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Game developers, mark your electronic calendars. Registration is open for the 2011 Game Developers eXchange, a major SCAD event that draws some of game design’s most talented artists and designers. Scheduled for May 13 in Savannah, GDX unites SCAD students with game development experts who have directed and programmed some of 2010′s best-selling games. GDX offers a variety of sessions on game art, design and production techniques. Find out more about the event and take advantage of early-bird registration prices at SCAD’s newly launched http://www.scad.edu/experience/events/gdx GDX Web site.

Tuesday, March 8, 7:30 p.m. EST

Tonight David Bram, photographer, editor, founder and curator of Fraction Magazine, will discuss opportunities for young photographers online and the importance of a professional online presence. Bram was the recipient of the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Rising Star Award. Learn more online at http://davidbram.com and http://fractionmagazine.com.

To attend, go to http://livestream.com/scadelearning or http://mobile.livestream.com/scadelearning.

Ellen Weinstein will lecture about her work and life as an illustrator on Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m. EST.

Ellen Weinstein was born and raised n New York City. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute and New York’s High School of Art and Design. Her awards include American Illustration, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Print Regional design Annual, Society of Publication Designers and The Art Directors Club.

Her exhibitions include “La Favalose Matite Colorate Nel Monodo” featuring the work of 40 women illustrators form around the world, including Rome, Naples and Venice 2006-2008; “Artists against the War”; Society of Illustrators “Favorite Flicks,” Society of Illustrators; and “Inxart,” a traveling Exhibition. Illustration anthologies include “Curvy,” “New York Based Creatives” (from Taiwan), and “Drawing Inspiration: Visual Artists at Work” by Michael Fleishman.

To attend the Ellen Weistein presentation, go to www.livestream.com/scadelearning.

For more about Ellen Weistein, go to www.ellenweinstein.com.

A recording of the David Berman lecture is available online. David Berman is a renowned graphic designer and popular international keynote speaker. He presented his keynote speech “Making The Planet Your Client: Designing Sustainability” to SCAD students through SCAD Connect.

To view the recording of his presentation, go to http://scadconnect.scad.edu/p77017760/. Audio kicks in after a minute and a half of the session.

B&H Tools of the Trade Workshops
Friday, Feb. 18, 9 a.m. EST
The Tools of the Trade event offers students the choice of two concurrently running workshops. This event is focused on video and photography production. All students are welcome to attend. Students have the ability to access the workshops via SCAD Connect. Please log in using your SCAD student username and password.

Adobe Production Premium CS5 Workshops
Presenter: Sebastian Distefano
1. 9 a.m. EST- Native Tapeless Workflows in Production Premium CS5
2. 10:30 a.m. EST – From Stills to Motion, using DSLR cameras featuring the Canon 5D
3. 12 p.m. EST – Deep Dive into Photoshop CS5 Extended for Photographers, Designers and Video Professionals
To join the SCAD Connect meeting, go to MySCAD and look under Personal Announcements.

SCAD DSLR Video Production Workshops
Presenter: Paul Bear Brown (SCAD Faculty)
1. 9 a.m. EST – Building your DSLR Kit
2. 10:30 a.m. EST – DSLR Cinematography
3. 12 p.m. EST – Understanding your DSLR camera
To join the SCAD Connect meeting, go to MySCAD and look under Personal Announcements.

David Sherwin is a senior interaction designer at Frog Design, a global innovation firm, where he helps to guide the research, strategy, and design of novel products and services for some of today’s leading companies. He has worked at a wide range of creative agencies, from large marketing consultancies to smaller interactive agencies for clients such as AT&T, Cingular Wireless, Holland America Line, Onyx, Microsoft, Toshiba, and many others.

Watch the lecture and interact with other viewers online at http://livestream.com/scadelearning starting at 7 p.m. EST.

Join the conversation on Twitter using hashtag #scadef11.

The SCAD Career Fair is an annual event that gathers employers from all over the world to Savannah, Ga., to meet with students about jobs and internships. This is a chance for you to meet with recruiters who are looking to hire world-class designers and artists professionally trained by SCAD. SCAD students and alumni are optimal candidates for jobs and internships within the companies represented. The picturesque beauty of historic Savannah is yet another reason why the SCAD Career Fair is a great time to visit.

The 2011 SCAD Career Fair will be held April 8, 2011.

For more information, go to http://www.scad.edu/experience/events/career-fair/index.cfm.

Professional Pursuit is a weekly eCampus blog column about career news and discussions. Please post questions or suggestions, and go to LinkedIn.com and search for SCAD eLearning to join the career-focused group.

On Thursday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m. EST, Barry Schwartz, Ph.D., will deliver “Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: the Paradox of Choice,” based on his book “The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less.”

Schwartz is the Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College. As a psychologist, he studies the link between economics and psychology, and for his talk at SCAD will grapple with one of the great mysteries of modern life – why, when we are offered more options, freedom and choices than our forebears, is depression so prevalent? Conventional wisdom holds that freedom of choice makes a better world, but Schwartz argues the opposite – that an abundance of choice is making us miserable. Not only does Schwartz tell us why all of these choices are hurting us, but he also proposes solutions to the problem.

This event is part of the Savannah College of Art and Design’s popular lecture series, “The Art of the Mind.” The Art of the Mind features talks by prominent intellectuals and journalists. All lectures are held at Savannah, Ga., and are free and open to the public. Check back for information about more events that you can watch live.

To attend, go to http://www.livestream.com/scadelearning.

LinkedIn has a new feature available that helps you visualize the networks within your LinkedIn contacts: LinkedIn Maps.

LinkedIn Maps pulls all your contacts into a web of networks and visually displays them by work type and color. It’s a neat way to see who you know from each group, and who they might know that you do also in between groups. If you click on a contact’s name, a neat profile sheet pops up on the right.

To access the feature, go to http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com.

Professional Pursuit is a weekly eCampus blog column about career news and discussions. Please post questions or suggestions, and go to LinkedIn.com and search for SCAD eLearning to join the career-focused group.

Will Staehle, former art director for HarperCollins and current design director for JibJab Media in Venice, California, will hold a lecture 7 p.m., February 7, in Savannah, Ga. The lecture will be streamed live.

Will Staehle grew up reading comics and working summers at his parent’s design firm in Wisconsin. He was art director for HarperCollins, and has been distinguished by Print Magazine as one of the Top Twenty Under Thirty New Visual Artists. Staehle’s covers have appeared in various design annuals and he has also contributed to the AIGA’s 50 books / 50 covers exhibit. In addition to serving as the design director for JibJab media in Venice, Calif., he also has his own studio, lonewolfblacksheep, where he uses his design and illustration background to create stylized posters, fonts and comics to ensure that he gets as little sleep as possible.

More information about Staehle and examples of his work can be found at http://willstaehle.com/.

To view the lecture, log onto http://www.livestream.com/scadelearning at February 7 at 7 p.m. EST.