Royal Designer for Industry is a distinction established by the British

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(RSA) in 1936, to encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers. It is awarded to people who have achieved "sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry". Those who are British citizens take the letters RDI after their names, while those who are not become Honorary RDIs (HonRDI). Everyone who holds the distinction is a Member of The Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (founded in 1938). Their work is diverse, ranging from fashion to engineering, theatre to product design, graphics to environmental design. New RDIs are elected annually and the Faculty continues to support initiatives to further excellence in design, including an annual Summer School for innovative young designers. Only 200 designers may hold the distinction RDI at any time and it is regarded as the highest honour to be obtained in the

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in a diverse range of design disciplines including the field of

industrial design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...

. In addition, the RSA may confer HonRDI titles up to a maximum of half the number of people who currently hold the distinction RDI. New RDIs are awarded Diplomas each year at the annual RDI Dinner. Every two years a new Master of the Faculty is elected by the past Masters, who include Dinah Casson, Mike Dempsey, Sir

Kenneth Grange Sir Kenneth Henry Grange, Order of the British Empire, CBE, Chartered Society of Designers, PPCSD, Royal Designers for Industry, RDI (born 17 July 1929, London) is a British industrial designer, renowned for a wide range of designs for familiar, ...

, Geoffrey Harcourt, Martin Hunt, Timothy O’Brien,

Chris Wise Christopher Mark Wise (born 1956) is an English academic and engineer. Wise began his career with Ove Arup and Partners in 1979. After working in UK, Australia and US, he became Arup's youngest Director in 1992, and later became one of five Board ...

Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Leslie Garrett (born 1956) is a British graphic designer, and Creative Director of Images&Co, a communications design consultancy based in London, UK. He is Ambassador for Manchester School of Art and co-founder of the annual Design M ...

and Tristram Carfrae. The current Master is Mark Major.

Current members

The list identifies current RDIs, the date of their award, and the category of design for which they were honoured.

RDIs

HonRDIs

Former members

Past RDIs

Past Royal Designers for Industry * Tony Abbott, Television & theatre design, 1972 *

Ken Adam Sir Kenneth Adam (born Klaus Hugo George Fritz Adam; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a German-British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for ''Dr. Stran ...

, Film production design, 2009 * Edward Ardizzone, Illustration, 1974 *

Hardy Amies Sir Edwin Hardy Amies KCVO (17 July 1909 – 5 March 2003) was an English fashion designer, founder of the Hardy Amies label and a Royal Warrant holder as designer to the Queen. Early life Hardy Amies was born Edwin Amies on 17 July 1909 in ...

, Dress design, 1964 * Edward Abbott, Illustration, 1974 *

Jon Bannenberg Jon Bannenberg, RDI (1929 – 26 May 2002) was an Australian-English yacht designer. Biography Bannenberg was born in Sydney, Australia, and educated at Canterbury Boys High School and later at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In the earl ...

, Motor yachts, 1978 * Christian Barnard, Transport equipment, 1948 *

Edward Bawden Edward Bawden, (10 March 1903 – 21 November 1989) was an English painter, illustrator and graphic artist, known for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture. Bawden taught at the Royal College of Art, where he had be ...

, Graphics, 1949 * Gerald Benney, Silversmithing, 1971 *

Misha Black Sir Misha Black (16 October 1910 – 11 October 1977) was a British-Azerbaijani architect and designer. In 1933 he founded with associates in London the organisation that became the Artists' International Association. In 1943, with Milner Gray ...

, Exhibitions & interiors, 1957 *

John Box John Allan Hyatt Box OBE (27 January 19207 March 2005) was a British film production designer and art director. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won the equivalent BAFTA three times, a record for both awa ...

, Film production design, 1992 *

Bill Brandt Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983)Paul DelanyBill Brandt: A Life was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British ...

