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Following is a list of AIGA medalists who have been awarded the
American Institute of Graphic Arts The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a professional organization for design. Its members practice all forms of communication design, including graphic design, typography, interaction design, user experience, branding and identity ...
medal. On its website, AIGA says "The medal of the AIGA, the most distinguished in the field, is awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the field of
graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscip ...
and visual communication." AIGA Medals have been awarded since 1920. Nine medals were awarded in the 1920s, seven in the 1930s, eight in the 1940s, twelve in the 1950s, ten in the 1960s, 13 in the 1970s, 13 in the 1980s, 33 in the 1990s, and 45 in the 2000s.


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2022

* Andrew Satake Blauvelt * Emily Oberman * Louise Sandhaus


2021

* Archie Boston, Jr. * Cheryl D. Miller * Terry Irwin


2010s


2019

* Alexander Girard * Geoff McFetridge *
Debbie Millman Debbie Millman is an American writer, educator, artist, curator, and designer who is best known as the host of the podcast '' Design Matters''. She has authored six books and is the President Emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts ...


2018

* Aaron Douglas * Arem Duplessis * Karin Fong * Susan Kare * Victor Moscoso


2017

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Art Chantry Arthur Samuel Wilbur Chantry II (born April 9, 1954) is a graphic designer often associated with the posters and album covers he has done for bands from the Pacific Northwest, such as Mudhoney, Mono Men, Soundgarden, and The Sonics. Biography ...
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* Emmett McBainbr>
* Rebeca Mendez, Rebeca Méndezbr>
* Mark Randal

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Nancy Skolos Nancy Skolos (born 1955) is an American graphic designer, author, educator and co-founder of Skolos-Wedell studio. Skolos is best known for her work at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where she has served as the graphic design department head ...
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Lance Wyman Lance Wyman (born 1937)Case Study: Lance Wyman
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2016

* Ruth Anselbr>
* Richard Gref

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Maira Kalman Maira Kalman is an American artist, illustrator, writer, and designer known for her painting and writing about the human condition. She is the author and illustrator of over 30 books for adults and children and her work is exhibited in museums a ...
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Gere Kavanaugh Gere Kavanaugh (born 1929) is an American textile, industrial, and interior designer. She is the principal of Gere Kavanaugh Designs. Early life and education Gere Kavanaugh was born in 1929 and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. She earned a BFA from ...
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Corita Kent Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American artist, designer and educator, and former religious sister. Key themes in her work included Christian ...
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2015

* Paola Antonellibr>
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Hillman Curtis David Hillman Curtis (February 24, 1961 – April 18, 2012) was an American new media designer, author, musician and filmmaker. Curtis was the Principal and Chief Creative Officer of hillmancurtis.com, inc., a digital design and film producti ...
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Emory Douglas Emory Douglas (born May 24, 1943) is an American graphic artist. He was a member of the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. As a r''evolutionary artist'' and the '' Minister of Culture'' for the Black Panther Par ...
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* Dan Friedman (graphic designer), Dan Friedmanbr>
*Marcia Lause


2014

*Sean Adams and Noreen Moriok

*Charles S. Anderso

*Dana Arnet

* Carbone Smolan Agency, Kenneth Carbone and Leslie Smola

* David Carson (graphic designer), David Carsonbr>
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Kyle Cooper Kyle Cooper is an American designer known for his main title sequence work. He has produced and directed over 350 visual effects and title sequences for motion pictures and broadcast. Early life Childhood Cooper was born on a Friday the ...
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Michael Patrick Cronan Michael Patrick Cronan (June 9, 1951 – January 1, 2013) was an American graphic designer, brand strategist, adjunct professor, and fine art painter. He was one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Area postmodern movement in graphic de ...
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*Richard Dann

*Michael Donovan and Nancye Gree

*Stephen Doyl

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Louise Fili Louise Fili (born April 12, 1951) is an American graphic designer recognized for use of typography and quality design. Her work often draws on inspiration from her love of Italy, Modernism, and European Art Deco styles. Considered a leader i ...
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* Bob Greenberg (marketer), Bob Greenbergbr>
* Sylvia Harrisbr>
* Cheryl Hellerbr>
* Alexander Isleybr>
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Chip Kidd Charles Kidd (born 1964) is an American graphic designer known for book covers. Early childhood Born in Shillington in Berks County, Pennsylvania, Kidd grew up being fascinated and heavily inspired by American popular culture. Comic books w ...
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* Michael Mabrybr>
* J. Abbott Millerbr>
* Bill Moggridgebr>
*Gael Towe

