Guildford Festival of the Arts is a brand new, grassroots, community-led celebration of visual arts, offering a platform for local and emerging artists to showcase and celebrate their work within an inclusive and accessible environment.

As Creative Director for the inaugural 2025 event, the role has involved developing a complete visual identity from the ground up, including a bespoke logo, custom typeface, and a detailed brand book, not to mention a whole host of merch and products. Working directly with the founders, the creative direction was shaped to reflect the festival’s ambition to deliver bold, accessible, and inclusive arts programming to the local community.

Once all core design work was complete - spanning print, digital, and environmental assets - a fantastic team of social designers was taken on board and managed, with the team taking responsibility for producing all social media content and website. With the first edition taking place this September 2025, we are so looking forward to the first of many events to come for Guildford Festival of the Arts!

The Guildford Festival of the Arts design team is made up of awesome creative humans: Milo Ebsworth, Beth Ebsworth and Madeline Drought.

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