A GLASGOW teenager was yesterday celebrating after her design was chosen from thousands of entries to be the official logo for the 1997 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Hanne Barr, 17, until recently a pupil at Boclair Academy, Glasgow, scooped top prize in the contest with a collage depicting three performing harlequins. Her win scooped a #750 prize for her school and a #250 award for herself from the contest sponsors, the Fringe programme printers Macdonald Lindsay Pindar.
The picture will appear on the 1997 Fringe programme and on posters and merchandise promoting this year's Fringe.
Hanne, who is moving to London to take up a place on an art foundation course at St Martin's College, said the work had been inspired by a school visit to Edinburgh last summer.
''I went to the Festival last year with my English class. I liked the posters and harlequins are my favourite thing, so I thought I'd like to do something colourful and energetic,'' she said.
''When my art teacher said the poster had made the last four, I just told everyone I'd be coming fourth. I really didn't expect to win.''
Almost 4,000 entries were received from schoolchildren in 142 schools from Shetland to the Borders in the contest to depict the 1997 Fringe.
More than 200 of the best will be exhibited at the Edinburgh College of Art during the Fringe in August.
The top four designs and three highly commended entrants were presented with their prizes at a ceremony in Edinburgh.
Second place went to Lorna Aird, 13, a pupil at Knox Academy, Haddington, while third place was scooped by Sasha Taylor, 11, a pupil at the High School of Glasgow. Lanarkshire teenager Vicki Davis, 14, a pupil at Hamilton Grammar School was fourth.
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