The Shahneshin Foundation (SF) is pleased to announce that the distinguished jury of the Shrinkage Worldwide Awards after careful review and considered assessment of entries chose the works by Elena Giacomolli (City Empire), David Holt (untitled), Christopher Patten (Picnic), Stephanie White (Vital Fluid), Giovanna Zanghellini (Time is running out), have been selected from a highly-regarded worldwide practices and institutions in the Shrinkage Worldwide Awards this year to design a multi-purpose poster capable of delivering the shrinkage nature.

The entries came from Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, 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 so-forth.

The Shrinkage Worldwide Awards is jointly promoted by several international institutions including the Architectural Association (AA), American Institute of Architects (AIA NY), Dansk Design Centre (DDC), Design Austria (DA), Design Singapore Council (DSC), the Institute of Landscape Architects of South Africa (ILASA), International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda), and many others Institutional friends.

This was not taking place without the fantastic people around the globe, for their letter of encouragements, supports, and promoting the event on their web- and magazine- pages; therefore, the SF wants to acknowledge all of you for your effort in going along with us in helping to build the foundation of the future.

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Presented here are specimens of the human race dating back to circa the year 2000. This sample of the world’s human population represents only a small portion of the diversity that was once found in the species before the “blending” stage of their evolution. Due to advances in trasponrtaiton and communication, the geographic barriers and cultural dvidies that once incubated these differences began to dissolve and a flux was created resulting in some degree of geosocial turbulence. Slowly, this began to subside and born from it was a homogenous population.

Jacob Peel
Shannon Zancy
Arton Legoo