1.
 A Talented Pool
Issue: March 2006 Issue
Author(s): Susan Keen Flynn
“Cleveland State is right in the hub of everything,” says an enthusiastic student during a 60-second television commercial for the university. Rapid-fire images depict the campus and other local sites while students extol the benefits of a university in the heart of the city. The TV spot, created for CSU by Toomey & Friends Advertising in Rocky River, won a 2005 Telly Award, a national prize honoring outstanding local, regional and cable television commercials and programs. But Peter Toomey is happi...
2.
 Designing Women
Issue: March 2006 Issue
As a child, Stephanie Fralick used to make puppets and dress them up as “Little House on the Prairie” characters. Today, the West Side native makes a living designing modern clothing for spirited girls – as she likes to describe her clientele. Fralick got her start at the School of Fashion Design and Merchandising at Kent State University, but left early to start her own clothing line, Pinky’s Daily Planner, in 1997. Her style is a modern twist on the clean, feminine lines of the 1960s. But in r...
3.
 Do We Have the Drive It Takes to Compete?
Issue: March 2006 Issue
Author(s): Chris Varley
Everyone knows the term “New York minute” – that infinitesimally tiny interval between the time the light turns green and the driver behind you begins beeping his horn. And as anyone who has spent time in New York will tell you, it is a fairly accurate reflection of the psychological makeup of most New Yorkers:  pushy, impatient and desperate to get ahead at any cost, intolerant of anyone and everything that gets in their way. People in New York drive the same way they conduct business, and g...
4.
 Filmatic Feat
Issue: March 2006 Issue
Author(s): Susan Keen Flynn
For all the Hollywood stories about revered filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, there are hundreds more untold tales of lesser-known independent filmmakers. Husband-and-wife team Kevin Kerwin and Kate O’Neil are two such filmmakers. Kerwin tapped into his experiences at Columbia University Film School, where he earned a masters in fine arts, to write and direct “Filmic Achievement.” O’Neil produced the film. The pseudo documentary pokes fun at the movie industry by following self-absorbed stude...
5.
 History Makers
Issue: March 2006 Issue
Though Cleveland’s Michael Kirk has met Ken Burns and admires his skill, he isn’t trying to be the “next Burns.” Kirk met the filmmaker responsible for the celebrated PBS miniseries documentaries, “Baseball,” “Jazz”  and “The Civil War,” on one of his many trips to New York City. The two filmmakers discussed Kirk’s first film, “A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho,” which profiles the life of freed slave Samuel Harrison, who fought in the Civil War and later became a pioneer ...
6.
 On Point
Issue: March 2006 Issue
Author(s): Susan Keen Flynn
“8:34 a.m.: Hurricane Marge changes course. Again.“ That’s the lead to one of eight advertisements created by Point to Point Communications (P2P) for Simonton Windows, headquartered in Parkersburg, W. Va., about hurricane-proof windows. The full-page spreads appear in construction magazines and play off the hurricane theme in depicting typical customers, such as Hurricane Marge, a sweet old lady plagued by indecision. Cleveland-based advertising agency P2P developed its ICE methodology to generate...