Telkom Convergence Campaign 2013 Winners

In October 2013 second-year Graphic Design students were asked to interpret ‘Telkom Convergence” in the form of a design. This competition challenged the students creatively and intellectually as well as teaching them to work with a client –the Telkom Art Collection in this case. Participants were invited to create design works in any medium they chose, including sculpture, poster, art on paper, painting, mixed media or electronics. To assist them, while also promoting recycling, Telkom gave each student blue boxes and frames to use for the competition. Participants were given two weeks, until 12 November, to complete their entries and fifteen finalists were then selected by the panel of judges, consisting of University of Johannesburg lecturers and the Telkom Art Curator. The finalists’ entries were then posted on the Telkom Facebook page where visitors could vote for their favourite works. While three of the winners were chosen by popular vote, a fourth prize was awarded for an exceptional design work, as chosen by the Telkom Art Collection. Mala Suriah, Executive for Strategic Enterprise Marketing at Telkom Business, handed out the prizes to the four winners at the annual Graphic Design prize-giving ceremony at FADA.