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    a day ago

    Digital beauty is making reality more fantastic

    Raise your hand if you have ever tried a face filter on Instagram! No doubt, pretty much everyone using the photo platform has used a face filter to augment one´s face and the reality around oneself.

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    9 days ago

    Byebye Donald: How designers process the Trump-era creatively

    With Donald Trump as the president of the United States of America, the world has been through a lot. It has been a wild ride full of fake news, thousand of tweets, embarrassments, and political scandals. Four years it was all eyes on Donald. Magazine covers, political cartoons, photo installations, and design activism have been part of his era as much as his slips of the tongue (remember “covfefe"). High time to have a trip down memory lane!

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    a month ago

    & Walsh creates emojis for creatives

    Frustrated by the current set of emojis available, New York design studio & Walsh created emojis suitable for the design industry, picturing the Zeitgeist of 2020. Developed earlier the year, at the end of 2020 they are more up to date than ever.

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    2 months ago

    Centre For Impossible Media is the newest VR exhibition platform you should know about

    The Centre for Impossible Media shows that pretty much everything is possible with virtual art. The project is a collaboration between Universal Everything and Human Studio and is a VR exhibition platform for visionary artists.

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    2 months ago

    Big cat wins international design awards for FORWARD CREATIVES

    In cooperation with the London-based production studio The Mill and Art Director Raj Davsi, the unique short film “The ODD One Out” was produced on the occasion of Forward Festival 2019.

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    2 months ago

    Rebuilding the world: Lego designs places through the eyes of kids

    Lego redesigns the world according to how children see it: Renders by architect Dara Huang show the reimagination of community buildings.

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    3 months ago

    How creatives are processing the Vienna attack

    The terror attacks in Vienna on November 2nd happened especially close to our heart with Forward Festival being born and raised in Austria´s capital. Whenever something traumatic happens, creatives process the events in their own ways. Here is our collection of how Vienna gets through these intense times.

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    3 months ago

    Next level web-experience: Mother Earth predicts your eco-future

    Digital Design Studio TeYosh teamed up with web developer Rifke Sadleir to create their newest project for Cinekid Festival - an interactive web experience about consumerism, climate change, and sustainability.

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    3 months ago

    Arts and Crates for Arts and Crafts - AND UNION x #SoliKüche

    Difficult times call for extra solidarity and extra initiatives to support those in need! That's why the design legends at Karl Anders in collaboration with the modernist Bavarian craft beer company AND UNION have launched a new creative initiative to support the Hamburg-based Kitchen Guerilla with their project #SoliKüche.

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    3 months ago

    HEART DIRECTORS CLUB - Design & Art for Charity

    Let us introduce you to the Heart Directors Club! Very well aware of the fact that artworks won't save the world, the people behind Heart Directors Club also know that a little financial help can definitely make things easier!

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    3 months ago

    The winning designs of the ONLINEPRINTERS Poster Competition 2020

    In late summer, ONLINEPRINTERS and Forward launched an open call for posters focusing on the one topic that has never been more accurate than in 2020: Creative Crisis. We asked creatives what they were doing during Corona lockdown? What has been their inspiration, who has been their muse? We wanted to see how a worldwide crisis made them creative and how COVID-19 affected their artwork. No matter if the piece was created during the lockdown or right after.

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    4 months ago

    Micol Talso & her adventures at Toiletpaper Magazine

    Micol Talso is the Art Director of Toiletpaper Magazine, a label that can be applied to a variety of objects and situations, starting from a magazine to a party, a girlfriend or a design object. We spoke to her about Toiletpaper as a project, her workflow and how to juggle several roles in life.

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    4 months ago

    OBEY founder portraits Snoop Dogg for voting campaign

     The presidential elections in the US are approaching rapidly and campaigns are arising to motivate US citizens to participate in the elections and make use of their voice. OBEY founder, Shepard Fairey, has designed a series of posters starring Snoop Dogg for the voting initiative 'Vote With Snoop'. Together with the voting advocacy groups RockTheVote, 1VoteCloser, and social justice initiative OneOpp, the rapper and Fairey are trying to mobilize US citizens to go and vote on election day.

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    4 months ago

    In Love with Data! Dennis Lück at Forward Session Hamburg

     The Forward Festival Vienna is just around the corner and we are already hungry for all the exciting inputs from the most creative minds of the industry that are awaiting. For the first time, there will be a Livestream of the festival! As a little foretaste to the upcoming festival we have something special for you today!

