The New Nation - Internet Edition

The Advertising Club, Dhaka, with the support of Save the Children-USA, organised Sharpener 2008, a day-long contest among under-30 Bangladeshi creative professionals, on March 14 last at the club premises.

A total of twenty-eight contestants from agencies namely Adcomm, Cogito. Expressions, Bitopi, Unitrend, Headoffice, Green Planet, Canvas Media and A Positive, forming fourteen groups took part in the contest.

Rahul M Alindib and Hasib Hasan Chowdhury finally won the award.

The panel of judges consisted industry veterans namely Tariq Anam Khan, Muneer Ahmed Khan, Yusuf Hasan and Gausul Azam Shawon.

The closing session was attended by Sanaul Arefeen, Convenor, Ad Club, Wazir Sattar, Joint Convenor of the club and Ms Sarwat Ahmad, Joint Convenor of the club and the Coordinator of the contest.

Ramendu Majumdar, President, Advertising Agencies' Association of Bangladesh, distributed certificates among the participants.

It is worth mentioning that the winners will get the opportunity to participate in the Young Lotus contest of the 11th Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (AP AdFest) 2008 to be held on March 26-29 at Pattaya, Thailand. The winners of Sharpener 2007 also participated in the 10th AP AdFest in 2007.