Past recipients

See the past recipients of the President's Award

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.

2015 | For his great legacy and contribution to design and for his published work World History of Design (Bloomsbury 2015) Victor Margolin, Professor Emeritus of Design, University of Illnois

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

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