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    5 months ago

    How to experience art digitally: Area for Virtual Art is launching

    It's 2020, it´s corona and art becomes silent. How to make it loud again? The Area for Virtual Art knows just the way: By presenting digital and AI-based art, using the internet and its hyperlink-based nature as a new environment for exhibition and communication. The newest digital art space launches tomorrow, 9th September, within the frame of Ars Electronica!

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    5 months ago

    In-between reality and fantasy with Ines Alpha

    Ines Alpha likes blurring the frontiers between reality and fiction. And by being a 3D makeup artist she makes reality more fantastic and surreal. We had a chat with Ines Alpha about her 3D makeup routine, Kim Kardashianesque beauty standards and about creating an Alpha planet.

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    5 months ago

    Forward Calendar September 2020

    Every month, the Forward Calendar brings you the most important events from our community. In contrast to regular event calendars, we don’t just collect an innumerable amount of exhibitions and conferences taking place in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Our calendar is a collection of the most inspiring events from the Forward universe. The kind of calendar that brings you forward.

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    5 months ago

    Joined forces to Support Your Local Dealer

    23 international artists have collaborated and designed the new “Support Your Local Dealer”-T-Shirt. The third edition revolves around a “Rave New World”.

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    6 months ago

    Bureau Betak convinces once again with outstanding set designs for Dior and Jacquemus

    Where to start when talking about the legendary Bureau Betak? The studio dedicated to the production of high-end fashion shows, exhibitions, and spectacular events has studios in New York, Shanghai, and Paris and gave rise to over 1000 events with which it located itself at the top of the list of production agencies in the world of luxury, fashion, and events. Fashion houses like Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Viktor & Rolf, etc., trust the revolutionary mind of Alexandre de Betak, the Bureau’s director, in composing the perfect setting, which is a piece of art in itself, to present their latest collections.

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    6 months ago

    '100 Beste Plakate' 2019 is touring again

    “100 Beste Plakate” is an association and exhibition series presenting the best, printed posters created throughout the year in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This year's edition was just launched in Berlin and is now moving through the DACH region and to Korea.

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    7 months ago

    Chasing the phantom behind the infamous Döner Kebab logo design

    Most countries have a dish with whose invention they adorn themselves and that is being promoted as a national treasure with cultural significance. To serve only a few of the stereotypes, we could say the Italians are incredibly specific on how they cook their pasta, the Belgians can’t do without waffles and the Austrians do love a good Schnitzel. Countries and inventors of dishes take credit for original recipes, secret ingredients, or the only 'real' way of preparing a certain meal.

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    7 months ago

    Milton Glaser : "I did anything I wished"

    In the last days of June the designer of the famous I ♥ NY Logo, Milton Glaser, passed away on his 91st birthday. 

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    7 months ago

    Marcus Fairs | Dezeen at Forward Festival Vienna

    Marcus Fairs is a journalist who became an entrepreneur or as he describes it: He is someone who thought he wanted to be a designer, wasn't very good at design, then discovered journalism and became an entrepreneur.

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    7 months ago

    Sketchy or sexy? newlife.ai said to be the new tumblr

    No followers, no likes, no ads – nothing but pure quality content curated by a transparent, open-source algorithm AND still somehow generating income. Sounds too good to be true? We did some research.

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    7 months ago

    Angewandte Festival goes alternate.mode

    "Can you move a festival into digital space?" The University of Applied Arts Vienna's reply: "No." But it will be happening either way. Angewandte Festival 2020 is about to go alternate.mode, in digital and public space, from 23 to 26 June.

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    8 months ago

    BLM: Follow these talented BIPoC creatives

    We asked our community on Instagram to share some accounts by talented BIPoC creatives to support in this time and in the future. Diversify your inspiration, follow them & we will be updating the list with your suggestions:

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    8 months ago

    Just launched! Submit your art to the new Moon Exhibition website by Readymag

    After sharing your artworks on our Instagram feed for five years now, we are excited to announce that the Moon Exhibition now has its own website! Created by the team of Readymag design tool, it has turned into a proper exhibition showing over 50 artworks by up-and-coming creatives. Submissions are possible anytime and can be uploaded quickly and easily at moonexhibition.com under submit.

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    8 months ago

    Interview: Jessica Walsh on how to use stress as fuel for your work

    Jessica Walsh is the founder and creative director of &Walsh, one of the few creative agencies around the world that are led by women. She talked to us about sexism in the creative industries, role-models and her approach to dealing with stress. This is an extract of the 2020 Forward Print Magazine. Find the full interview here.

