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.

 

Eine Stunde mit: Johannes Erler

 

 

For the second edition of our event series, we are happy to welcome Johannes Erler. The designer is one of the leading masterminds in the German illustration- and creative scene and one of the founding members of the agency Factor Design, which lastingly changed the art of visual communication in Germany. After leaving Factor design, he founded the EST (ErlerSkibbeTönsmann) agency and was the responsible art director for reviving the weekly magazine “stern”. Up until today the scholar of Lo Breuer, Neville Brody and Erik Spiekermann shapes the German design scene with his bald and direct approach.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 30.11.2018, 18:00
Place: Supersense GmbH, Vienna
More Infos here!

 

FYI: Conference for Information Design

 

 

The conference for information design sets out for signal technology, data visualization, UX-design, illustrative as well as journalistic information graphics. It is meant to be a starting point for more visibility of information design in Vienna. It will be a small but nice event for creative heads and info design geeks!

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 10.11.2018
Place: Nordbahn Halle, Vienna
More info here

 

Forum Creative Industries – Festival

 

 

The international Festival for Creative Industries and Innovation, FORUM CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, celebrates its 5th anniversary. This years festival takes place in Linz, at one of the most inspiring creative hubs in Austria – the Tabakfabrik. It’s a big meetup for the creative community holding workshops, international keynotes, talks, Q&A sessions as well as networking activities.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 03.12.18 – 11.12.2018
Place: Tabakfabrik, Linz
More info here

 

Forum Creative Industries – Workshops

 

 

The workshops provided during the Festival are opportunities to sharpen your skills and and engage in cutting edge information. Developments in the fields of marketing, communication and new ways of work in the fields of design thinking are presented and examined.

 

Forward got you an exclusive discount code for the workshops: FWD4FCI

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 03.12.18 – 07.12.2018
Place: Tabakfabrik, Linz
More info here

 

Creative Industries Styria – Styrian Products

 

 

The exhibition “Styrian Products – Design from Styria” shows approximately 40 works of Styrian designers working internationally. The selection of products ranges from fashion & accessories to furniture, interior design and industrial product & package design. It shows vigorous examples of the design driven value chain “created in Styria – produced in Styria – sold worldwide”

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 22.11.18 – 30.11.2018
Place: XTEC, Innovationspark 2, St. Margareten/Raab
More info here

 

Between Arts and Spaces. The Creative Practices of City Making

 

The three projects showcased in the exhibition will shed light on different points of view on creative practices of city making. Especially the cultural policies, education and research, city planning and narratives of participation. It functions as a “living archive” activating the debate. It is part of the exhibition “Social Design”.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 07.11.2018, 18:00
Place: Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich
More info here

 

designaustria – Training Program

 

As a knowledge center, designaustria regularly provides training programs available for designaustria members as well as those interested in design. The programs provide opportunities to gain knowledge, be inspired by like-minded people, gain know-how and network. The motto is: Move yourself! Improve yourself!

 

HARD FACTS

Date: November 2018
More info here

 

designaustria – Exhibition Joseph Binder Award 2018

 

The Joseph Binder Award is the only internationally advertised design competition in the field of graphic design & illustration. 461 graphic designers from 38 countries submitted their works. 71 were shortlisted. 8 designers won the gold award, 12 of them silver and 4 were awarded bronze. The exhibition shows the 71 shortlisted works of 2018. A feast of colour and form.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 10.11.2018- 27.01.2018
Place: design forum, Vienna
More info here

 

Creative Industries Styria – Showcase 2018

 

 

“Showcase 2018” is an exhibition that shows the results of the interesting as well as successful projects implemented during the course of “CIS-Design Transfer”, a linking format of Creatives Industries Styria. Multiple design and architectural studios created stunning pieces and works in cooperation with local carpentries and other regional providers.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 08.11.18 – 09.12.2018
Place: designforum Steiermark, Graz
More info here

 

World Usability Day 2018 in Hamburg

 

The main focus of this year’s World Usability Day is “Design for Good or Evil”. At the HAW Hamburg, the Campus for Arts and Media, experts in the fields of user experience hold lectures concerning this topic. The attendance is for free! The WUD (World Usability Day) is organized by Hamburg based agency eparo in cooperation with the HAW Hamburg. Besides the pros of UX the downsides of the “Dark UX” will be tackled as well.

 

HARD FACTS

Date: 08.11.2018
Place: Kunst- und Mediencampus, Hamburg
More info here