The Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts is awarded to "a person who, in a manner other than as an industrial designer, has applied art and design in great effect as instruments of civic innovation", as long as the winner is not already "bedecked with medals". It was first awarded in 1954, on the bicentenary of the Royal Society of Arts, and continues to be awarded annually with exceptions in 2003, 2006 and 2012. The Medal was instituted in 1954 to commemorate the founding of the RSA over two hundred years earlier, and has been awarded to a variety of individuals for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of design in industry and society. In the RSA's current account of design, that contribution is interpreted as the most effective use of design to increase the resourcefulness of people and communities.

List of Bicentenary Medallists

The medal's recipients are: *1954 Sir Colin Anderson *1955 Sir Charles Tennyson *1956 Sir Walter Worboys *1957 Sir Ernest Goodale *1958

John Gloag John Gloag (10 August 1896 - 17 July 1981) was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture. Gloag also wrote science fiction novels. Gloag served with the Welsh Guards during the First World War, and was invalided home a ...

*1959 Frank A Mercer *1960 J. Cleveland Belle *1961

Audrey Withers Elizabeth Audrey Withers OBE (28 March 1905 – 26 October 2001), known as Audrey Withers, was an English journalist, also active as a member of the Council of Industrial Design. She edited the British magazine '' Vogue'' between 1940 and 1960 ...

*1962 Sir Robin Darwin *1963 Sir Paul Reilly *1964 Anthony S. Heal *1965 Hans Juda *1966 G. Graham McK Hughes *1967 Harold Glover *1968

Marcus Brumwell John Robert Marcus Brumwell (20 April 1901 – January 1983) was a British advertising pioneer, designer, businessman, political activist, and art collector. Advertising Marcus joined H. Stuart Menzies's small advertising agency, Stuart's, i ...

*1969 Sir Duncan Oppenheim *1970 T.H.C. Worthington *1971 Sir James Richards *1972 Rosamind Julius and

Leslie Julius Leslie may refer to: * Leslie (name), a name and list of people with the given name or surname, including fictional characters Families * Clan Leslie, a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast" * Leslie (Russian nobility), a Russian noble family ...

*1973 James S. Cousins *1974

Geoffrey Dunn Geoffrey Dunn is an American author, film producer, film director, screenwriter, and investigative journalist. His films include ''Calypso Dreams'', ''Miss…or Myth?'', ''Dollar a Day, 10¢ a Dance'' and his books include, ''The Lies of Sarah ...

*1975

Viscount Eccles Viscount Eccles, of Chute in the County of Wiltshire, England, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 14 January 1964 for the Conservative politician David Eccles, 1st Baron Eccles. He had already been created Baron ...

*1976 Jack Pritchard *1977

Brooke Crutchley Brooke may refer to: People * Brooke (given name) * Brooke (surname) * Brooke baronets, families of baronets with the surname Brooke Places * Brooke, Norfolk, England * Brooke, Rutland, England * Brooke, Virginia, US * Brooke's Point, Palawan ...

*1979 Sir William Coldstream *1980 Viscount Caldecote *1981

Deryck Healey Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of '' Diederik'', the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of "people-ruler". Common variants of the name ar ...

*1982

Sir Terence Conran Sir Terence Orby Conran (4 October 1931 – 12 September 2020) was an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. He founded the Design Museum in Shad Thames, London in 1989 The British designer Thomas Heatherwick said that Conran " ...

*1983

David Maroni David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

*1984

Rowley Atterbury Rowley may refer to: Places Canada * Rowley, Alberta * Rowley Island, Nunavut United Kingdom * Rowley, County Durham, a hamlet * Rowley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England * Rowley, Shropshire, a location in Shropshire, England * Rowley Regis, ...

*1985 Sir Kenneth Corfield *1986 John Butcher *1987

Fiona MacCarthy Fiona MacCarthy (23 January 1940 – 29 February 2020) was a British biographer and cultural historian best known for her studies of 19th- and 20th-century art and design. Early life and education Fiona MacCarthy was born in Sutton, Surrey in ...

*1988 Peter Gorb *1989 Louis van Praag *1990 Sir Peter Parker *1991 Sir Norman Payne *1992

Jeremy Fry Jeremy Joseph Fry (19 May 1924 – 18 July 2005) was a British inventor, engineer, entrepreneur, adventurer and arts patron. Early life Born into the Fry family in Bristol, the son of Cecil Roderick Fry, who, as the last chairman of the J. S ...

*1993

Marquess of Bute Marquess of the County of Bute, shortened in general usage to Marquess of Bute, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1796 for John Stuart, 4th Earl of Bute. Family history John Stuart was the member of a family that d ...

*1994 Helen Auty *1995 Sir John Egan *1996

Zeev Aram Zeev Aram, OBE (5 October 1931 – 18 March 2021) was a British furniture and interior designer. He was the founder and chairman of Aram Designs Ltd, a modern furniture store in London's Covent Garden serving both the retail and contract mar ...

*1997

Margaret Harris Margaret Frances Harris (28 May 1904 – 10 May 2000) was an English theatre and opera costume and scenic designer. Biography Early years Harris was born in Hayes, Kent, the fourth child and second daughter of William Birkbeck Harris, a Llo ...

*1998 Sir John Sorrell CBE *1999

Stuart Lipton Sir Stuart Anthony Lipton (born 9 November 1942) is a British property developer, a founder of Stanhope plc, and the co-founder of the property company Chelsfield with Elliott Bernerd, and now a co-founder (with Peter Rogers) and partner in Lipt ...

*2000

Wally Olins Wallace Olins CBE (19 December 1930 – 14 April 2014) was a British practitioner of corporate identity and branding. He co-founded Wolff Olins and Saffron Brand Consultants and was the chairman of both. Olins advised many of the world's leadin ...

*2001

Sir Christopher Frayling Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. Early life and education Christopher Frayling was born in Hampton, a suburb of London, in affluent circumstance ...

*2002 Lady Hamlyn *2003 not awarded *2004 Deyan Sudjic *2005 Sheridan Coakley *2006 not awarded *2007 Lord Puttnam *2008 Tom Bloxham *2009

Cameron Sinclair Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture. He currently serves as pro bono executive director of Armory of Harmony, a US-based organization focused on smelting dow ...

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Kate Stohr Kate Stohr is an American journalist, data scientist and civic activist based near San Francisco, CA. She was the director of a Data Science initiative at Simon & Schuster. She founded 99 Antennas. In 2016 she covered the U.S. Presidential Elections ...

*2010

David Constantine David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator. Background Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became a S ...

MBE *2011 Ken Arnold *2012 not awarded *2013 Barry Quirk CBE
Video of the talk on design and public services
*2014 Susan Woodward *2015 Dr Andrea Siodmok
Video of the talk on design thinking in Government
*2016 not awarded *2017 Mary V. Mullin *2018 Deanna Van Buren *2019 not awarded *2020 not awarded *2021 Daniel Christian Wahl

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List of Bicentenary Medallists

See also

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