, Photography, 1978 * William Brown, Bridge design, 1977 * Stefan Buzas, Exhibitions & interiors, 1961 * Reco Capey, General design, 1937 * Andy Cameron, Interactive design, 2011 *

Hugh Casson Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect. He was also active as an interior designer, as an artist, and as a writer and broadcaster on twentieth-century design. He was the director of architecture for t ...

, Exhibitions, 1961 * Achille Castiglioni, General design, 1986 * Hulme Chadwick, Product design, 1974 *

Colin Chapman Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars. Chapman ...

, Automotive design, 1979 *

Wells Coates Wells Wintemute Coates OBE (December 17, 1895 – June 17, 1958) was an architect, designer and writer. He was, for most of his life, an expatriate Canadian who is best known for his work in England, the most notable of which is the Modernist ...

, General design, 1944 *

Christopher Cockerell Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS (4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Early life and education Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cocke ...

, Engineering design, 1987 *

Douglas Cockerell Douglas Bennett Cockerell (1870 – 1945) was a British bookbinder and author. Early life and education Douglas Bennett Cockerell was born on 5 August 1870 in Clifton Cottage, Sydenham in London, England to parents Alice Elizabeth and Sydney ...

, Bookbinding, 1936 *

Susie Cooper Susan Vera Cooper OBE (29 October 1902 – 28 July 1995) was a prolific English ceramic designer working in the Stoke-on-Trent pottery industries from the 1920s to the 1980s. Life and work Born in Burslem, Staffordshire, she was the youngest of ...

, Pottery, 1940 * Kay Cosserat, Textile design, 1986 *

Edward Gordon Craig Edward Henry Gordon CraigSome sources give "Henry Edward Gordon Craig". (born Edward Godwin; 16 January 1872 – 29 July 1966), sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and ...

, Stage design, 1937 *

Gordon Cullen Thomas Gordon Cullen (9 August 1914 – 11 August 1994) was an influential British architect and urban designer who was a key motivator in the Townscape movement. Cullen presented a new theory and methodology for urban visual analysis and design b ...

, Illustration & townscape design, 1975 *

Robin Day Sir Robin Day (24 October 1923 – 6 August 2000) was an English political journalist and television and radio broadcaster. Day's obituary in ''The Guardian'' by Dick Taverne stated that he was "the most outstanding television journalist of ...

, Furniture & exhibitions, 1959 *

Lucienne Day Désirée Lucienne Lisbeth Dulcie Day OBE RDI FCSD (''née'' Conradi; 5 January 1917 – 30 January 2010) was one of the most influential British textile designers of the 1950s and 1960s. Day drew on inspiration from other arts to develop a ...

, Textiles, 1962 * Richard Eckersley, Book design, 1999 *

Tom Eckersley Tom Eckersley (30 September 1914 – 4 August 1997) was an English poster artist and teacher of design. Early career Tom Eckersley was born on 30 September 1914 in Lancashire. His artistic training began in 1930 when he enrolled at Salford ...

, Posters, 1963 * Alan Fletcher, Graphics & publicity design, 1972 *

Uffa Fox Uffa Fox, CBE (15 January 1898 – 26 October 1972) was an English boat designer and sailing enthusiast, responsible for a number of innovations in boat design. Not afraid of courting controversy or causing offense, he is remembered for his ec ...

, Small boats, 1955 * Barnett Freedman, Graphics, 1949 *

Roger Furse Roger Kemble Furse (11 September 1903 – 19 August 1972) was an English painter who worked as a costume designer and production designer for both stage and film. Career Roger Furse was the son of Lieutenant General Sir William Furse and Je ...

, Stage & film design, 1949 *

Abram Games Abram Games (29 July 191427 August 1996) was a British graphic designer. The style of his work – refined but vigorous compared to the work of contemporaries – has earned him a place in the pantheon of the best of 20th-century graphic desi ...

, Posters, 1959 * James Gardner, Exhibitions, 1947 * J Laurent Giles, Yachts, 1951 *

Eric Gill Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' describes Gill as ″the greatest artist-cra ...

