George-Shapterlarge1 Credit: George Shapter
A University of Cambridge graduate who taught himself graphic design has won this year's Face of the Festival competition to design the Festival of Ideas programme cover. "The theme really caught my imagination. It opened up a lot of possibilities. I studied surrealism as part of my History of Art degree and I found the surrealists' interest in the subconscious dream world fascinating."" - A self-taught graphic designer has won a competition to come up with a cover for this year's Festival of Ideas programme based on the theme of Dreams and Nightmares. Programmes are available across Cambridge and online from this week and are packed full of over 170 events, most of them free. Its cover is designed by George Shapter, a 21-year-old History of Art graduate, who has no formal design training, although he and a fellow Cambridge graduate have recently set up a design company called Qip Creative. His winning design depicts a sleeping woman surrounded by origami boats and birds with a huge origami spider crawling towards her.
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