National Design Awards
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The National Design Awards, founded in 2000, is funded and awarded by Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
. There are seven official design categories, and three additional awards. Supplemental awards can be given at the discretion of the jury or institution.
The seven official design categories are:
The three additional awards categories are:
The supplemental categories include:
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Selection Criteria
The selection criteria for all of the awards are excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life. Individual candidates must be citizens or long-term residents of the United States and have been practicing design for at least 7 years. Corporations and institutions must have their headquarters in the United States. Honorees are selected for a body of realized work, not for any one specific project.
Candidates are proposed by an official Nominating Committee and are invited to submit materials for a jury's review. Submissions consist of resumes, portfolios, publications by and about the candidates, and professional-quality audio-visual samples.
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Jury
The jurors are chosen by the museum based on their prominence and expertise in the design world. Once selected, jurors are briefed on the Museum mission and criteria for the Awards. Decisions are asked to be based on the core criteria: excellence, innovation, and contribution to the quality of life. Museum staff does not enter into the selection process.
The jury meets over a two-day period to thoroughly review every submission. The submissions are assessed in terms of the work's relationship to and impact on contemporary life. Special emphasis is placed on the extent to which the nominee's designs and achievements have benefit the general public.
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Purpose
The annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement.
The National Design Awards is one of the few programs of its kind structured to continue to benefit the nation long after the Awards ceremony and gala. A suite of educational programs is offered every year in conjunction with the Awards by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's Education Department. These programs include: lectures, round-tables, workshops, and fairs based on the vision and work of the Awards' winners.
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People's Design Award
In 2006, the first ever People's Design Award was created in order to give the general public a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite design.
Individuals can nominate and vote for their favorite designers via the official website.
People's Design Award
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institution, is the United States' national museum of design history and contemporary design and the only museum in the U.S. whose collection is solely focused on contemporary and historic design...
. There are seven official design categories, and three additional awards. Supplemental awards can be given at the discretion of the jury or institution.
The seven official design categories are:
- Architecture Design
- Communications Design
- Fashion Design (created in 2003)
- Interior Design (created in 2005)
- Interaction Design (created for 2009)
- Landscape Design
- Product Design
The three additional awards categories are:
- Lifetime Achievement
- Design Patron (created in 2001)
- Design Mind (created in 2005)
The supplemental categories include:
- People's Design Award (created in 2006)
- Special Commendation (Awarded in 2008)
- Special Jury Commendation (created in 2005, but omitted in 2008)
- American Original (Awarded in 2000 and 2002 only)
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Selection Criteria
The selection criteria for all of the awards are excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life. Individual candidates must be citizens or long-term residents of the United States and have been practicing design for at least 7 years. Corporations and institutions must have their headquarters in the United States. Honorees are selected for a body of realized work, not for any one specific project.
Candidates are proposed by an official Nominating Committee and are invited to submit materials for a jury's review. Submissions consist of resumes, portfolios, publications by and about the candidates, and professional-quality audio-visual samples.
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Jury
The jurors are chosen by the museum based on their prominence and expertise in the design world. Once selected, jurors are briefed on the Museum mission and criteria for the Awards. Decisions are asked to be based on the core criteria: excellence, innovation, and contribution to the quality of life. Museum staff does not enter into the selection process.
The jury meets over a two-day period to thoroughly review every submission. The submissions are assessed in terms of the work's relationship to and impact on contemporary life. Special emphasis is placed on the extent to which the nominee's designs and achievements have benefit the general public.
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Purpose
The annual Awards program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of design by educating the public and promoting excellence, innovation, and lasting achievement.
The National Design Awards is one of the few programs of its kind structured to continue to benefit the nation long after the Awards ceremony and gala. A suite of educational programs is offered every year in conjunction with the Awards by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's Education Department. These programs include: lectures, round-tables, workshops, and fairs based on the vision and work of the Awards' winners.
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People's Design Award
In 2006, the first ever People's Design Award was created in order to give the general public a chance to nominate and vote for their favorite design.
Individuals can nominate and vote for their favorite designers via the official website.