, Typography & wood engraving, 1936 * Robert Goodden, General design, 1947 *

Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major i ...

, Printed textiles, 1941 *

Eileen Gray Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 187831 October 1976) was an Irish architect and furniture designer who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Over her career, she was associated with many notable Euro ...

, Furniture & interiors, 1972 *

Milner Gray Milner Gray may refer to: *Milner Gray (politician) Milner Gray (11 May 1871 – 10 April 1943) was a British Liberal politician. Family life and business Gray was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, the son of a Baptist Minister,''Who was Who'', OUP ...

, Packaging, 1937 * E W Grieve, Shop window display, 1940 * Jacqueline Groag, Textile design, 1964 * Edmund Happold, Engineering design, 1983 *

Geoffrey de Havilland Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, (27 July 1882 – 21 May 1965) was an English aviation pioneer and aerospace engineer. The aircraft company he founded produced the Mosquito, which has been considered the most versatile warplane ever built,D ...

, Aircraft, 1944 *

Ashley Havinden Ashley Havinden (1903–1973) was an influential British graphic designer in the mid twentieth century, specializing in posters, advertisements, logos and typography, he was also a textile and rug designer. In 1947 he was appointed a Royal De ...

, Graphics, 1947 * Lionel Haworth, Engineering design, 1976 *

Ambrose Heal Sir Ambrose Heal (3 September 1872 – 15 November 1959) was an English furniture designer and businessman in the first half of the 20th century. He served as the chairman of Heal's (then called Heal & Son) from 1913 to 1953. Early life Hea ...

, Furniture, 1939 * F H K Henrion, Packaging & graphics, 1959 *

Jocelyn Herbert Jocelyn Herbert RDI (22 February 1917 – 6 May 2003) was a British stage designer. Early life Born in London the second of the four children of playwright, novelist, humorist and parliamentarian A. P. Herbert (1890–1971), through her fat ...

, Theatre & cinema design, 1971 * Robert Heritage, Furniture, 1963 *

George Him George Him (4 August 1900 – 4 April 1982) was a Polish born British designer responsible for a number of notable posters, book illustrations and advertising campaigns for a wide range of clients. Biography Him was born Jerzy Himmelfarb in 190 ...

, Graphic design, 1977 * James Hogan, Glass & stained glass, 1936 *

Paul Hogarth Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA (born Arthur Paul Hoggarth) (4 October 1917 – 27 December 2001) was an English artist and illustrator. He is best known for the cover drawings that he prepared in the 1980s for the Penguin edition of Graham Green ...

, Illustration, 1979 *

Charles Holden Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

, Transport equipment, 1943 * Jack Howe, Products and industrial equipment, 1961 *

Allen Hutt George Allen Hutt (1901–1973) was a British journalist, editor, newspaper designer and Communist and trade union activist. Life Hutt came from a family of printers, while his mother Marion was a headmistress. He attended Kilburn Grammar School ...

, Typographic & Newspaper design, 1970 * James Irvine, Product design, 2004 * Laurence Irving, date tbc *

Alec Issigonis Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis (18 November 1906 – 2 October 1988) was a British-Greek automotive designer. He designed the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959, and voted the second most influential car of t ...

, Motor cars, 1964 * Ralph Koltai, Theatre design, 1984 * Natasha Kroll, Shop display and television design, 1966 *

Lynton Lamb Lynton Lamb Royal Designers for Industry, RDI, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, FSRA, FSIA (15 April 1907 – 4 September 1977) was an English artist-designer, author, lithography, lithographer and illustrat ...

, Book design & illustration, 1974 *

Osbert Lancaster Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general p ...

, Illustration, 1979 * Margaret Leischner, Textiles, 1969 * Richard Levin, Television design, 1971 * Noel London, Engineering product design, 1973 *

William Lyons Sir William Lyons"Sir William Lyons – The Official Biography" by Philip Porter & Paul Skilleter, Haynes Publishing (4 September 1901 – 8 February 1985), known as "Mr. Jaguar", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co ...

