2017 | For their vision and work on the World Design Summit Meeting as fellow Steering Committee members: Kathryn Moore, President of IFLA, and Regitze Marianne Hess, Special Advisor to IFHP.
2011 | Mervyn Kurlansky | For his vision of the International Design Alliance (IDA) and his role in nurturing the alliance into reality
2009 | Robert L. Peters
| For his many achievements as a Board member and as a member of the founding executive of the International Design Alliance (IDA)
2009 | Pan Gongkai
| For helping to redefine the direction of art and design education in China
2007 | Guy Schockaert | For his tireless advocacy of professional design organisations and his commitment to Icograda
2005 | Craig Halgreen
| For supporting and sustaining Sappi's Ideas that Matter program
2003 | Leimei Julia Chui
| For her role in making VISUALOGUE: Icograda World Design Congress 2003 a success
1999 | Federico Mayor
Director-General of UNESCO
1997 | ADG Uruguay
| For the organisation of the Icograda Congress XVII and General Assembly
1995 | Marion Wesel-Henrion and J. Brian Davies
| Jointly awarded for outstanding work for the Icograda Foundation and the organisation of the Poster Auction
1993 | Hiroshi Kojitani
| For outstanding services to Icograda as Vice President and particularly as Founder Chairman of the Friends of Icograda
1991 | Mary V. Mullin | For the inauguration of the Icograda Foundation and the Friends of Icograda
1989 | Simon de Hartog | For outstanding services to Design Education
1987 | Susumo Sakane | For outstanding contribution to Icograda as Vice-President
1985 | Jan Rajlich | For services to the Brno Biennale
1983 | Robert Blaich
| For the promotion of the Icograda | PHILLIPS Award
1981 | Geoffrey Bensusan
| For editorial services for the newsletter
1979 | Robert Vogle
| For the organisation of the Icograda Congress in Chicago
1977 | Kenneth and Shelagh Adshead
| For services to the Icograda Audio Visual Archive
1974 | Earnest Hoch | For services to the Standardisation and Unification or Typographic Measurement
1972 | Patrick Wallis Burke | For the design and editing of ICOGRAPHIC
1970 | Peter Kneebone | For his contribution to the SYMBOLS Commission and for his service as liaison for Icograda to UNESCO and Icsid