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    9 months ago

    Made by & for creatives - Art Aid Austria offers beautiful prints by local artists

    Now, more than ever before, it is vital to find alternative solutions for artists, photographers, illustrators and designers to present and sell their art. Fortunately, more and more of these platforms have been popping up and we'd like to introduce one of them: Art Aid.

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    9 months ago

    Anthony Burrill and the human feel of the analog

    Graphic artist, print-maker and designer Anthony Burrill is best known for his “Work Hard & Be Nice To People” poster. The thought-provoking phrase has become something of a mantra within the design community. It reflects the persuasive and up-beat style of communication that we connect with Anthony’s work and that we have all come to love.   Interview by Marco Markovic

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    9 months ago

    Lockdown Special: http://throughthewindow.online by DVTK

    The Moon Exhibition Lockdown Special aims to support the creative community during the crisis by connecting them and giving them a platform to express their ideas.

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    9 months ago

    Annie Atkins' pandemic advice

    Wes Anderson's graphic designer and Forward Festival speaker Annie Atkins used her time in quarantine to share lighthearted lessons on how to get through the lockdown in a 'fake' poster series.

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    9 months ago

    Designers support your local dealer

    32 designers and artists joined forces and created a one-of-a-kind t-shirt for "Support Your Local Dealer".

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    9 months ago

    Lockdown Special: yanchi by Maximilian Prag & Marlene Kager

    The Moon Exhibition Lockdown Special aims to support the creative community during the crisis by connecting them and giving them a platform to express their ideas.

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    9 months ago

    4 CREATIVES - 4 PERSPECTIVES

    The current crisis hits us on a global and on a very individual level simultaneously. While everyone is confronted with the same issue, it affects us on different levels, and we have our own ways of coping. We spoke to four talented women of the creative industries, asking them the same questions, gaining different perspectives. 

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    9 months ago

    Lockdown Special: 404 by 101

    The Moon Exhibition Lockdown Special aims to support the creative community during the crisis by connecting them and giving them a platform to express their ideas.

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    9 months ago

    Lockdown Special: corona.webcam by Janick Entremont

    The Moon Exhibition Lockdown Special aims to support the creative community during the crisis by connecting them and giving them a platform to express their ideas.

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    9 months ago

    17/04: Dezeen Virtual Design Festival hosted by Forward

    Normally, at this point we would usually be going mad preparing the last details for Forward Festival Vienna, which would have taken place next week. Instead, we're all facing unprecedented challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic. While sitting in our home offices and coming up with ideas like the Lockdown Special to try and support our community, there is good news: we are very happy to announce our new date for Vienna and our partnership with Virtual Design Festival on the 17th of April!

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    10 months ago

    Lockdown Special: Digital Magazine by Julian Present

    The Moon Exhibition Lockdown Special aims to support the creative community during the crisis by connecting them and giving them a platform to express their ideas.

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    10 months ago

    Lockdown Special: Liquid Pixels - a tutorial by Derek Kunstmann

    The Moon Exhibition Lockdown Special aims to support the creative community during the crisis by connecting them and giving them a platform to express their ideas.

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    10 months ago

    Eike König at Forward Festival Vienna

    Since we are all stuck inside, we thought it would be a good idea to bring the Forward Festival to your home! Eike König believes education should be for free, therefore his talk is the first one for you to enjoy.

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    10 months ago

    Forward Face Filters

    New festival topics always open up new possibilities for us at Forward. For this year's DIGITAL EYES, we aim to extend your reality with our AR App and now also our with our Instagram face filters. A few days before the first festival, we do not have one but three face filters created by Allan Berger (@ultrakawaii4000) and Maximilian Prag (@maximilianprag). Have a look at them and try them out on our Instagram.

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    a year ago

    DO TOUCH! The need for haptics in digital life

    Humans crave their five basic senses. While sight and hearing get covered quite well in the digital world, smell, touch and taste are often left behind.

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    a year ago

    The woman behind Nike's marketing

    When Drieke Leenknegt started working for Nike, sneakers were something you bought for doing sports, period.  At a time, when there was no such thing as hype around sportswear, when nobody would even have dreamt of people queuing for a pair of shoes.

