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Creative-industry

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    18 days ago

    Yuko Shimizu - The Honest Truth

    In this interview, you will get a glimpse into the life of Yuko Shimizu (清水裕子), a renowned illustrator. She talks about how to deal with rejection, how to make choices when you're young, and what to expect of the creative industry and life as a freelancer. Although Yuko may not have the one right answer to every problem, but she knows what she's talking about from her own experience.

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    22 days ago

    Slanted on their incredible publications and the evolution of the creative industry

    The independent German publishing house Slanted focuses on publications on contemporary art, illustration, design, photography and typography. With their own Slanted magazine, they aim to cover a broad spectrum of the creative industry and its designers and artists. Get to know Slanted, its publications, (maybe upcoming) projects and thoughts about the creative industry and its constant change and development. We talked to Julia Kahl a Partner, Editor and Graphic Designer at Slanted Publishers.

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    a month ago

    Forward X Ohne den Hype: Mehr Hype um die Feiertage

    Together with OHNE DEN HYPE, Forward welcomes you inside the mind of creatives, artists and designers! In intimate and personal conversations with Forward-speakers, industry legends and creative shooting stars, the podcast revolves around personal topics – completely without the hype that usually surrounds them. This edition is a special holiday edition with more than just one creative.   In this episode Sven talked to Eike König, Mathilda Mutant, Julien Riganti and Christoph Amend about how they spend their holidays and asked them what tips they have for us to relax after the holidays. In addition, this episode may contain some glimpses of the year 2023.   [caption id="attachment_14810" align="alignnone" width="1000"] © Werner Streitfelder[/caption]   Go listen to the full episode and get a glimpse of the holiday spirit of four creatives.

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    2 months ago

    Asking Creatives of Forward #4: What do you love and/or hate most about your job?

    Have you ever wondered about how other creatives work or deal with the difficulties of the creative industries? Welcome to “Asking Creatives of Forward”, our new series in which we ask the creatives of our newly founded Forward Network about their daily hustle, their techniques and other advice.

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    2 months ago

    Forward X Ohne den Hype #11: Ju Schnee

    Together with OHNE DEN HYPE, Forward welcomes you inside the mind of creatives, artists and designers! In intimate and personal conversations with Forward-speakers, industry legends and creative shooting stars, the podcast revolves around personal topics – completely without the hype that usually surrounds them. This tenth edition focuses on the life and creative work of type designer Ju Schnee who talks to Sven Jürgensmeier about how she always wanted to be an artist but thought it was just an unrealizable dream for a long time.   As one of our Forward Festival speaker, Ju Schnee rocked in 2022 the Forward Stage in Berlin. Ju originally comes from Graz, where she studied communication design. After she finished her studies she worked for a while as a freelancer. Then she decided to move to Berlin in 2020 and devoted herself entirely to art. After that, everything concerning her art went pretty fast. She has been exhibiting internationally in Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, Spain, France and Belgium. Since 2022 next to her studio in Berlin she is also located in Austria, Vienna. the best-known graphic designers, Mario Lombardo shaped the design scene in this country for many years. In the age of digital aesthetics he has shifted the focus onto -experimental and craft activities, at the same time breathing new life into print media. His passion for craftsmanship continues to this day. After his studio had grown more and more, he decided after several successful years to go a different way. Ju Schnee is one of the first artists to combine augmented reality with oil paintings. She has been experimenting with different media for several years, combining traditional paintings and sculptures with NFTs, AR and AI.     In this episode Ju Schnee and Sven talk also about galleries, self-promotion, the year of learnings, how to create an identity and cover your old tracks and she revealed to him how she found her own style, which she calls wobbly, which is very lovely as a description.   Go listen to the full episode and get a glimpse into the mind of Ju Schnee with us.

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    3 months ago

    Asking Creatives of Forward #3: If you could make up your dream client, what would they be like?

    Have you ever wondered about how other creatives work or deal with the difficulties of the creative industries? Welcome to “Asking Creatives of Forward”, our new series in which we ask the creatives of our newly founded Forward Network about their daily hustle, their techniques and other advice.

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    4 months ago

    Forward X Ohne den Hype #10: Mario Lombardo

    Together with OHNE DEN HYPE, Forward welcomes you inside the mind of creatives, artists and designers! In intimate and personal conversations with Forward-speakers, industry legends and creative shooting stars, the podcast revolves around personal topics – completely without the hype that usually surrounds them. This ninth edition focuses on the life and creative work of type designer Mario Lombardo who talks to Sven Jürgensmeier about the courage and the realization that you are allowed to do something else when your career is actually going great.   As one of the best-known graphic designers, Mario Lombardo shaped the design scene in this country for many years. In the age of digital aesthetics he has shifted the focus onto -experimental and craft activities, at the same time breathing new life into print media. His passion for craftsmanship continues to this day. After his studio had grown more and more, he decided after several successful years to go a different way. Today, two tasks determine his daily work - on the one hand, the perfume house Atelier Oblique, which he founded in 2016, and on the other hand, he still works as a graphic designer, but today as a one-man army, without any employees at all.     In this episode Mario and Sven talk also about his early music career, about his family's escape from Argentina in the late seventies, about the desire to belong, about getting older, about what's important to him, and about a trip to America with three million euros worth of jewelry in his carry-on bag.   Go listen to the full episode and get a glimpse into the mind of Mario Lombardo with us.