, Motor cars, 1964 *

Ethel Mairet Ethel Mary Partridge, Ethel Mary Mairet RDI, or Ethel Mary Coomaraswamy (17 February 1872 – 18 November 1952) was a British hand loom weaver, significant in the development of the craft during the first half of the twentieth century. Early l ...

, Woven textiles, 1937 (first woman)Margot Coatts, ‘Mairet , Ethel Mary (1872–1952)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 200
accessed 19 Oct 2015
/ref> * Eric de Maré, Photography, 1997 *

Enid Marx Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx, RDI (20 October 1902 – 18 May 1998), was an English painter and designer, best known for her industrial textile designs for the London Transport Board and the Utility furniture Scheme. Marx was the first female eng ...

, Pattern design, 1944 * J H Mason, 1936 *

James McNeill James McNeill (27 March 1869 – 12 December 1938) was an Irish politician and diplomat, who served as first High Commissioner to London and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State. Early life One of five children born to Archibald Mc ...

, Ships, 1950 *

David Mellor David John Mellor (born 12 March 1949) is a British broadcaster, barrister, and former politician. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–92) and ...

, Silver, cutlery & lighting, 1962 *

Percy Metcalfe Percy Metcalfe, CVO, RDI (14 January 1895 Wakefield – 9 October 1970 Fulham Hospital, Hammersmith, London), (often spelled ''Metcalf'' without "e") was an English artist, sculptor and designer. He is recognised mostly for his coin designs a ...

, Medals & coinage, 1937 *

Francis Meynell Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (12 May 1891 – 10 July 1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press. Early career He was the son of the journalist and publisher Wilfrid Meynell and the poet Alice Meynell, a suffragist a ...

, Typography, 1940 *

Bill Moggridge William Grant Moggridge, RDI (25 June 1943 – 8 September 2012) was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. He was a pionee ...

, Product design, 1988 *

Edward Molyneux Edward Henry Molyneux () (5 September 1891 – 23 March 1974) was a leading British fashion designer whose salon in Paris was in operation from 1919 until 1950. He was characterised as a modernist designer who played with the refinements of co ...

, Dress, 1950 *

Stanley Morison Stanley Arthur Morison (6 May 1889 – 11 October 1967) was a British typographer, printing executive and historian of printing. Largely self-educated, he promoted higher standards in printing and an awareness of the best printing and typefaces o ...

, Type design & typography, 1960 * Alastair Morton, textiles, 1960 *

Alex Moulton Alexander Eric Moulton (9 April 1920 – 9 December 2012) was an English engineer and inventor, specialising in suspension design. Early life and education Moulton's father, John Coney Moulton, was a naturalist working in the Far East. Alex ...

, Engineering Products, 1968 *

Jean Muir Jean Elizabeth Muir ( ; 17 July 1928 – 28 May 1995) was a British fashion designer. Early life and career Jean Muir was born in London, the daughter of Cyril Muir, a draper's floor superintendent, and his wife, Phyllis Coy. Her father ...

, Dress design, 1972 * H G Murphy, Goldsmithing, 1936 *

Keith Murray Keith Omar Murray (born May 29, 1974) is an American rapper from New York. Murray grew up on Carleton Ave, in Central Islip, which is located on the South Shore of Long Island in Suffolk County. Murray was a known member of a local rap collec ...

, Glass, pottery & silver, 1936 * Charles Nicholson, Yachts, 1944 * Julia Trevelyan Oman, Theatre & film design, 1977 *

Brian O'Rorke Edward Brian O'Rorke (1901 – 1974) was a New-Zealand-born British architect and interior designer. Early life and education Brian O'Rorke was born at Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand, on 14 June 1901, the third son of Edward Dennis O'Ror ...