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    a year ago

    The genius behind the DIGITAL EYES design

    It always starts with a vision, a topic we want to explore. Very soon, we will find ourselves digging for information and being overwhelmed by our own thoughts. That's when we have to gather our inspiration.  This year, we saw shared idea documents and 400MB worth of pictures taken with our phone.

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    a year ago

    Rainer Mutsch's trophy design for ERSTE Bank Open

    The last week in Vienna was all about the country's biggest tennis event: the ERSTE Bank Open 2019. Besides the triumphant win of the Austrian superstar Dominic Thiem, once again the trophies came into the limelight.

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    a year ago

    Why does art matter? Banksy asks, offering originals for the right answer.

    Graffiti artist Banksy says he has been forced to open his own homeware store following a legal dispute involving a greeting cards company. The new store, called Gross Domestic Product sells art, homewares and disappointment to randomly selected buyers who must answer the question: “Why does art matter?”.

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    a year ago

    Rebranding a cultural fortress - Interview with studio VIE

    Lately we haven't been able to get to work without noticing certain posters all over town. With the start of the new season at Burgtheater, quite a lot has changed; not only the program or the people working on it but also the entire look and feel. Less of a fortress, more of a theatre, more inter-, less national. Artistic director Martin Kušej is on a mission to erase the term „Burg“ for Burgtheater - a vision that needed its visual identity to go along with.

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    a year ago

    AR to the people

    AR is becoming constantly more available through face filters on Social Media. What happens when you let people enhance their own reality?  

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    a year ago

    Can design save our world?

    Can design save our planet? As the Amazon rainforests are still burning and other ugly things are happening on earth, designers may ask themselves: how can we have a positive impact through design? By choosing your clients wisely, designing smart disposable packaging and environmental or political campaigns, and thus generally promoting a healthier and happier Earth through design - there are thousands of ways. And more importantly: don't let your head down because of the disappearance of Banksy's Brexit mural in London.

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    2 years ago

    Stefan Sagmeister wants you to stop concentrating on your own happiness

    The world-famous designer and artist has collected virtually every design award. As a product and graphic designer, Bregenz-born Stefan Sagmeister has worked his way up to the very top by mashing up typography and picture language in a fresh, unique and sometimes even provoking manner. Interview by Catherine Hazotte

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    2 years ago

    "I learned never to promise more than I can keep" Interview with Erik Spiekermann

    If you are passionate about typography and design, there is no way around the name of Erik Spiekermann. The Berlin-based creator designed the famous classical font FF Meta and is the author of various typography literature. During his career, he worked on legendary projects like the graphic appearance of the city of Berlin, the control system of Düsseldorf Airport and the corporate design of Volkswagen and Audi. Interview by Catherine Hazotte

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    2 years ago

    Grand Matters & Everpress celebrate Pride

    It’s pride month and EuroPride in Vienna is only a few days away. In celebration of all things pride and to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the retailer Everpress teamed up with artist agency Grand Matter curated a collection of t-shirts. Each t-shirt has been designed by another creative.

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    2 years ago

    Stefan Sagmeister's secret for good ideas featured by #jungbleiben

    Stefan Sagmeister is certainly one of the most innovative and inspiring designers and graphic artists. Known as a "philosopher among designers", he not only designs covers for The Rolling Stones, Jay Z, David Byrne and OK Go but also initiates exciting communication projects. Together with his professional partner Jessica Walsh, he is among the leading agencies as SAGMEISTER & WALSH.

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    2 years ago

    Diving into a Pleasure Foambath at Milano Design Week

    Milano Design Week - Austrian Exhibition turns Sala Reale into Design Pool: Over 40 top designers and manufacturers in the former imperial waiting room – ADVANTAGE AUSTRIA presents “Austrian Design – Pleasure & Treasure”.

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    2 years ago

    The winning posters of the fritz-kola B&W exhibition 2019

    At this year’s Forward Festival in Vienna, Munich and Hamburg, Forward and fritz-kola launched an open call for black and white posters. Out of numerous submissions, we selected 10 that were presented at the festival venues.

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    2 years ago

    Forward Calendar April 2019

    Every month, the Forward Calendar brings you the most important events from our community. In contrast to regular event calendars, we don’t just collect an innumerable amount of exhibitions and conferences taking place in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Our calendar is a collection of the most inspiring events from the Forward universe. The kind of calendar that brings you forward.

