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And not a moment too soon. I, for one, have been biting my fingernails again - an old habit rekindled by the gnawing need to know who is among the top 3 in each category for the prize of the year, the Creative Coast Alliance Innovation Award, sponsored by Lott + Barber. If you are as impatient as I am, you’ll be pleased to know that our five esteemed judges have made their decisions.
It was no simple task, but our independent panel of local and regional judges toiled and labored for hours on end, tirelessly deliberating over nearly 100 Savannah innovators across six categories including Community, Emerging Business, Existing Business, Government, Education and Sustainability. Locked in a room like jurists in the O.J. trial, they fed, sleepless, on half-eaten donuts and stale coffee, muddling through piles of applications from top notch candidates in a brave attempt to narrow the competitive field.
Here are the quickdraws still standing when the dust cleared:
So, my friend and colleague, Amanda, asked me to help her out with an event this week. Now, I knew going in that she has affection for maps and all things geography, what with a degree in it, and all. The event - GIS Day, Savannah - was the creative coast’s first effort to recognize GIS Day, which is an internationally observed acknowledgment and celebration of geography and careers in geographic information systems (GIS).
And, I would like to tell you that Savannah’s inaugural celebration of maps, data, geography and general nerdery was a great success!
A whole lot of folks came together from various organizations to help Savannah Area GIS (SAGIS) put on the local event that not only exhibited the truly diverse capabilities and applications of GIS analysts, engineers, cartographers and various scientists, but was actually cool and educational. Seriously. I learned a lot. And, more importantly, so did over 200 local middle school students who were invited to attend the event, held at the Savannah Civic Center.
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Have you seen some interesting activity around Forsyth Park in the past couple of days? Well, the word on the street (actually I got the tip from my roommate, Kelly, and the full scoop from this super article by Jim Morekis at ConnectSavannah.com) is that there is an art piece being installed on nearly 2500 square yards of the downtown green titled, “The Orange Step.”
Photo by Steve Bisson, Savannah Morning News
The Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) is sponsoring the public display of art, created by painter Kiril Jeliazkov, a SCAD graduate. Originally from Bulgaria, Kiril has been working with HSF to exhibit his series of 128 twenty-foot-tall abstract paintings in Forsyth Park.
The project, should everything go smoothly, will be completed by noon today (Oct. 18) and will be on display to the public (for FREE) through Tuesday, October 23 October 30th.
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Don’t tell my boss… but, my job rocks. Seriously. There are a few friends of mine (don’t worry I’m not going to rat you out) who have to sneak around their old-school, suit-wearing supervisors to log-in to their favorite social networking site while on the clock.
Yet, the pull of these sites that allow you to connect with friends - real and “cyber,†stay informed of up-and-coming musicians and “secret shows,†as well as join professional-type networks is just too great. Me - well, I get paid to play on research MySpace and Facebook. (I know!) It is with good reason. Seriously.
These social networking sites have become viable marketing tools that not only bands and bars, but also artists and entrepreneurs view as a necessary piece of their promotions arsenal.
TCCi has had a MySpace presence for some time, and while it was informative and we did manage to “friend†over 800 people – it did not match our sister sites (the TCCi website and this blog – they’re pretty nifty, in case you hadn’t noticed.) So we put our noggins together with those folks from Paragon and Nicasio and TAH-DAH! We have a brand new face for our MySpace page. (And yes, we do have the dramatic before and after photos. Just hold your horses.)
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Posted by Brandi on September 11, 2007 at 06:31 AM
Everyone loves to find out a secret, right? And what could be better than juicy secrets merged with a community art project? Well, in case you have been living under a popular blog rock for the past few years, let me introduce you to the site PostSecret.
PostSecret invites you to:
anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.
You may wonder where the creative aspect comes in to play. Secret keepers are invited to create and mail in 4″x6″ postcards out of any mailable material, using multiple postcards for more than one secret, with the complete secret and image on one side.
Every Sunday Frank Warren, the creator of PostSecret, posts a new group of secrets on his blog. During the week, people are invited to write in their comments about each secret. These secrets have been compiled to create several books over the past few years: PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives, My Secret: A PostSecret Book, The Secret Lives of Men and Women: A PostSecret Book and the latest release, A Lifetime of Secrets.
Posted by Brandi on August 30, 2007 at 09:48 AM
“Cutting edge” and “entrepreneurial” are two words we love to hear around here, and SCAD was listed as both in the Kaplan College Guide and Fortune Magazine this past week. Holla! Woot Woot!
