A campaign to crack down on racism in Scotland has enjoyed remarkable success in recent weeks, and a competition to design a poster to front its activities has finally picked a winner.

Edinburgh College student Zsuzsanna Slezak, 26, is a Hungarian national studying her foundation year in the capital, and was named the victor in a Scotland-wide contest created by Show Racism the Red Card (SRRC). Her design was chosen from over 2,000 entrants and it will now be commissioned as part of a wider print campaign.

Indeed, the design itself was prints-on-print; her hard-hitting and simple poster showed a series of human fingerprints on a white background, accompanied with one simple phrase: “Choose a white one.”

Ms Slezak told the Scotsman that her inspiration came from a personal search to find a “symbol of shared humanity”, and something that captured the essence of her own experience: coming to Edinburgh as a migrant.

She said: “I knew Show Racism the Red Card was sport and football-related, but I was also thinking about those things that are the same in everybody. [W]hen you have a visa and you’re in a police station or something like that, you always have to provide your fingerprints, which are a kind of ID.

“They are something about us which hides differences, something which is basically the same from person to person.”