Meet the Staff: Gavin Worth

And now a welcome letter from our eternally gifted Fringe Art Director Gavin Worth…

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Hi Fringers!

Picture this: San Francisco, 2007. It was a freezing cold night in the dead of winter. A lonesome saxophone plays somewhere in the distance. A poor (yet ruggedly handsome) artist sits at his drafting table working furiously: drawing, erasing, redrawing. All of a sudden, he jumps to his feet and yells “Eureka! I’ve got it!” He lifts up a sheet of paper with five strange figures drawn on it. He looks at them solemnly, and says, “You will be the new mascots for the Hollywood Fringe Festival.” That poor (yet ruggedly handsome) artist was me. Those strange figures were the Fringe Freaks, which you’ve probably seen on on the Fringe website, on postcards, and even running down Hollywood Boulevard.

I’m Gavin Worth, the Art Director of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. I started working with the amazing Fringe team way back in 2007 and was responsible for coming up with the branding and design of all things Fringe. It’s been amazing experience so far… it was simply awesome to see everything come to fruition in 2010, and we have even bigger plans for 2011. You’ll be seeing the Fringe Freaks popping up in even more places: think huge Freak mural on Santa Monica, among other things. I can’t wait to make it, and I can’t wait to see the amazing things that everyone in the Fringe community is going to make in Hollywood this June.

Also, feel free to check out some of the artwork I do on my website at www.gavinworth.com. And to answer the question that I keep getting: yes, I’m still ruggedly handsome, but I have an even better haircut than I did in 2007.

Happy Fringing everyone!

Gavin