The best (and worst) Glastonbury Festival posters over the ages

Glastonbury Festival branding
(Image credit: Glastonbury Festival)

Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm is one of the world's most legendary music events, offering five days of music, pagan rituals and toilet horror stories. People always question the lineup, but who goes to Glasto for the lineup? The festival is as legendary for what happens away from the main stage as much as for any big names who might happen to play. And the Glastonbury Festival poster designs and Glastonbury logo perfectly encapsulate that.

Glastonbury is so famous, and tickets sell so fast, that it perhaps doesn't need to do much in terms of brand design, and often it hasn't. Glastonbury posters have ranged from the iconic to the unreadable over the years (see our pick of the best and worst further below), and yet the festival has forged a recognisable visual identity while avoiding modernising too far (see our roundup of the best poster designs for more inspiration).

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Joe Foley

Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.