Article: Student's cartoon entry tops poster competition

Meena Sreenivasan
New Straits Times
10-31-2002
Student's cartoon entry tops poster competition
Byline: Meena Sreenivasan
Edition: 2*
Section: City News

ART student Abner Yap Soon Meng, from Kuala Lumpur, emerged winner in the Shell Malaysia-Nanyang Siang Pau's World Without Pollution Poster Design Competition.

Yap received RM1,000 cash, RM200 petrol card, RM300 Shell hamper and 10,000 Bonuslink points.
At the prize-giving ceremony held at Shell Malaysia Building in Jalan Semantan, Kuala Lumpur, the 21-year-old student said he was inspired by his parents to use Malaysian culture as the theme in his illustration.

"I wanted to break the rules by using comic characters to present a `no- smoking' ...

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