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    2 years ago

    In case of sexual harassment: Kelli Anderson designs educational poster

    The posters created by designer, illustrator and artist Kelli Anderson aim to educate people on how to document and report sexual harassment in the workplace. The poster is already hanging in several restaurants on the US West Coast and has been translated into Spanish and Chinese.

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    2 years ago

    Shutterstock's designteam reimagines this year's Best Picture nominees

    In honour of the 91st Oscars the design team of Shutterstock published their annual Oscar Pop! Poster Series. Every designer picked a Best Picture nominee and reimagined the movie poster in the style of a famous pop art artist that resonate with them. But what has Shutterstock to do with all of this? All the used material is from high-quality images, illustrations and vectors available on the platform. That way the artists demonstrate just how inspiring, and downright useful the Shutterstock collection is.

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    2 years ago

    Fall in love with André Saraiva's Hotel Amour

    A hotel can never replace a proper home – it should be better, at least for a few days. According to André Saraiva a good hotel is an experience. André who made himself a name as a graffiti artist with numerous exhibitions and collaborations with fashion houses like Chanel and Louis Vuitton opened his first hotel Hotel Amour in Paris in 2011, followed by the Grand Amour in 2015.

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    2 years ago

    Fighting climate change with bio-digitally designed 'urban curtains'

    London-based ecoLogicStudio is an architectural and urban design practice specialized in environmental design, urban self-sufficiency and building integrated nature. One of their newest project installations is the urban curtain for Climate-KIC, the EU's most prominent climate innovation initiative. The curtain is called Photo.Synth.Etica and was built to capture CO2 from the atmosphere.

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    2 years ago

    French artist Hugo Livet loves his icebergs geometrical

    Hugo Livet, Paris-based artist and designer, made a surprise discovery by NASA to his newest inspiration. He imagined broken off ice-chunks as his raw material to digitally create geometric sculptures, capturing the beautiful structure of those icy giants.

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    2 years ago

    Industrial designer Christophe Guberan is pushing the boundaries of design

    When you talk to Christophe, you soon realize that he doesn’t waste time, which you can also notice in his art and and products. Not content to wait for manufacturing tools and companies to meet his ideas, the industrial designer is part of a new generation of creatives who develop their own production processes. We sat down with Christophe to talk with him about his career, his passion for good products and much more.

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    2 years ago

    Stefan Sagmeister called for beauty and the Viennese creative scene answered

    Monday evening, end of October in Vienna. With some delay, autumn has arrived in the Austrian capital. Nobody is on the streets, because the cold keeps the people in the houses. The only companion on these days is the biting wind that runs over the woolen hats and scarves. But a building next to the Wienfluss in the center of the city is an exception. There, people of all ages are rushing into the large entrance area as if it were the final sale at Zara. However, their interest in this evening is not on fashion but on design. Because the most famous Austrian representative of this branch of industry is in the city. An event that electrifies the masses in Austria.

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    2 years ago

    Real-life 8-bit installation brings Greek ruin in the modern age

    At a 400-year old ruin in the little village of kKgatika on the island of Paxos, German artist duo Quintessenz used over 120 shades of color to create the illusion of digital pixels.

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    2 years ago

    Digital doesn’t get more real than Ken Kelleher’s sculptures

    American sculptor Ken Kelleher is specialized in the creation of large scale digital sculptures around the world. Digital works are set into real landscapes like streets, galleries or small places, and the result seems incredibly real.

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    2 years ago

    Cool Shit makes it able to walk through Bobby Brown’s mind

    Cool Shit strikes again! In their latest work, you can explore the inside of the mind of R&B musician Bobby Brown, who was once married to Whitney Houston.

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    2 years ago

    These are the winning posters of the fritz-kola B&W exhibition

    At this year’s Forward festival in Munich and Hamburg, Forward and fritz-kola launched an open call for black and white posters. Out of numerous submissions, we selected 10 that were presented at the festival venues.

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    2 years ago

    The helium-filled world of balloon artist Jason Hackenwerth

    From the 11th to the 15th of July 2018 an unusual sight presented itself to New Yorkers at the Brookfield Place. Jason Hackenwerth’s exhibition “Animal Soul” stunned children as well as adults.

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    2 years ago

    Must-see guide to the “100 Beste Plakate” exhibition

    This week, we visited the “100 Beste Plakate” exhibition at the MAK, the museum for applied arts in Vienna. We know that 100 posters are just too much. That's why we guide you through the highlights of the exhibition.

