Design Observer: writings about design & culture So there we were. Standing in a vast field at the Worthy Farm, the home of the Glastonbury Festival, armed with a laptop, rain pouring down, sodden jeans, welly boots welded to our feet, the ground turning into molasses before our eyes. Our mission: to produce a special edition of the Guardian newspaper’s G2 daily features section, reporting on all aspects of the festival. We had three days, from the start of proceedings on the Friday, till around noon on the Sunday, by which time we had to have sent our pages back to Guardian HQ. But how? How do you capture the feeling of your senses being numbed by the heavenly punishment of dirt, music, art, people, performance, rain, insomnia, cider and exhaustion whilst being simultaneously kicked out of the sleepy trudge of day to day life? And from my point of view as G2’s art director, could the design do justice to an event of such magnitude?
