The International Davey Awards Attacks Brexit; Mickael Korvin Wins 2016 Silver for #TheBrightSideOfBrexit

New York, NY, December 01, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Despite the fact that the UK voted for Brexit, the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts didn't, quite the contrary, my dear! The winner of The Silver 2016 Social Media Davey Award, announced today, is none other than #TheBrightSideOfBrexit, a humoristically anti-Brexit thread on Twitter twitter.com/hashtag/TheBrightSideOfBrexit. Written by Franco-American novelist Mickael Korvin, these tweets find the tiniest positive side to what Korvin (alias @twitersavior) views as an overall very bad decision. In 2015 Korvin had already won a first Silver Davey, and was honored by the Webby Awards, for yet another fun hashtag #AMessageToTheMartians (which is still running daily on Twitter). Korvin also does all the photography for his tweets. In France, he is a ten-time published novelist who is controversial, because of his fight to simplify the language, and a regular contributor to newsmagazine L'Express.fr. In November at Legend Galleries, he exposed his collection of positive homeless signs, called "Signs of Hope" to the benefit of the Bethesda Project in Philadelphia.

With nearly 4,000 entries across the US and around the world, the Davey Awards honors the finest creative work from the best small agencies, firms, and companies worldwide.The Davey Awards is judged and overseen by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), a 700+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Current membership represents a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including: Code and Theory, Condé Nast, Disney, GE, Keller Crescent, Microsoft, Monster.com, MTV, Push., Publicis, Sesame Workshops, The Marketing Store, Worktank, Yahoo!, and many others.

You can visit www.aiva.org for more information.

“On behalf of the Davey Awards and our Academy, we want to applaud Mickael Korvin for his dedication and commitment to his craft. We offer our congratulations once again for the exceptional work he submitted,” noted Linda Day, Executive Director of the Davey Awards. She added, “The winners in this year’s competition truly reflect the notion of small agencies executing big ideas. The work entered into this year's Daveys portrays the smart approach to creativity that embodies the capabilities and talents of small firms across the world.”