This year the international image agency StockFood, specialists in food photography, is 30 years old. And 30 years was also the upper age limit for young advertising designers entering the famous FAB Futures Award 2009, sponsored by StockFood for the second time. Now the judges have decided on ‘the most promising designer’ in the FAB Awards, the biggest international design competition in the field of Food and Beverage. The winner of the FAB Futures Award 2009 is Miguel Castanheira, a young advertising copywriter and designer from Portugal, born in 1983. His advertisement for a fictitious pasta brand was particularly original. Castanheira was presented with his prize this weekend at the celebrated FAB Awards dinner in London.
Alongside this talented 26-year-old, two other candidates made it to the shortlist. Their work was also introduced to an audience of international professionals in the field at the FAB Awards dinner. Andi Yanto of Australia, who was born in 1985, was selected for his packaging design (“Fork You”), while Eve Maria Jahn, a 26-year-old from Germany, produced a poster advertising an imaginary charitable organisation (“Sharity”). This young media designer, who works at the Baden-Baden Festival Theatre, decided to use the StockFood photograph showing a chalk drawing of a place setting. Her design completely hit the mark with the jury. The poster promotes a fictional campaign for a charity concerned with school dinners for deprived children in Germany.
The challenge for competitors was to design an advertisement for a fictitious brand using images from the StockFood collection.
The winning design:
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on May 28, 2009
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