The GeeGuides innovative art curriculum receives Flashforward award.
geeART16 selected as winner in the Instructional category

DURANGO, Colo. – The GeeGuides geeART16 cutting-edge art curriculum was awarded the Flashforward Film Festival’s famous orange, rubber arrow for innovative and exemplary work in Flash. GeeGuides used Flash throughout geeART16’s animated movies, interactivities, challenges and more. The curriculum competed with around 100 other submissions for the instructional category alone.

geeART16 utilizes cutting-edge features and content to help reinforce concepts, engage students and bring an emotional involvement to learning art. The company’s mission with the first curriculum series, geeART, is to inspire a passion for art and to instill the necessary skills to use art as a language for self-expression. Through the visual language of art, students learn how to tell a story, capture a moment in time, or share an emotion.

“We are thrilled to be the recipients of this year’s award in the Instructional category,” says Randy Parker, animator and vice president of Project Development for GeeGuides. “There was an enormous amount of talent and variety represented in this year’s FlashForward film festival, and our entire team is honored to receive this recognition.”

“We hold the Flashforward film festival twice a year to celebrate the best work being produced on the Adobe Flash Platform. Every festival, the work gets better and better, and it gets harder and harder to win the coveted orange rubber arrow award. GeeGuides has done a stellar job of using Adobe Flash for educational purposes, and should be quite proud to have earned the top industry award in their category,” says Lynda Weinman, owner of lynda.com and producer of the Flashforward Conference and Film Festival.

To learn more about GeeGuides and take the FREE online demo tour of a full lesson module, please visit their website at http://www.geeguides.com/.

About GeeGuides, LLC
GeeGuides, based in Durango, Colo., is a leading innovator in art education. Established in 2003, the company’s first series, geeART, is an animated, web-based, interactive art education system, providing students with the tools they need to understand, interpret and create art. The award-winning curriculum, which meets national and state curriculum standards, introduces art principles and techniques, explores meaning and encourages self-expression through art. geeART integrates the concepts of sayART™, seeART™ and doART™, through animated lessons and tutorials. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.geeguides.com.

About Flashforward
Flashforward is the world’s first, largest, and most-renowned conference focusing on Flash®, which was recently acquired by Adobe. Since its inception six years ago, more than 20,000 professionals in the industries of design, interactivity, animation, video, and motion graphics have attended 15 events in cities such as San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam, and London. The Flashforward Film Festival takes place in conjunction with the conference, and showcases the most innovative and cutting-edge Flash techniques on the web around the world.

Flashforward is produced by lynda.com [www.lynda.com] and sponsored by Adobe Systems.

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