From the time BTC decided to localise its phone book cover design, the competition, which is managed by arts authority, Thapong, had been open to all artists regardless of their ages. However, for the 2013 Cover book design the competition will be restricted to 13-16 school-going and out-of-school youth.The first prize is P10, 000, followed by P7, 000 and P5, 000 for second and third place winners respectively. According to information by both the BTC and Thapong, the theme for the 2013 phone book cover design is 'Telecommunications and me'.
Artwork can be in any of painting, drawing, graphic design, photography, and must depict both the BTC and be mobile brands, as well as being in line with the theme.Entries that must be delivered to Thapong Visual Arts Centre close on September 14.
This year's phone book cover design was won by Monkgogi Samson, a graphic designer who won the hearts of the judges with his creative merging of the role of BTC in transforming Botswana's ICT infrastructure in rural and urban areas.Sampson's work, which beat more than 70 entries, proudly decorates the BTC cover page, but he may be the last adult artist to grace the telephone directory now that the BTC and Thapong have decided it is high time they reserved the competition to young school-going and out-of-school 13-16 year-olds.Interestingly though, while the last year's winner pocketed P25, 000 this year's winner will take home P10, 000.
