Victor Fatanmi, co-founder of brand design agency FourthCanvas, wins The Future Awards Africa Prize for Technology
The highly coveted award is a recognition of his work at Fullgap—an operating system helping freelancers streamline their work and onboard their clients like a pro—which he co-founded with his partner
Victor Fatanmi, CEO and Co-founder of Nigerian-led brand design agency FourthCanvas, wins The Future Awards Africa Prize for Technology 2023.
Announcing the win on X formerly Twitter, he wrote; “From designing the brochure and posters in 2014 to winning the thing itself… can’t believe it.”
The highly coveted award is a recognition of his work at Fullgap—an operating system helping freelancers streamline their work and onboard their clients like a pro—which he co-founded with his partner, Bolaji, and currently serves as the CEO. According to Victor, insights from building FourthCanvas (the brand design agency) gave birth to Fullgap.
In a post introducing Fullgap, Victor wrote; “While I moved from that freelancer phase to co-founding FourthCanvas (the brand design agency) with Bolaji Fawole, I remained close to the creative community, providing mentorship to hundreds of designers to date, and I observed that the problems I faced earlier in my career did not go anywhere, not with time or technology.”
“Even at the level of an agency, we saw how combining so many products to run our projects could be a lot of work, surely it was worse out there for individual designers, writers, developers, and more. So, we decided to do something about it,” he shared. “With more efficient systems, we can help freelancers — who we are helping to evolve into ‘creative pros’ — make the most of it.”
Fullgap Beta went live in April this year and has received positive responses and a warm welcome from the community.
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Per TFA, the Prize for Technology acknowledges the work of a researcher, scientist, innovator, or inventor who has contributed to the advancement and application of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) either for personal gain, professional advancement, charity, or administrative duties within the year in review.
Other nominees for the award category included David Onilude, Germaine and Hansel Ndu Okeke, Goodness Kayode, Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Shodipo Ayomide, and Yanmo Omoregbe.
The Future Awards—conceived by Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams in 2004—is an award celebrating young people between the ages of 18 and 31, who have made outstanding achievements in the year under consideration. The first edition of The Future Awards Africa ceremony was held on February 6, 2006, at Magnolia Hall, City Mall, Lagos to honour the outstanding achievements of the 2005/2006 season.
Currently in its 17th year, the award has been described by Forbes as the “Most important awards for outstanding young Africans”.
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Responding to a post on X (formerly Twitter) in May on what work brought people into the limelight, Victor wrote; “Not limelight but that switched it all up: Graphic design for The Future Awards Africa 2014.”
In what is a full circle moment, following his announcement as a winner of the prestigious award which he once worked on, he shared a picture of his first time at the award ceremony in 2014 alongside him winning the award 9 years later.