People's Design Award
Recipients
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| Lifetime Achievement | Corporate Achievement | Architecture Design | Communications Design | Landscape Architecture Landscape architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions... |
Fashion Design Fashion design Fashion design is the art of the application of design and aesthetics or natural beauty to clothing and accessories. Fashion design is influenced by cultural and social latitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories.... |
Product Design Product design -Introduction:Product design is the process of creating a new product to be sold by a business or enterprise to its customers. It is concerned with the efficient and effective generation and development of ideas through a process that leads to new products.Product designers conceptualize and... |
Design Patron | American Original | People's Choice | Design Mind | Interior Design Interior design Interior design describes a group of various yet related projects that involve turning an interior space into an effective setting for the range of human activities are to take place there. An interior designer is someone who conducts such projects... |
Interaction design | Special Jury Commendation | Design Commendation | |
| 2000 | Frank Gehry Frank Gehry Frank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions... |
Apple Computer Apple Computer Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad... |
no award | Ralph Appelbaum Ralph Appelbaum Ralph Appelbaum Associates is the world's largest museum exhibition design firm. It has offices in New York City, London and Beijing.- Overview :... |
Lawrence Halprin Lawrence Halprin Lawrence Halprin was an influential American landscape architect, designer and teacher.Beginning his career in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, in 1949, Halprin often collaborated with a local circle of modernist architects on relatively modest projects. These figures included William... |
no award | Paul MacCready Paul MacCready Paul B. MacCready, Jr. was an American aeronautical engineer. He was the founder of AeroVironment and the designer of the human-powered aircraft that won the Kremer prize... |
no award | John Hejduk John Hejduk John Quentin Hejduk , was an American architect, artist and educator who spent much of his life in New York City, USA... and Morris Lapidus Morris Lapidus Morris Lapidus was the architect of Neo-baroque Miami Modern hotels that has since come to define the 1950s resort-hotel style synonymous with Miami and Miami Beach.... |
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| 2001 | Robert Wilson Robert Wilson (director) Robert Wilson is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video... |
Tupperware Tupperware Tupperware is the name of a home products line that includes preparation, storage, containment, and serving products for the kitchen and home, which were first introduced to the public in 1946.... |
Peter Eisenman Peter Eisenman Peter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc... |
John Maeda | Julie Bargmann of D.I.R.T. Studio | no award | David M. Kelley David M. Kelley David M. Kelley is an American businessman, entrepreneur, designer, engineer, and teacher. He is founder, chairman, and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a professor at Stanford University. He has received several honors for his contributions to design and design education.-Personal... & IDEO IDEO IDEO is an international design and innovation consultancy founded in Palo Alto, California, United States with other locations in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich, Shanghai, and Singapore, as well as Mumbai, Seoul, and Tokyo. The company helps design products, services,... |
Stanley Marcus Stanley Marcus Harold Stanley Marcus was an early president and later chairman of the board of the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Texas, which his father and aunt had founded in 1907... |
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| 2002 | Dan Kiley Dan Kiley Daniel Urban Kiley was a noted American landscape architect in the modernist style.- Life and career :Kiley was born in Boston, Massachusetts... |
Whirlpool Corporation | Steven Holl Steven Holl Steven Holl is an American architect and watercolorist, perhaps best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland, the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the celebrated 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City,... |
Lucille Tenazas | James Carpenter James Carpenter James Carpenter was a British astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.During the 1860s he performed the first observations of stellar spectra at the observatory, under the direction of the Astronomer Royal George Airy... |
no award | Niels Diffrient Niels Diffrient Niels Diffrient is an American industrial designer. Diffrient focuses mainly on ergonomic seating, and his most recent and well known designs are the Freedom and Liberty chairs, manufactured by Humanscale.- Biography :... |
Andre Balazs Andre Balazs Andre Balázs is an American hotelier and residential developer. He created the Standard Hotels line of hotels and operates many hotels and residences in New York and other U.S... |