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    3 years ago

    Meet 3 of MADE Talent Lab's budding product designers

    In 2017, the furniture retailer MADE.com started an exciting new project named TalentLab. The crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform gives young and emerging designers the chance to see their prototypes realized in large-scale production. We had the chance to get to know Romain Deberle, Shan Penghao and Russel Jarvis, who participated in the first MADE TalentLab collection.  

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    3 years ago

    See the winning posters from the Onlineprinters Poster Exhibition 2018

    At this year’s Forward Festival in Vienna and Zurich Onlineprinters and Forward launched an open call for posters focusing on the 2018 festival topic "Construct - Deconstruct." Out of numerous applications we selected 10 posters that were exhibited at the festival venues.

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    3 years ago

    What’s in it for me, Adobe XD? Is it free?

    So…what’s in it for me, Adobe XD? Is it free? Yes it is! Just recently, the May update for Adobe XD has been released with a big bang: introducing the new Starter plan, you can now work with Adobe XD fast, easy – and for free!

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    3 years ago

    Join the challenge: Adobe Stock Creative Jam x Forward Festival

    Intriguing lectures, inspiring artists, great networking opportunities: This year’s Forward Festival kickoff in April in Vienna was a full success. One of many highlights: The Adobe Stock Creative Jam event, a competition in which ten pre-selected teams had the chance to prove their creative skills.

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    3 years ago

    In the future “products will reflect the small spaces that we are living in”

    The Scottish design director Ruth Wassermann runs one of the most intriguing platforms for budding designers in the moment. She is the head of design of MADE's new crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform TalentLab, where young designers can submit projects that they would like to see realized. We had the chance to sit down with Ruth and talk with her about the idea behind TalentLab, the first collection and her vision for the future of living.

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    3 years ago

    Trend report from Milan Design Week

    During the Milan Design Week the city in Northern Italy is in a state of emergency. Every year, the world's largest furniture fair and countless exhibitions, installations and design events attract interior fans and design enthusiasts from around the world to Milan. The industrial designer Rainer Mutsch was there this year and summarized the latest trends of the Milan Design Week 2018 for us.

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    3 years ago

    MADE TalentLAB: Get to know the future of product design

    MADE started its crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platform TalentLAB at the end of 2017, asking young and emerging designers to submit projects that they would like to see realized. Designers upload their proposals to the website. MADE then curates collections from these designs and the products that prove most popular and will get funding, will be put into production.  We sat down with three designers, who participate in the first TalentLAB collection, and talked with them about their products, their background and much more.

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    3 years ago

    Cool Shit makes Kanye West happy

    Since the year 2014 the musician Kanye West has been unhappy. The Spanish creative art studio Cool Shit couldn't live with that anymore and made it their mission to change his state of mind. Therefore, they created a seven-meter-tall inflatable head of a grinning Kanye with the sole purpose of having you go inside and make him happy again.

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    3 years ago

    MoMA's Senior Curator Paola Antonelli talks about design in the change of time

    At the Forward Festival 2017 Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator and Director of R&D at the MoMA in New York, told us about how exhibitions, fashion and the role of museums changed over time.

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    3 years ago

    Vinicius Araujo’s Alphabet fuses Helvetica with the world's most iconic brands

    Vinicius Araújo is a graphic designer based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil who’s taken inspiration from Helvetica for his latest project, 36days Electronics.

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    3 years ago

    The living room is becoming a dead zone

    Privacy-encouraging furniture is gaining popularity, as it provides complete isolation to the user in any room.

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    3 years ago

    Viennese craftsmanship: J. & L. Lobmeyr

    The MOMA in New York collects it, star chef Alain Ducasse serves it, the best designers create it, and people all over the world treasure it everyday: glassware made by Vienna manufacturer J. & L. Lobmeyr sparks universal fascination.

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    3 years ago

    "The biggest mistake is not trying"

    You probably have heard of hackathons, where IT-aficionados are competing against each other under time pressure. The team behind the Designathon took this paradigm and translated it into the world of design.

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    3 years ago

    Let your music come to life with this holographic turntable

    This year marks the 140th anniversary of the phonograph, the brainchild of inventor Thomas Edison. It transformed the face of music, and to pay tribute, the guys from Kozmophone wanted to bring that iconic shape back. What Edison might have never forseen is that one day his invention would also include a holographic display.

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    3 years ago

    Viennese craftsmanship: Woka Lamps

    Woka Lamps Vienna stands for timeless design, elegant yet characterized by formal simplicity.

