Coudal Layer Tennis

The ever-ingenious Coudal Partners have started hosted "live design events" on Fridays—they're calling these extravaganzas Layer Tennis. Two artists (or small teams of artists) swap design files back and forth, adding to and embellishing each other's work as a writer provides commentary on the action. The match lasts for ten 15-minute volleys of Adobe files. Last week, Jason Santa Maria and Brian Taylor went head to head in Photoshop using Halloween themes as Matthew Baldwin commentated (the evil fawn, above, popped up several times during the match). This Friday, Marian Bantjes takes on Armin Vit in Illustrator, with commentary by Heather Armstrong.