An Open Call For Design Feedback at The Forward Festival Online

Acclaimed designer Stefan Sagmeister will offer guidance to emerging creatives at this inaugural event

Sponsored by the Forward Festival

As part of the inaugural Forward Festival Online (12-13 March), acclaimed Austrian design storyteller and typographer Stefan Sagmeister will headline an inspirational talk about the division of design and art, and the anchors of functionality and purpose. Sagmeister’s vision is uncompromising, be that his contributions to the design and art direction of a watch we’ve long cherished, the Ressence Type 3X, or the whimsy of his reflective Illy …

Premiere: “Water is Life” by Holly Miranda

A collaborative track, born from years of charity and protest performances, with proceeds going to Project Zero

With 100% off the proceeds from Bandcamp going to the science-backed ocean conservation and protection non-profit, Project Zero, singer-songwriter Holly Miranda’s “Water is Life” does more than burst forth from speakers. The jam-bandy, chant-channeling track—born of collaboration, protest and performance—aims to do good for the world on many levels. Its message is one worthing singing out. “This song was written in 2016 during a charity event …

Producer Photay’s New, Ethereal Album Based on Captured Audio

The 13-track album transforms hold music and spotlights the "magic within the mundane"

By producer Photay (aka Evan Shornstein), the 13-track album On Hold—out on streaming and vinyl via Mexican Summer on 5 March—highlights the “richness in the mundane,” the artist explains. While touring in 2018, Shornstein spent just over a month recording snippets of surprisingly beautiful hold music during his downtime between sets—in airports, hotel rooms and over a friend’s shoulder while they called to report credit …