Ok, so we love this kind of stuff. There’s a new magazine in town, and
it’s called Outlet. It’s mission? “To establish and profile local creativity.”

We’re listening!

The jist: Founded by graphic designer Britt Scott and writer and editor Laura Clark, Outlet magazine is a not-for- profit publication offering Savannah’s creative community an open forum through which to view and display art of all makes and media. As a submission-based magazine, Outlet’s goals are to encourage creation, connect local artists and assist in the emergence of creative careers.

Featuring the work of more than two-dozen local artists and hitting select newsstands December 17, the new issue will be celebrated that night with a free and open launch party held at Hang Fire Bar, 37 Whitaker Street, starting at 8:30 p.m. and featuring music, food, drink specials and local art.

The mag will be on sale for $3.50 at a dozen Savannah businesses including Primary Art Supply, Civvies New and Recycled Clothing, JW Salon and Spa, Leoci’s Trattoria, Smitten Salon and Cherry & East, among other locales.

Several times throughout the the year, TCCa produces a report for its partners at the City of Savannah and Chatham County based on metrics we collectively establish.

This time, we’ve decided to share it with you, the people who help make it all happen.  (The report does not include the past four months, though a lot of good things have happened.)

Please take a few moments to read the linked pdf below.  You might learn something you didn’t know. We hope so.

It’s official. We’re in the thick of the holiday season. The time from Thanksgiving to the New Year when we all get caught up in the merriment of long-standing traditions and fun celebrations. As businesses, we tend to turn our thoughts to the year past (and the piling deadlines due before the end of the year) and the annual greeting card to clients and colleagues.

Enter Paragon Design Group. Every year they seem to come up with yet another card that’s a genuine knee-slapper while also targeted and unforgettable. As the time approached to get their creative gears in motion for 2009, instead of focusing on their agency and its clients, they turned to a different focus – a nonprofit in serious need of funding.

All Walks of Life, Inc. better known at AWOL, is a 501(c)3 organization that helps at-risk youth discover a better life through structured programs during the hours when they are most vulnerable – after school and in the evenings. More specifically, their efforts focus on creative outlets from performing arts to technology-based programs – so of course, we love that. And so does Paragon. So when they found out that the annual budget for AWOL had been cut, they decided to turn a typically humorous creative project, into an all-out fundraising palooza.

Savannah’s own Music Intelligence Solutions was featured on The Discovery Channel’s website, just days after coming off a big win at the 2009 Innovation Awards. It would seem that the same innovative and technological prowess that enamored our judges also caught the eye of America’s most popular science/technology/history channel.

What’s the scoop?

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Music Intelligence Solutions, Inc. (uPlaya) took home the gold in the Small Business category for their interactive online services – including creative development, branding, social networking and discovery tools – for established and budding musicians and songwriters, producers, music supervisors, mobile distributors and anyone who has an affinity for music. One of only a host of resources for musicians, producers, songwriters and consumers, uPlaya.com uses proprietary and patent-protected technology to produce immediate, scientific market analysis and popularity ranking prediction of music worldwide.

“The songs that score the best include a certain amount of unpredictability in the music,” CEO David Meredith told Discovery News in the article. “Norah Jones is a great example of an artist who pulled from jazz and pop to create a sound that was different from other artists at the time, but the underlying patterns of her music was strong and the music scored very well.”