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Corita Kent was in a religious order and an art teacher but mostly she is known as the “Pop Art Nun”. In November 2018, she would have turned 100 years old and her artistic work proves: political activism comes in all shapes and sizes – even in a nun's robe.

"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.

The DJ duo collaborated with visual artists Lichterloh to release their new video Aliénore D´Aquitaine - a track about one of the most powerful women during the Middle Ages. Minimalistic design colludes with Austrian Apparel´s signature sound.  

Since people in many parts of the world can't go outside and enjoy nature and art, Olafur Eliasson lets you bring both within your own walls.

Every month, Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical gems handpicked by creatives, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. Find out what music Stefan Sagmeister, Erik Kessels, Annie Atkins and Snask amongst others listen to!

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

In times of travel restrictions, we get more used to the sound of birds singing than that of airplanes flying overhead. Forward Festival speakers Erik Kessels and Anthony Burrill collaborated with Malcolm Goldie to provide us with the ultimate, yet disturbing, mix of both.

Every month, the Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical gems hand-picked by friends, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. This special edition was curated by the team behind the Forward Festival to keep you productive at the home office.

We are all affected by the current situation, therefore not only companies, but also people in the creative industries are offering their services for free to help overcome boredom during the lockdown. One of those creatives is Gary Hustwit, director of the film "RAMS", which we showed at last years Forward Festival Vienna.

The current situation is hard enough already but it is even harder if you have financial problems due to the circumstances. This is why we want to help out our community in the creative industries not only by connecting them and giving them a platform but also by supporting them a little bit financially.

Every month, the Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical gems hand-picked by friends, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. This special edition was curated by the team behind the Forward Festival to make the current (almost) worldwide lockdown more bearable.

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.

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.

160 trees on 7 floors - that is what IKEA is hoping to achieve for its newest store in the center of Vienna. Modeled on a bookshelf, it will be an open, friendly building with lots of greenery on all four sides of the facade and on the roof, which will be accessible to everyone.

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.

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.

This year’s Forward Festival is digital, analog and yet, it is anything but binary. It embraces both the pre-internet and the post-internet brain. To represent this year's festival motto DIGITAL EYES we invited various speaker who either specialize in digital or analog to show the best of both worlds. Meet our ambassadors:

2020 is off to a good start. Eike König, graphic designer and founder of Berlin creative collective HORT,  hits the spot with statements that question our digital society in an aesthetic but constructive way.

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.

What happens when you make an algorithm hallucinate?

We are already in holiday mode here at Forward, so our team collected their alltime-favourite Christmas ads to get you all festive as well. Enjoy our little collection and Happy Holidays!

What seems like pictures from another decade turn out to be pictures from not even two months ago. As one of the last European countries, Austria has finally introduced its indoor smoking ban by the 1st of November 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.

Every month, the Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical pearls hand-picked by friends, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. The 20th edition is curated by Forward Festival speaker Barnaby Steel of Marshmallow Laser Feast.  

A few years back, Berlin was famous for it's thriving and diverse club scene. But times and politics changed and now the city is marked by the closing of numerous clubs and other cultural establishments. Over a quite long period Berlin experienced the last party, the last event or the last happening at a location almost every weekend.

In early November, artist Helmut Smits launched his latest project: Screen Time – and no, that's not your next app to track the time you spend in front of your display.

Celebrating the release of the new Album by Austrian cloud rapper Yung Hurn, we are taking a closer look at the associated campaign for the upcoming tour.

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.

“Brainstorming is ten people in a room masturbating – slightly embarrassing and always messy at the end”

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.

Every month, the Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical pearls hand-picked by friends, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. The 19th edition is curated by Forward Festival speaker Erik Kessels.  

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

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.

For the Forward Festival season 2019, Raj Davsi and The Mill surprised us with their incredible film for our Main Title Sequence. Within two days the film was awarded the Vimeo Staff Pick and last week at Berlin Commercial it won the award for Best Animation. Now it's time to take a look behind the scenes and find out how Raj and his team brought the odd panther to life.

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.

Every month, the Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical pearls hand-picked by friends, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. The 18th edition is curated by Forward Festival speaker Anthony Burrill.  

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.