Since I don’t have the Kaplan book, I’m quoting the Savannah Business Report & Journal:
The Savannah College of Art and Design has been named one of “25 cutting-edge schools with an eye toward the future” in Kaplan’s 2008 “You Are Here: A Guide to Over 380 Colleges & Unlimited Paths to Your Future.” In 2006, SCAD was named “Hottest for Studying Art” among America’s 25 Hottest Colleges by Kaplan/Newsweek.
In the words of Borat, ‘a very niiice.’ Personally I like the “Hottest for Studying Art” award; that could be taken quite literally.
Fortune Magazine lists SCAD under ‘Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs’ in the Double Major category, stating:
Students at this artistic enclave can learn about commercial product development through the school’s Working Class Studio course. Undergraduate seniors and graduate students conduct market research, study supply and demand, and work with design and product development professionals to develop, and often manufacture, product lines. The students’ creations are sold at the college and through SCAD corporate partners, such as Barnes and Noble.
Posted by Brandi on August 16, 2007 at 09:20 AM
Free this Saturday?
Gennie from Dizzy Girl is hosting a Savannah Blogger/Flickr Members Meetup this Saturday starting with a photo excursion to Bonaventure Cemetery (2:30pm - 5:00pm) and ending with cold drinks at Loco’s on Abercorn (about 6:00pm). Check out her site for more details and registration info!
Winners were announced earlier this month for the 2007 Adobe Design Achievement Awards - among the finalists was Savannah’s own Jarratt Moody.
In the Motion Graphics category the winner was the team of Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel of Augsburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and the finalists were Jarratt Moody of Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., and Justin Schrader of Rochester Institute of Technology.
Congrats Jarratt!
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Posted by Brandi on July 11, 2007 at 08:00 AM
Armstrong Atlantic State University has been awarded three grants totaling $3.4 million dollars to enhance their nursing program and community health education.
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation:
University System of Georgia Nursing Education Task Force grant will provide the college with $189,320 per year across three years to hire five additional full-time nursing faculty members, raise faculty salaries and obtain new equipment. The funding will allow the university’s nursing program to enroll an additional 32 students each semester beginning this fall.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the school almost $1.5 million towards their SUCCESS program, which sends AASU nursing staff to meet with disadvantaged high school students to promote nursing careers and what is expected of them to gain acceptance in to the program. If accepted, these students will receive both academic and financial support to guide them through the program.
In addition to the local four year medical program being established, the Creative Coast is making strides to increase Georgia’s declining health care professionals population.
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Posted by Brandi on June 25, 2007 at 07:26 AM
Imagine not having to drive over the river and through the woods to relax in Hilton Head, but instead being able to enjoy the trip from the water. A reality in many other coastal locations (Portland, ME, Cape Cod, Chesapeake Bay), the idea of linking Savannah and Hilton Head by ferry is not a new one. In 2000, the Chatham Area Transit Authority looked at ways to improve the flow of people between locales. Last semester, a class of 11 students at SCAD, taught by Professor of Architecture Greg G. Hall, kept busy designing two terminals for a proposed high-speed ferry.
The proposed ideas were for a Savannah Terminal, which would draw visitors to the south end of River Street to be greeted by a garden-roofed building housing the terminal for the ferry. Dwarfed by the Marriott, the building would hopefully draw crowds to the largely unused portion of River Street. The Hilton Head Terminal would snake down the roads of Jenkins Island, enclosed by glass walls, this building would be designed to blend into the undeveloped landscape of the island.
Posted by Brandi on May 14, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Part of SCAD’s Style.
“Denis Blackburne, Chief Financial Officer of Melaver, Inc., will take part in the panel discussion Designing for Sustainability Now May 16 as part of Savannah College of Art and Design’s Style.
The discussion is open to the public and will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 16 in the SCAD Student Center, 120 Montgomery St. in Savannah. For more information call 525-5225 or visit this link.
Blackburne will speak with the founder and Managing Director of Architects Without Frontiers, Esther Charlesworth, and the Zimbabwean graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies. This international panel will explore the notion of sustainability as an environmental, economic, social and cultural necessity rather than as an optional luxury of the wealthy. As the debate regarding globalization intensifies, designers of products, messages, services, and built environments are playing a larger role in the shaping of the global landscape. Such actions require an ethical foundation, and a diligent mindfulness regarding potential repercussions on the human condition and the natural world. The panelists will discuss how individuals who possess the ability to imagine and execute socially just ideas can work across disciplines to initiate positive change.â€
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