The latest campaign of the collaboration between Adidas and Gucci offers a bright and cheerful approach to the collection, captured by Gucci’s trusted art director Max Siedentopf
Escape now! Grab 5 fingers and get to the pub! Cogs & Marvel released Banshees: The Game, an homage to the multi-Oscar nominated movie. This collect-and-run escapade boasts a nostalgic late 80s gaming vibe. Now you can experience the chills and spills of Irish cultural repression in pixelated 8-bit glory.
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.
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.
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.
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.
© Niklas Schnaubelt[/caption]
Cihan Tamti on the Forward Stage[/caption]
As one of our Forward Festival speaker, Cihan Tamti rocked the Forward Stage in Berlin 2022. Cihan Tamti is a graphic designer from Bochum. He is probably best known for his poster design, merch for artists like Lauryn Hill and some projects he initiated himself. Cihan had to work hard to make his Instagram account as big and successful as it is today.
Cihan Tamti mixes timeless graphic design with his custom typefaces to give brands their own voice, that is his signature style. Cihan works with international clients like Calvin Klein, Adobe, Ebay, Netflix or Google.
[caption id="attachment_27687" align="alignnone" width="1000"]
© Cihan Tamti x Slanted Publishers[/caption]
© Werner Streitfelder[/caption]
Go listen to the full episode and get a glimpse of the holiday spirit of four creatives.
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.
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.
(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]