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    5 months ago

    Forward X Ohne den Hype #9: Tobias Rechsteiner

    Together with OHNE DEN HYPE, Forward welcomes you inside the mind of creatives, artists and designers! In intimate and personal conversations with Forward-speakers, industry legends and creative shooting stars, the podcast revolves around personal topics – completely without the hype that usually surrounds them. This ninth edition focuses on the life and creative work of type designer Tobias Rechsteiner who talks to Sven Jürgensmeier about self-employment, the rise of type design and how Grilli Type was created.   [caption id="attachment_26015" align="alignnone" width="1000"] (c) Grilli Type[/caption]   Tobias Rechsteiner has been at the Forward Festivals multiple times, sharing his insights at workshops and talks. He is not only the Account Director of the independent Swiss type foundry Grilli Type, but also the designer of their recognizable and iconic fonts GT Hapti, GT Zirkon and more. He describes himself as a cliché Swiss perfectionist combined with a certain bit of scrappiness that’s due to the influence of his life in Berlin. His unique approach comes from his numerous experiences as a designer as well as his education in business administration. The unusual path from designer to type designer to businessman and designer at heart is one of the many aspects that make Tobias an impressive and interesting person.   [caption id="attachment_26017" align="alignnone" width="665"] (c) Hannah Schierholz, taken at Forward Festival Vienna 2021[/caption]   In this episode  Tobias and Sven talk about the many facets of being a creative. From being your own boss to founding agencies, traveling all the time over to his love for type design and his role as Account Director at Grilli Type, Tobias and Sven really explore all the aspects to Tobias professional life.   Go listen to the full episode and get a glimpse into the mind of Tobias Rechsteiner with us. Tobias Rechsteiner will hold a talk and a workshop at Forward Festival Berlin in 2022.

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    5 months ago

    Asking Creatives of Forward #2: What was the nicest/coolest/most interesting project you did that never got published?

    Have you ever wondered about how other creatives work or deal with the difficulties of the creative industries? Welcome to “Asking Creatives of Forward”, our new series in which we ask the creatives of our newly founded Forward Network about their daily hustle, their techniques and other advice.

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    6 months ago

    DALL·E 2 - a new tool powered by AI is creating images that wow the internet

    Have you ever seen a donkey eating a smoothie with a paddle or babies doing parkour? DALL·E 2 by Open AI is the new advanced artificial intelligence system for creating images, which exposes the darkest recesses of your imagination. It takes simple text description like “cookie monster death metal album cover” and turn them into photo-realistic images that have never existed before. So is manipulating visual concepts through language now within reach? Let’s sort it out.

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    6 months ago

    Asking Creatives of Forward #1: What do you do when you run out of ideas?

    Have you ever wondered about how other creatives work or deal with the difficulties of the creative industries? Welcome to “Asking creatives of Forward”, our new series in which we ask the creatives of Forward Network about their daily hustle, their techniques and other advice.

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    6 months ago

    Iconic album covers of 2022

    If you have been on the internet any time in the last few days, or checked your Release Radar on Spotify within the last weeks and months, you will have noticed the immense amount of great releases in the music industry. Kendrick Lamar, Beyonce & Rosalia are just a few of the names that dropped a fresh albums this year. And with new albums often come great covers. In the following article we have collected some of the most iconic cover artworks of this year and dug a bit deeper to shine a light on the creatives behind the art pieces that will be hanging on walls, standing on shelves and spinning on record players across the globe.

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    6 months ago

    Foward Festivals 2022: Connecting Creatives!

    We can barely believe it ourselves, but this is the 8th year that we will inspire you during our Forward Festivals! For this year's theme “Connect, Create, Collaborate” we curated an amazing line-up with over 50 speakers coming to Berlin and Vienna! Forward Berlin will be taking place from September 22nd - 23rd at Kino International. For Forward Vienna we will be from October 6th-7th at the Gartenbaukino.

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    7 months ago

    Sensing life and structures in micro, macro and cyberspace

    How we use digital technology today determines how we experience it in the future. That’s something, but still very little about Wang & Söderström - artist and design duo who creates imaginaries of the present and future through digital narratives. Natural forces, microbes, virus attacks, habitats and parasites… Anny Wang and Tim Söderström are investigating the relationship between living things, digital technologies and materials in the current and future digital and ecological shift. We talked about doing things the wrong way and how their synthetic realities translate into sculptures, visual imagery and installations that bring craft, body, nature and technology together. Wang & Söderström will speak at the Forward Festival Vienna in October. Next to them, you will be able to hear Creatives like Deutsche & Japaner, Ada Sokol, Jim Stoten and many more.

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