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Show Old World Portrait featured in Festival publications "This year the chosen portait of William Shakespeare is done in the style of an etching. All the illustrations which I have drawn project this same drawing style and capture the Old World feeling," said Peter Cooke, designer of the brochure and program for this year's Utah Shakespearean Festival. Cooke is a junior at Southern Utah State College and has been working for the past year on the drawings and layouts for this year's printed materials. Each year the Festival's publications are coordinated using a different portrait of Shakespeare. After the portrait is completed, logos and typefaces for each play are chosen and other materials such as seating charts, schedules and an area map are organized into the layout for the borchure. This year's brochure will be the first to be produced in color and includes ' brief descriptions of the three plays, KING LEAR, ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. It also includes information regarding the seminars, green shows, backstage tours, green show festivities, group services, baby sitting service and the afternoon Renaissance music concerts. Capturing the slogan of this year's Festival, "the past invites your presence," Cooke has successfully pulled together layout, drawing and design in all of the Festivals' publications. Once the brochure is completed, com-pleted, he begins to work on the Festival program. The programs are prized by Festival attenders and all of the materials reflect the visual character of Elizabethan England. While the written in- PETER COOK. The artist behind the program and brochure for the Utah Shakespearean Festival is SUSC Peter Cook. Cook does many of the drawings and coordinates type styles and layout . design for the festival's publications. formation for the Festival is handled ' by other Festival members, Cooke supervises the process and makes the decisions on color and layout. This year's study guide includes in its introduction in-troduction a line drawing of an Elizabethan ship done by Cooke and a second drawing depicts the mode of travel by the court from London to Windsor along the Thames River. The study is prepared annually as a service to educators and has become a very popular publication of the Festival. When the face of William Shakespeare catches your eye in various places in Cedar City this summer, when you notice the interesting in-teresting typefaces and colors of the programs and brochures at this year's plays - appreciate Peter Cooke's talents and contributions con-tributions to this year's Festival and the city. |