Creative Crisis – Forward Festival by Hayley CantorCreative Crisis – Forward Festival by Hayley Cantor

Creative Crisis – Forward Festival

Hayley Cantor

Hayley Cantor

Winning entry for creative crisis competition 2020
Winning entry for creative crisis competition 2020

Creative crisis – Forward festival

In 2020, Forward Festival (in collaboration with Online Printers) launched an open call for posters focusing on the one topic that has never been more accurate than in 2020: Creative Crisis. They asked creatives what they were doing during Corona lockdown? What was their inspiration, who was their muse? They wanted to see how a worldwide crisis made people creative and how COVID-19 affected their artwork. I was among the top 10 winners of the competition, with my work shown in Vienna, Berlin and Frankfurt.
It's real animation
Stretch & flex animation

⌇CONCEPT

I represented a word or phrase that resonated with me each day through typographic animation, which I then adapted into a grid to represent the feeling of the lockdown. As one of the10 posters selected, this poster was exhibited at Forward Festival Vienna. 
Series of individual posters
Series of individual posters
⌇ ANIMATION FRAMES
⌇ ANIMATION FRAMES
⌇ONSITE PHOTOGRAPHY: NIKLAS SCHNAUBELT​​​​​​​
⌇ONSITE PHOTOGRAPHY: NIKLAS SCHNAUBELT​​​​​​​
Fuck, what?
Frames from the animated poster
Frames from the animated poster
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Posted Apr 23, 2026

Winning entry for Forward Festivals Creative Crisis Competition in collaboration with Online Printers.