, Interiors, 1939 * Eric Carlton Ottaway, Road passenger vehicles, 1949 * Derek Prime, Engineering design, 1982 *

Ian Proctor Ian Douglas Ben Proctor (12 July 1918 – 23 July 1992) was a British designer of boats, both sailing dinghies and cruisers. He had more than one hundred designs to his credit, from which an estimate of at least 65,000 boats were built. His pion ...

, Boats & small craft, 1969 * Tom Purvis, Commercial art, 1936 * Ernest Race, Furniture, 1953 * A B Read, Light fittings, 1940 * A A Rubbra, Engineering design, 1977 * Gordon Russell, Furniture, 1940 * R D Russell, Furniture, 1944 *

Hans Schleger Hans Schleger (born Hans Schlesinger; 29 December 1898 - died 18 September 1976) was a German-Polish-Jewish and later British graphic designer. Early life He was born in Kempen in Posen, Prussia (in modern-day Poland) on 9 December 1898 to ...

, Exhibition display & packaging, 1959 * Hans Schmoller, Typography, 1976 * Douglas Scott, Industrial designer, 1974 *

Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's S ...

, Illustration, 1991 * George Sheringham, Interior decoration & textiles, 1936 * Peter Simpson, Woven Textile design, 1974 * Percy Delf Smith, Lettering, 1940 *

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), was a British photographer and filmmaker. He is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in ''Vogue'', '' Vanity Fa ...

, Photography, 1986 *

Basil Spence Sir Basil Urwin Spence, (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Moderni ...

, Exhibitions & interiors, 1960 * Herbert Spencer, Typography, 1965 * Harold Stabler, Pottery, Enamelling & silversmithing, 1936 * Richard Stevens, Product design, 1973 * Reynolds Stone, Lettering, 1956 *

Marianne Straub Marianne Straub OBE (23 September 1909 – 8 November 1994) was one of the leading commercial designers of textiles in Britain in the period from the 1940s to 1960s. She said her overriding aim was: "to design things which people could afford. .. ...

, Woven textiles, 1972 * Derek Sugden, Engineering design, 2009 * Fred Taylor, Graphics, 1936 * Philip Thompson, Graphics & illustration, 1997 *

Walter Tracy Walter Valentine Tracy RDI (14 February 1914 – 28 April 1995) was an English type designer, typographer and writer. Biography Walter Tracy was born in Islington, London and attended Shoreditch Secondary school. At the age of fourteen he wa ...

, Type design, 1973 * Howard Upjohn, Engineering product design, 1973 * C F A Voysey, Interior decoration, furniture & fabrics, 1936 * Barnes Wallis, Aircraft, 1943 * Allan Walton, Printed textiles, 1940 * Neville Ward, Interior design & ship interiors, 1971 * John Waterer, Leather Goods, 1953 *

Hans Wegner Hans Jørgensen Wegner (April 2, 1914 - January 26, 2007) was a Danish furniture designer. His work, along with a concerted effort from several of his manufacturers, contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design. His sty ...

, Furniture, 1969 * Robert Welch, Product design & silversmithing, 1965 *

Frank Whittle Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, (1 June 1907 – 8 August 1996) was an English engineer, inventor and Royal Air Force (RAF) air officer. He is credited with inventing the turbojet engine. A patent was submitted by Maxime Guillaume in 1921 for ...

, Engineering design, 1985 *

Berthold Wolpe Berthold Ludwig Wolpe (29 October 1905 – 5 July 1989) was a German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator. He was born into a Jewish family at Offenbach near Frankfurt, emigrated to England soon after the ...

, Typefaces & lettering, 1959 *

Anna Zinkeisen Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (29 August 1901 – 23 September 1976) was a Scottish painter and artist. Biography Zinkeisen was born in Kilcreggan, the daughter of Clare Bolton-Charles and Victor Zinkeisen, a timber merchant. The family moved to Mid ...

, Graphics & mural painting, 1940

Past Honorary RDIs

Past Honorary Royal Designers for Industry *

Edward McKnight Kauffer Edward McKnight Kauffer (14 December 1890 – 22 October 1954) was an American artist and graphic designer who lived for much of his life in the United Kingdom. He worked mainly in poster art, but was also active as a painter, book illustrator a ...