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    3 years ago

    Patrick Sluiter creates 3D figures entrenched in quiet melancholy

    His characters are smooth, soft-hued and sometimes weirdly sexual, an aesthetic niche he’s cleverly carved to make them instantly recognisable.

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    3 years ago

    Birgit Palma and Daniel Triendl from Adobe’s #ModularLettering workshop on creativity and teamwork

    At this year’s Forward Festivals our attendants were able to join the #ModularLettering workshop presented by Adobe. In this interactive workshop everyone was working collaboratively on an illustrated alphabet, using photos and flat graphics.

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    4 years ago

    This colorful basketball court in Paris is a real eyecatcher

    Creative directors Ill-Studio and fashion label Pigalle together with sport brand Nike have redesigned a basketball court sandwiched into a row of buildings in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.

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    4 years ago

    MINI explores the creative idea-finding at the Forward Festivals

    An idea begins with curiosity. With being on the move, seeking inspiration. Sometimes we need time to reflect on an idea for it to sink in, hit another idea and become something bigger. In searching for the new, our imaginations become tangible.

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    4 years ago

    X1: On everyone’s lips

    She came into the world in 1995, and was soon featured in fashion and lifestyle magazines, loved by photographers and readers alike. A film career followed, including appearances in “Sex & the city”, “Spiderman” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”.

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    4 years ago

    PAGE and corporate design expert Jochen Rädeker host two-day seminar

    Good design needs no explanation. Quite the opposite in fact. Tests at the Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics have found that as soon as a subject needs to be told why he or she likes something its rating falls.

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    4 years ago

    SUPERSENSE’s analog room at the 25hours Hotel Langstrasse

    For almost two years SUPERSENSE has worked on realizing a common dream together with the 25hours hotel group: Developing the most analog hotel in the world!

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    4 years ago

    Chinese hotel for Millennials impresses with custom-made artwork

    Shanghai studio X+Living has designed a new hotel targeting a younger crowd with artwork and modern interior design. The Wheat Youth Arts Hotel is located on the seventh floor of a shopping mall in the Binjiang district of Hangzhou.

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    4 years ago

    Charles Pétillon's bizarre photographs with giant balloons and abandoned landscapes

    Huge fabric balloons invade concrete buildings and abandoned landscapes in this series of images by French artist Charles Pétillon. The artist took several spherical balloons, in different sizes, and wrapped them in an variety of fabrics.

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    4 years ago

    Road-sign inspired typeface Montefiore by Colophon Foundry gets a relaunch

    Colophon Foundry has re-released its typeface Montefiore, which was first created in 2009 and created a new specimen to sit alongside the launch. “Montefiore was originally drawn in our student days at Brighton University. The road signage in Hove, East Sussex was unlike standardised UK road signage,” explains Colophon.

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    4 years ago

    Spot On: Lausanne-based designer Nizar Kazan

    Lausanne-based designer Nizar Kazan sees his work as similar to that of an engineer tackling projects as problems to be solved and using materials to compose a solution. “Since I was young I’ve been passionate about things to do with the aeronautics, rail and automotive industry, engineering and philosophy,” explains Nizar.

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    4 years ago

    ManvsMachine celebrates Air Max Day

    The Nike Air Max was launched in 1987 and has gone on to become one of the most famous sneaker designs of all time. For Air Max Day 2017, ManvsMachine was commissioned to celebrate 30 years of Air Max with a huge campaign.

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    4 years ago

    Spot On: New York Times designer Ben Grandgenett

    “Working at the magazine is a constant collaborative process, between the various departments or between the range of artists, illustrations and photographers we work with each week,” says Ben on his practice. “My day to day routine varies from designing feature stories and front-of-book pages, commissioning illustrators and conceptualising approaches for upcoming stories or issues.”

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    4 years ago

    Ron Arad redesigns iconic illycaffé cups

    The British-Israeli designer has teamed up with Italian coffee brand illy to redesign its iconic coffee cups as part of the illy Art Collection. Usually known for his rough, metal-based, industrial designs Ron Arad takes on a different stance for this special collection.

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    4 years ago

    Novum's March edition has 12,500 unique cover versions

    For the March edition of the German design magazine “novum”, more than 12,500 individual cover versions were created in an elaborate procedure. This was made possible through a unique collaboration between Studio Marcus Kraft and J.E. Wolfensberger AG – both located in Zurich.

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