Last Friday Tony Miguel, Chair of Te Whau Pathway Environment Trust, awarded Julia Fagavili Su’a with her winning design printed on a t-shirt at Glendene School. Julia and Tony had their photo taken along with Julia’s mum (Julie Fagavili) and her friend (Shiloh-Vicky Faaiuaso).
Julia’s artwork was one of the three winning designs that won. The focus of our competition is to help celebrate World Car Free Day and raise awareness about the environmental benefits of reducing reliance on cars in the communities that live near the Whau River.
About the winning designs
Te Whau Pathway Environment Trust awarded first prize to Julia Fagavili Su’a for her deceptively simple yet visually appealing design “Nature is Life”. Julia is a talented artist at Glendene School in West Auckland.
Voting in the Trust was carried out by secret ballot and this year the results surprised us all! Mia Moughan’s “Save the Earth” and Merekoura Simons’ “Save our Planet” tied! Both were awarded second equal with the prize money for second and third place shared between them.
The creative achievements of these young and talented girls was impressive, as was the designs of all entrants. Pictures of all the finalists are in our gallery below.
Nature is Life
Julia Fagavili Su’a
First Place
This message was strong and the artwork was simple yet powerful. A sure winner this year!
Save the Earth
Mia Moughan
Second Equal
Artwork that features the Whau River is always a winner with our judges. The ducks were an added bonus!
Save our Planet
Merekoura Simons
Second Equal
The beautiful and intricate details in this design made it catch the judges’ eyes. Who wouldn’t love to have this on a t-shirt?
About the competition
Every year we celebrate World Car Free Day with a t-shirt competition. Entries tend to be of a high standard and 2023 was no exception. Thank you to all entrants for your wonderful submissions!
Shout out to Whau the People for organising and shortlisting the finalists.
This was our third year running our t-shirt competition. You can see previous years entries on this website.
Next September is not so long away – how will you celebrate World Car Free Day? Biking? Walking? Busing? Working from home? Or just get started early, and try to be Car Free one day a week from now on!
T-Shirt design finalists 2023