Geoffrey Beene Geoffrey Beene Geoffrey Beene was an American fashion designer.Beene was born in Haynesville, Louisiana. He studied medicine at Tulane University, but dropped out in 1946, after three years. He moved to New York in 1947 to attend the Traphagen School of Fashion... |
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| 2003 | I.M. Pei | Target Corporation Target Corporation Target Corporation, doing business as Target, is an American retailing company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. The company is ranked at number 33 on the Fortune 500 and is a component of the Standard & Poor's... |
Billie Tsien and Tod Williams Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects are a husband-and-wife architectural firm founded in 1974, based in New York.... |
Robert Greenberg Robert Greenberg Robert M. Greenberg , is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, NY. He has composed more than 45 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for The Teaching... |
Michael Van Valkenburgh Michael Van Valkenburgh Michael R. Van Valkenburgh is an American landscape architect and educator. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in the United States, Canada, Korea, and France including public parks, college campuses, sculpture gardens, city courtyards, corporate landscapes, and private gardens-Early... |
Tom Ford Tom Ford Thomas Carlyle "Tom" Ford is an American fashion designer and film director. He gained international fame for his turnaround of the Gucci fashion house and the creation of the Tom Ford label before directing the Oscar-nominated film A Single Man.-Early life :Tom Ford was born August 27, 1961 in... |
Herman Miller Herman Miller (office equipment) Herman Miller, Inc., based in Zeeland, Michigan, is a major American manufacturer of office furniture and equipment, as well as furniture for the home. It is notable as one of the first companies to produce modern furniture and, under the guidance of Design Director George Nelson, is likely the... |
Gordon Segal | no award | no award | no award | no award | no award | no award | |
| 2004 | Milton Glaser Milton Glaser Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.-Biography:Glaser was born into a Hungarian... |
Aveda Corporation | Rick Joy Rick Joy -Early life:Joy was born in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. He studied music at the University of Maine from 1977 to 1984 before studying architecture at the University of Arizona, graduating in 1990 and establishing his own practice in 1993.-Career and Recognition:... and Polshek Partnership James Polshek James Stewart Polshek is an American architect based in New York City. He is the founder of Polshek Partnership, the firm at which he was Principal Design Partner for more than four decades... |
@radical.media | William A. McDonough William McDonough William Andrews McDonough is an American architect, founding principal of , co-founder of with German chemist Michael Braungart as well as co-author of also with Braungart... and Partners |
Yeohlee Teng | Yves Béhar Yves Behar Yves Béhar is a designer, entrepreneur, and sustainability advocate. He is the founder of fuseproject, the San Francisco and New York based design and branding firm he established in 1999... |
Amanda M. Burden Amanda Burden Amanda Jay Mortimer Burden is the director of the New York City Department of City Planning and chair of the City Planning Commission.... |
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| 2005 | Eva Zeisel Eva Zeisel Eva Striker Zeisel is a Hungarian-born industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships... |
Patagonia Patagonia Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean... |
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Diller Scofidio + Renfro Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a New York City-based interdisciplinary design studio that integrates architecture, the visual arts, and the performing arts. Originally founded by Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio in 1979, the firm is particularly well known for its interdisciplinary approach to... |
Stefan Sagmeister Stefan Sagmeister Stefan Sagmeister is a New York-based graphic designer and typographer. He has his own design firm—Sagmeister Inc.—in New York City. He has designed album covers for Lou Reed, OK Go, The Rolling Stones, David Byrne, Aerosmith and Pat Metheny.-Biography:Sagmeister studied graphic design at the... |
Ned Kahn Ned Kahn Ned Kahn is an environmental artist and sculptor, famous in particular for museum exhibits he has built for the Exploratorium in San Francisco... |
Toledo Studio | Burt Rutan Burt Rutan Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft... |
Richard M. Daley Richard M. Daley Richard Michael Daley is a United States politician, member of the national and local Democratic Party, and former Mayor of Chicago, Illinois. He was elected mayor in 1989 and reelected in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007. He was the longest serving Chicago mayor, surpassing the tenure of his... , Mayor of Chicago |
no award | no award | Katherine and Michael McCoy Michael McCoy Michael McCoy is an American industrial designer and educator who has made significant contributions to American design and design education in the latter half of the 20th century... |
