Beginning on April 8, the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) will celebrate the culture, innovation, and global voices transforming design through its annual event, SCADstyle. Now in its 18th year, the dynamic four-day event, which runs through April 10 in Savannah, unites design and lifestyle leaders for insightful conversations around fashion, interior design, graphic design, illustration, beauty, advertising, and more.
SCAD's President and Founder, Paula Wallace, shared her motivation for launching the event: “I created SCADstyle to take our students BTS with today’s foremost artrepreneurs and designers. A beautiful bill of rockstars headline this year’s festival for four days of master classes and convos—including the one and only Wes Gordon, receiving the coveted SCAD Étoile Award. Bees studying fashion, beauty, architecture, interiors, and beyond swarm SCADstyle for inspo on charting a career in design, harnessing social media, leapfrogging and leveraging AI, and more. I invite every Bee and friend of SCAD to seize every synergistic second of SCADstyle 2024!”
Featured SCADstyle guests include Francesco Risso, creative director of Marni; Hillary Taymour, founder and creative director at Collina Strada; Craig Robins, co-founder of Design Miami/; Waterworks co-founder and SVP Barbara Sallick; architect, interior designer, and founder of Jayne Design Studio Thomas Jayne; fashion designer Ludovic de Saint Sernin; photographer Michael Bailey-Gates; editor, curator, and art consultant Stefano Tonchi; co-founder and partner of Yabu Pushelberg George Yabu; chief creative officer of Glossier Marie Suter; creative director of amika Matthew Stetson; Washington Post fashion journalist Rachel Tashjian; and fashion writer Charlie Porter.
Event highlights include a conversation between Whitewall editor-in-chief Katy Donoghue and Craig Redman, the famed artist and illustrator of design duo Craig & Karl, and a discussion with zomer founders and designers Danial Aitouganov and Imruh Asha hosted by Family Style editor-in-chief Joshua Glass.
SCADstyle 2024 also showcases the stellar achievements of the university’s impressive alumni during the Alumni Voices panel featuring Emily Smith (B.F.A., fashion, 2001), creative director of Lafayette 148 New York; furniture and lighting designer Lulu LaFortune (B.F.A., furniture design, 2018); and Kan Ando (B.F.A, fashion, 2010), senior designer at Nike. In honor of the university’s milestone 45th anniversary, the trio will be presented with the prestigious SCAD45 Alumni Award for their exemplary contributions to their professions and for demonstrating the prominence and purpose of a SCAD education.
More than 18 of the university’s top-ranked degree programs are represented in SCADstyle 2024 programming, including fashion, accessory design, interior design, graphic design, industrial design, advertising and branding, illustration, furniture design, architecture, photography, and more.
SCADstyle 2024 events are free and open to the public. For a full list of events and more information, visit scad.edu/scadstyle. Unless otherwise noted, all SCADstyle 2024 events in Savannah take place at the SCAD Museum of Art, 601 Turner Blvd.
