Harare International
Festival of the Arts (HIFA)

“HIFA is a 6-day annual festival and workshop programme that showcases the very best of local, regional and international arts and culture in a comprehensive festival programme of theatre,dance, music, circus, street performance, fashion, spoken word and visual arts. HIFA has come to be seen as an important symbol of something positive about Zimbabwe, unifying socially and culturally disparate groups of Zimbabweans at a time of ideological conflict and political uncertainty bringing huge audiences together to celebrate something positive – the healing and constructive capacity of the arts.”

Each year, from 2000 to 2008, I did all the design work for this amazing festival – a different theme for each year. This included the programme, posters, postcards, tickets, signage, merchandising and occasionally, something unusual like the stamps featured, left.

As this project involved several months of concentrated work, I hired a small freelance team to work with me each year.

Also shown below are various posters, postcards and programme covers.