Galya Raff is a 20-year old 2nd year graphic design at the University of Johannesburg. She lives in Rouxville, Johannesburg and is a product of King David Linksfield High School.
She was named the runner-up in the 2020 Wild Bean Design A Cup competition and received an Apple MacBook Pro and full one-year Adobe CC licence as her prize. The competition was won by Kabelo Diphoko, a 23 years-old 2nd-year graphic design student at North West University.
The competition, launched in 2019, was the second phase of a BP campaign aimed at enhancing the coffee drinking experience at their Wild Bean Cafés by having every cup telling a South African story. The first part was to gather authentic and inspirational South African stories that could be depicted on coffee cups and the second was to call on young artists to interpret them in their coffee cup designs.
Galya is currently studying the basics of graphic design and trying to identify a direction, but she is leaning towards illustration and magazine and newspaper design.
The biggest influence in her life has been her big sister, who is four years older than her and recently moved to Israel to pursue a career in marketing. “She always says, take every opportunity that comes your way. If you fail, you learn and, if you succeed you reap the rewards. She lives her life according to that principle and she is always trying new things and is always busy so has been very inspirational to me,” Galya said.
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