Richard Gluckman | Sergio Palleroni Sergio Palleroni Sergio Palleroni is an architect, professor, and at the new at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. He is internationally known for his social and environmental activism, providing with his students and collaborators sustainable design solutions to communities in... |
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| 2006 | Paolo Soleri Paolo Soleri Paolo Soleri is an Italian-American architect. He established Arcosanti and the educational Cosanti Foundation. Soleri is a lecturer in the College of Architecture at Arizona State University and a National Design Award recipient in 2006.-Early life:Soleri was born in Turin, Italy... |
Nike, Inc. Nike, Inc. Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area... |
Thom Mayne Thom Mayne Thom Mayne is a Los Angeles-based architect. Educated at University of Southern California and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1978, Mayne helped found the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 1972, where he is a trustee... |
2x4 2x4 -Music:* 2X4 , a 1987 album* 2X4 , a 1984 album* "2 X 4", a 1996 song by Metallica from their album Load* "2 X 4", a 1995 song by Blind Melon from their album Soup... |
Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz, born 1950, is an American landscape architect. Her background is in the fine arts as well as landscape architecture, and her projects range from private to urban scale. She studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and graduated from the University of Michigan... |
Maria Cornejo | Bill Stumpf Bill Stumpf William Eugene "Bill" Stumpf was a designer for Herman Miller who helped design the Aeron and Ergon chairs.Stumpf's battle really began in the 1960s. "Everything goes back to those days at the University of Wisconsin–Madison," he said, referring to the postgraduate years he spent studying and... |
Craig Robins | no award | The Katrina Cottage Katrina Cottage Katrina Cottages are small residential shelters designed and marketed in the United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina . They were designed as a response to the inadequacies of the trailers issued to flood victims by the Federal Emergency Management Agency... by Marianne Cusato Marianne Cusato Marianne Cusato is a designer, educator, author, and urban designer based in Greenwich Village in New York City. She was the designer of the "Katrina Cottage," conceived in 2005 as an alternative to the FEMA emergency trailers supplied to some of the newly-homeless survivors of Hurricane Katrina... |
Paola Antonelli | Michael Gabellini Michael Gabellini Michael Gabellini is a renowned minimalist architect and interior designer. He has won the progressive architecture award as well as awards from the American Institute of Architects and three Decade of Design Awards from the International Interior Design Association.In 1991 he established... |
Syd Mead Syd Mead Sydney Jay Mead, commonly Syd Mead, is a "visual futurist" and concept artist. He is best known for his designs for science-fiction films such as Blade Runner, Aliens and Tron... |
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| 2007 | Antoine Predock Antoine Predock Antoine Predock is an American architect based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Antoine Predock is the Principal of Antoine Predock Architect PC. The studio was established in 1967... |
Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States... |
Office dA | Chip Kidd Chip Kidd Chip Kidd is an American author, editor, and graphic designer, best known for his book covers.- Early life :Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up in the Reading suburb of Shillington, strongly influenced by American popular culture... |
PWP Landscape Architecture | Rick Owens Rick Owens Rick Owens is an American fashion designer hailing from California, celebrated for his avant garde and subversive eye.He is married to Michele Lamy.Since 2003, Rick Owens has lived in Paris.-Biography:... |
Jonathan Ive Jonathan Ive Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.- Early... |
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no award | TOMS Shoes TOMS Shoes TOMS Shoes is a for-profit company based in Santa Monica, California, that also operates a non-profit subsidiary, Friends of TOMS. The company was founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, an entrepreneur from Arlington, Texas. The company designs and sells lightweight shoes based on the Argentine... by Blake Mycoskie |
Denise Scott Brown Denise Scott Brown Denise Scott Brown, is an architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia... and Robert Venturi Robert Venturi Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century... |
Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (LTL Architects) Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis is an award-winning architecture partnership founded in 1997 by Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis, located in New York City, United States.... |
Frank Ching Frank Ching Frank Ching is a widely recognized author of books addressing architectural and design graphics. Ching's books have been widely influential and continue to shape the visual language of all fields of design. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington.Ching was born and raised in... |
