Shahneshin Foundation announced that Emel Ardaman, Zeynep Aygen, Rami Bishara, Pallop Henpreserttae, Emran Hossain, Kitchai Jitkhajornwanich, Anton Legoo, Boris Ljubicic, A. Can Metin, Jacob Peel, Alaina Prokopchuk, Andrea Wilkinson, and Shannon Zandy, have been selected from a highly-regarded worldwide practices and institutions in the Shrinkage Worldwide Awards 2006 to design a multi-purpose poster capable of delivering the shrinkage nature.

The distinguished international jury included: Swiss Philosopher and Cultural Historian Christoph Eggenberger, Italian Designer and Architect Lui Galati, Spanish Artist Guliermo Rodriguez, Persian Critic and Architect Siamak G. Shahneshin, and German Writer and Critic Margit Weinberg Staber.

The jury’s selections will be showcased as a public exhibition scheduled to open at the Seeschau Pavilion in Zurich in December 2006. In addition, the show will be hosted at the arts and design institutions and organization, and galleries throughout the world during 2007.

The accepted entries came from: Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, Ukraine, USA, and from an array of diverse fields -both academics and practitioners- in arts, architecture, graphic design, industrial design, landscape-architecture, planning, product-design, publicity, robotics, and more.

You can view some of the amazing winning poster entries as a .pps file download from the Shahneshin Foundation Website.