, Commercial art, 1936 *

Alvar Aalto Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, see ...

, General design, 1947 *

Franco Albini Franco Albini (17 October 1905 – 1 November 1977) was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect, designer and university instructor in design. A native of Robbiate, near Milan, Albini obtained his degree in architecture at Politecnico di Milano U ...

, Interiors, exhibitions & furniture, 1971 *

Gordon Andrews Gordon Andrews (born 11 November 1934) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving ...

, General design, 1987 *

Saul Bass Saul Bass (; May 8, 1920 – April 25, 1996) was an American graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos. During his 40-year career, Bass wor ...

, Film & TV graphics, 1964 *

Herbert Bayer Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He was instrumental in the development of the ...

, Graphic design, 1984 *

Richard Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American people, American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, ...

, Architecture & design, 1980 * Nanna Ditzel, Product design, 1996 * Charles Eames, Furniture, exhibitions & interiors, 1960 *

Jean-Michel Folon Jean-Michel Folon (1 March 1934 – 20 October 2005) was a Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. Early life Folon was born on 1 March 1934 in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium in 1934. He studied architecture at the Institut Saint-Luc. C ...

, Illustration, 1981 *

André François André François (9 November 1915 – 11 April 2005), born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist. Life He was born in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Timișoara, Romania), He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest ( ...

, Graphics 1974 * Shigeo Fukada, Graphic design, 1986 *

Alexander Girard Alexander Girard (May 24, 1907 – December 31, 1993), affectionately known as Sandro, was an architect, interior designer, furniture designer, industrial designer, and a textile designer. Early life He was born in New York City to an American ...

, Interiors, exhibitions & furnishing textiles, 1965 *

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

, General design, 1947 * Edward Hald, Glass, 1939 * Walter Herdeg, Graphic design, 1976 * Christian Joachim, Pottery, 1939 * Clarence Johnson, CL 'Kelly' Johnson, Aircraft design, 1984 * Finn Juhl, Furniture & interiors, 1978 * Dora Jung, Woven textiles, 1979 * Kaare Klint, Furniture, 1949 * Takashi Kono, Graphics, 1983 * Raymond Loewy, General design, 1939 * Vico Magistretti, General design, 1992 * Pierre Mendell, Graphic design, 1999 * Bruno Mathsson, Furniture, 1978 * Herbert Matter, Graphics & photography, 1982 * Norman McLaren, Film Animation, 1986 * Børge Mogensen, Furniture, 1972 * Josef Muller-Brockmann, Graphic design, 1988 * George Nelson (designer), George Nelson, General design, 1973 * Marcello Nizzoli, Typewriters & calculating machines, 1961 * Antti Nurmesniemi, General design, 1986 * Sigurd Persson, General design, 1987 * Battista Farina, Motor cars, 1954 * Paul Rand, Graphics, 1973 * Steen Eiler Rasmussen, General design, 1947 * Astrid Sampe, Textile design, 1949 * WHJB Sandberg, Exhibition & museum display, typography, 1971 * Timo Sarpaneva, Pottery & textiles, 1963 * Carlo Scarpa, Exhibitions, interiors & museum design, 1969 * Saul Steinberg, Illustration, 1980 * Olin Stephens, Yacht design, 1975 * Josef Svoboda, Theatre design, 1989 * Ilmari Tapiovaara, Furniture, 1969 * Walter Dorwin Teague, General design, 1951 * Henryk Tomaszewski (poster artist), Henryk Tomaszewski, Graphics, 1975 * Roland Topor, Illustration, 1988 * Jan Tschichold, Typography & book design, 1965 * Tapio Wirkkala, Glass, wood & silver, 1964 * Henry Wolf, Graphic design, 1990 * Piet Zwart, Typography, 1966

References

External links

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