Hat Fair 2010!

Tom Rainford of Winchester School of Art, receiving his prize from Sian Thomas, director of Winchester Hat Fair, for his winning poster and programme cover design for 2010. Briefed in by David Cradduck of Cradduck Design, the project produced some amazingly creative and mature work. Needless to say, Hat Fair were delighted too.

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Winchester Hat Fair is Britain’s longest running Festival of Street Theatre and Outdoor Arts.  

As ever, Hat Fair will continue to uphold its reputation for presenting innovative and beautiful outdoor performances, exciting, unique and highly skilled small-scale shows and an engaging programme of community arts and education, woven into the heart of the beautiful city of Winchester.

This is the first year that Cradducks have been involved in the Hat Fair but it follows a natural path established over the past couple of years where Cradducks produce self-funding publications for local events like the Alresford Watercress Festival and a series of pocket guides for such towns as Alresford, Bishops Waltham, Wickham and Winchester. David has been personally involved in the Hat fair project as he sold the advertising space for the programme to local traders, restaurants, shops and businesses. "The response was fantastic: I was really taken aback by the number of organisations who wanted to participate from out of town eateries to large local organisations. It has made the project economically viable."

The 36 page programme is available free two weeks before the event itself (which runs from 1st to the 4th July) and will also be available online - follow the link on Hat Fair's homepage.

As well as Tom's winning design, Owen Jones (second from right), runner up in the competition and fellow student at WSA, has been helping Cradducks put the content of the programme together on a freelance basis.