Every month, the Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical pearls hand-picked by friends, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. The 17th edition is curated by Forward Festival speaker Max Siedentopf.  

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.

Max Siedentopf surprised us with an odd video: He's playing popstar Sigrid while running enthusiastically through a Sound Of Music scenery while lip-syncing "Hey, it's alright if we don't end up together 'cause you're mine right now".

Every month, the Forward Magazine brings you a selection of musical pearls hand-picked by friends, musicians, speakers of the Forward Festival and many more. The 16th edition is curated by the founder of Forward Othmar Handl  

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.

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.

At Forward Festival Vienna, Kate Morros not only tackled topics about their work in general but took the chance to talk about important issues like how money matters in the creative industries.

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.

Raw, unfiltered, provocative – just a few words that come to one’s mind while looking at the artistic work of Larry Clark. Regardless of whether it is about his photography or his films, the expressive images move anybody and everyone has their opinion. His main motive is youth culture and everything regarding it, from sexuality and violence to skateboards and drugs.

Gebhart latest work A Guide To Better Being draws attention to the art of inventing practical but useless tools - called Chindōgu. Chin..what? Chindōgu is Japanese and literally means "useless/weird tool". The term was coined in the 90ies by Kenji Kawakami who used it in his comical section in his monthly magazine Mail Order Life. Popularised in the English-speaking community through Kawakami's and Dan Papia's magazine Tokyo Journal, a fan base for odd tools grew steadily. Chindōgu as such is the perfect balance between creativity and absurdity.

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”.

Vienna, the capital of Austria, has been rebranded - a new visual identity and brand strategy that aims to serve its citizens, as well as its increasing number of tourists.

The fire of Notre-Dame de Paris - "Our Lady of Paris" - profoundly shocked not only the French but the whole world. As the smoke cleared, billionaires already bid high sums for the rebuilding of the iconic church. French Luxury conglomerates - as the owner of Kering (Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga, ...) pledged € 100 million and LVMH (Louis Vuitton, Dior, Givenchy) € 200 million. Currently, the funds pass the € 600 million mark with the help of Apple and other international brands.

It’s a wrap! Over 3.250 visitors, 3 days, 2 locations, more than 60 speakers and a lot of oddness – that was Forward Festival 2019 in Vienna.

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.

Budweiser is reimagining some of its historically sexist ads. In honor of International Women’s Day, the masculine brand revisited three of their adverts from the ’50s and ’60s that they are not exactly proud of. This campaign officially kicks off Budweiser’s membership with #SeeHer, a movement to improve the positive portrayal of women in advertising.

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.

Great Britain is known for it’s grey and rainy weather, but where there’s rain, there might also be a rainbow. In this case a very colourful and shimmering rainbow: The drag queens and LGBTQI party-goers. Photographer Charley Williams portrays the queer community of her hometown Bristol, one of the most progressive and vibrant places in Britain. She manages to catch this liberating spirit in her work.

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.

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.

On February 19th 2019 fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld passed away. The 85-year old always made a big secret out of his real age and as we know now, as well of his physical health. Already in January speculations were made, because of his absence at the Chanel Haute Couture Fashion Show in Paris.

For someone working in the creative industry it is inevitable to have a representative portfolio, in the best case even one that stand out. But something unique can be very expensive and especially young artists and designers can’t afford to invest so much time and money in it. Therefore Ji Lee, a designer who works on creative strategy at Facebook and Instagram found a tool used by us on everyday bases and repurposed it. The tool or platform we are talking about is Instagram.

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.

Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District got a new addition to it’s waterfront. Kowloon is very well known for it’s abundant supply in culture and entertainment, a hub for arts and culture. Therefore the appropriate neighbourhood for an opera house.

There is one song that you can listen to in eternal loop and never get sick off. Even after nearly 40 years it remains a hit – and probably will be until the end of time. No matter the age of the audience, when this song comes up everyone will get ecstatic. You maybe guessed it and yes, it obviously is Toto’s 'Africa'.

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.

Since the creation of the Star Wars universe in 1977, it has cast a spell on millions of fans all over the galaxy – and the mania that came along just doesn’t seem to wear off. The team around George Lucas kickstarted a new creative era for Hollywood, but the individual artists involved in the original trilogy almost never appeared in the center of attention.