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| 2008 | Charles Harrison | Google, Inc. | Tom Kundig Tom Kundig Tom Kundig, FAIA is a principal of the Seattle-based firm Olson Kundig Architects, known as 'the rockstar of residential architecture'... |
Scott Stowell | OLIN Olin -Organizations:* OLIN, a landscape architecture and urban design firm in Philadelphia and Los Angeles* Olin Corporation, a chemical corporation with a history of producing chemicals and ammunition* F. W. Olin Foundation, a foundation endowed by Franklin W. Olin... |
Ralph Rucci Chado Ralph Rucci Ralph Rucci is an American fashion designer and artist. He is known in particular for Chado Ralph Rucci, a luxury clothing and accessories line. Rucci's clothing designs have appeared in a number of major exhibitions, and he has won some significant fashion-industry awards... |
Antenna Design | Architecture for Humanity Architecture for Humanity Architecture for Humanity is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings professional design services to communities in need... |
no award | Zon hearing aid by Stuart Karten Design Stuart Karten Design Karten Design is a Los Angeles-based industrial design consultancy that assists companies in multiple stages of product development, from customer research and concept generation through product engineering and production... |
Michael Bierut Michael Bierut Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning.... |
Rockwell Group | no award | Janna Bullock | |
| 2009 | Bill Moggridge Bill Moggridge William Moggridge, an industrial and interaction designer, is co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO and the current director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. He designed what was the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass... |
Walker Art Center Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a contemporary art center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is considered one of the nation's "big five" museums for modern art along with the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Hirshhorn... |
SHoP Architects SHoP Architects SHoP Architects is an architectural firm based in Lower Manhattan. The firm was founded in 1996 by five partners: Christopher Sharples , Coren Sharples , William Sharples , Kimberly Holden and Gregg Pasquarelli... |
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Hood Design | Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein Calvin Klein Calvin Richard Klein is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc. in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry.... Collection |
Boym Partners | Reynold Levy Reynold Levy Reynold Levy has been the President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts since March 1, 2002.Reynold’s leadership at Lincoln Center continues a distinguished career of public service... |
no award | Trek Trek Trek or trekking is a long journey undertaken on foot in areas where common means of transport is generally not available. Trekking is not mountaineering; it is days of walking along with adventure.-Etymology:... Lime Bike |
Amory B. Lovins | Tsao & McKown Architects | no award | no award | |
| 2010 | Jane Thompson Jane Thompson Jane Thompson, AICP, Hon. AIA, principal of Thompson Design Group, is an urbanist, designer and planner, whose work over forty years has touched cities in North America and around the world.Ms... |
U.S. Green Building Council | KieranTimberlake | Stephen Doyle Stephen Doyle Stephen Doyle is a South Australian Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans of the AFL.Doyle was selected by the Swans under the father-son rule in the 1999 National Draft, as his father Robert had played 77 games for South Melbourne... |
James Corner Field Operations | Rodarte Rodarte Rodarte is a brand of clothing and accessories founded by Kate and Laura Mulleavy. The Mulleavy sisters are U.C. Berkeley graduates from Aptos, California, and have received a number of industry awards since the line's inception in 2005... |
Smart Design | no award | no award | The Braille Alphabet Bracelet by Leslie Ligon | Ralph Caplan Ralph Caplan Ralph Caplan, born January 4, 1925 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, is a well-known design consultant, writer in the field of design, author and public speaker.In 1941 Caplan entered Earlham College for a semester, then enlisted in the Marine Corps... |
William Sofield | no award | no award | |
| 2011 | Matthew Carter Matthew Carter Matthew Carter is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type... |
Knoll Knoll (company) Knoll is a design firm that produces office systems, seating, files and storage, tables and desks, textiles , and accessories for office and for the home. The company also manufactures furniture for the home by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Florence Knoll , Frank Gehry, Maya Lin and... |
Architecture Research Office | Rick Valicenti | Gustafson Guthrie Nichol | J. Mendel | Continuum | no award | no award | no award | Steven Heller Steven Heller (graphic design) Steven Heller is an American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes on topics related to graphic design.... |
Shelton, Mindel & Associates | Ben Fry | no award | no award |