conference, you can have a closing party that looks like this.

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