YISF Poster Competition 2025

Many thanks to students from York St John University, who designed a number of posters for this year’s festival! We displayed a selection of shortlisted posters throughout the festival period, and audiences voted on these four finalists.

YISF 2025 Poster designed by Niamh Osbourne - on a bright pink background, with lots of bright colour and handwritten-style words saying York International Shakespeare Festival, is a large donkey head with makeup being put on by tiny fairies.
YISF 2025 Poster designed by Dani Lamb - a dark image of a figure in red, surrounded by white, wispy figures. A red handprint is at the top center of the image, and at top left are the words York International Shakespeare Festival.
YISF 2025 Poster designed by Felipe Famil De Almeida - features a large, naked, yellow man with a donkey head, in a crouched position against the word Shakespeare.
YISF 2025 Poster designed by Martha Hill - features three triangular witch figures in black on top of a red and black hill. Text in the bottom left corner in red with white tips says York International Shakespeare Festival.