press room
SF announcement
monday april 7 - 2008
The international jury 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 accepted 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.
Notes to editors:
Please ensure that the SF is credited when mentioning the above award. The SF offers bespoke art and design awards and grants that promote the future-thinking, as well as encourage excellence in design toward a sustainable world. For further information and material request, please contact Press Office.
Shahneshin Foundation
http://www.shahneshinfoundation.org/contact/index.html
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The Shrinkage Worldwide Award 2007 now is open.
To view the brief, click here
Entry Fee
SF has received hundreds of requests for the reduction of the Entry-Fee.
The SF board of trustees considering the number of inquiries and worldwide
economy has decided:To make the completion more accessible to the worldwide community,
entry fees for the following countries have been discounted: Afghanistan,
Albania, Algeria, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh,
Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bhutan,
Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African
Republic, Chad, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica,
East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia,
Fiji, Gambia, Gaza Strip, Ghana, Grenada, Guam, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau,
Guatemala, Georgia, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan,
Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macedonia,
Madagascar, Mali, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Micronesia,
Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan,
Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda,
Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia and
Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname,
Swaziland, Tanzania, Tajikistan, East Timor, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago,
Tuvalu, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela,
West Bank, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Discounted Fee for the above countries:
Entry fee is Zero EUR
The Shahneshin Foundation board of trustee has selected Ms. Andrea Wilkinson
to design the poster/brief of the 2007 edition of the Shrinkage Worldwide
Award. She was one of the participants at the Shrinkage Worldwide Award
2006. The selected entry posters have been displayed at a special exhibition
in the places of the SAP seeschau art pavilion Zurich, before travelling
to venues in an array of diverse private and public places, in the
USA, Middle East and Europe.
Jury comprises of Christoph Eggenberger philosopher and cultural historian, Lui Galati designer and architect, Stephanie von Fürstenberg artist, Bettina Schulz editor and writer, Siamak G. Shahneshin, critic and architect, and Kenneth Yeang, architect and author.
Notes to editors:
Please ensure that the SF is credited when mentioning the above award.
The SF organises bespoke art and design award and grants that promote
the future-thinking, as well as encourage excellence in design toward
a sustainable world. For further information and material request, please
contact:
Shahneshin Foundation Press Office P.O.B. 1211 CH-8700 Küsnacht-Zürich
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0)43 540 00 26 Fax: +41 (0)43 540 00 27 http://www.shahneshinfoundation.org/contact/index.html
