Just as we were about to go into the crit, Fred told us that Duncan was willing to do our laser cutting there and then so we spent the next hour trying to convert our illustrator files so they would just have the paths that needed to be cut on them. This messed up a few times because Duncan only had CS2 on a PC. When we finally had all the files ready he offered to do them over lunch which was very nice of him. Then we ran back to the studio and Lorenzo very kindly gave us a mini crit of our own over lunch. Our boards had too much stuff on them and we decided that we could cut down the 5 to just 3 and still give YCN a good impression of our project.
However this is when Duncan came back because the laser cutting had failed. Somehow the registration wasn't quite right and the pieces had been cut about 4mm off target. The illustrations just didn't line up with what had been cut. This is how they looked:
Luckily we had printed lots of screenprints and Lorenzo came up with the great idea of cutting these up and sticking them onto the already cut pieces. Lifesaver!!
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