* Ann Willoughbybr>


2013

* John Bielenberg

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William Drenttel William Drenttel (October 14, 1953 – December 21, 2013) was a designer, author, publisher, social entrepreneur and foundation executive. In 2012, he was the president o vice president of communications and design for Teach For All, co-direc ...
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Tobias Frere-Jones Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones; August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program. Among his ...
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Jessica Helfand Jessica Helfand (born 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a designer, author, and educator. She is a former contributing editor and columnist for Print, Eye and Communications Arts magazine, and founding editor of the website Design Observer. S ...
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Jonathan Hoefler Jonathan Hoefler (; born August 22, 1970) is an American typeface designer. Hoefler founded the Hoefler Type Foundry in 1989, a type foundry in New York. Early life Jonathan Hoefler was born on August 22, 1970, in New York City to Doreen Be ...
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* Stefan Sagmeisterbr>
* Lucille Tenazasbr>
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Wolfgang Weingart Wolfgang Weingart (6 February 1941 – 12 July 2021) was an internationally known graphic designer and typographer. His work was categorized as Swiss typography and he was credited as "the father" of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography. Childhoo ...
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2011

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Ralph Caplan Ralph Caplan (January 4, 1925 – June 4, 2020) was an American design consultant, writer, and public speaker. Caplan was born in Ambridge, Pennsylvania in January 1925. In 1941, he entered Earlham College for a semester, then enlisted in the ...
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* Elaine Lustig Cohenbr>
* Armin Hofmannbr>
* Robert Vogel


2010

* Steve Frykhol

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John Maeda John Maeda (born 1966) is a Vice President of Design and Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft. He is an American technologist and designer whose work explores where business, design, and technology merge to make space for the "humanist technolo ...
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* Jennifer Morlabr>


2000s


2009

* Pablo Ferrobr>
* Carin Goldbergbr>
* Doyald Youngbr>


2008

* Gail Anderson (graphic designer), Gail Andersonbr>
* Clement Mokbr>
* LeRoy Winbushbr>


2007

* Ed Fella, Edward Fellabr>
* Ellen Luptonbr>
* Bruce Maubr>
* Georg Olden (graphic designer), Georg Oldenbr>


2006

* Michael Bierutbr>
* Rick Valicentibr>
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Lorraine Wild Lorraine Wild (born 1953, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian-born American graphic designer, writer, art historian, and teacher. She is an AIGA Medalist and principal of Green Dragon Office, a design firm that focuses on collaborative work with ar ...
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2005

* Bart Crosb

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Meredith Davis Meredith Davis (born 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an educator, writer and graphic designer. Her work centers for advocating for a comprehensive, critical and challenging design education. Career Davis graduated from The Pennsylvania ...
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* Steff Geissbuhle


2004

* Joseph Binder (graphic designer), Joseph Binderbr>
* Charles Coine

* Richard, Jean and Patrick Coyn

* James Cros

* Sheila Levrant de Brettevillebr>
* Jay Doblinbr>
* Joe Duff

* Martin Fo

* Caroline Warner Hightowerbr>
* Kit Hinrichsbr>
* Landor Associates, Walter Landorbr>
* Philip B. Meggs, Philip Meggsbr>
* James Mih

* Silas Rhodesbr>
* Jack Stauffacherbr>
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Alex Steinweiss Alexander Steinweiss (March 24, 1917 – July 17, 2011) was an American graphic design artist known for inventing album cover art. Early life Alex Steinweiss was born on March 24, 1917, in Brooklyn. His father was a women's shoe designer fr ...
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Deborah Sussman Deborah Sussman (May 26, 1931August 20, 2014) was an American designer and a pioneer in the field of environmental graphic design. Her work incorporated graphic design into architectural and public spaces. Early life and education Deborah S ...
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* Edward Tuftebr>
* Fred Woodwar

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Richard Saul Wurman Richard Saul Wurman (born March 26, 1935) is an American architect and graphic designer. Wurman has written, designed, and published 90 books and created the TED conferences, the EG Conference, TEDMED, and the WWW Conference. Education and ho ...
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2003

* B. Martin Pederse

* Woody Pirtlebr>


2002

* Robert Brownjohnbr>
* Chris Pullma


2001

* Samuel Antupi

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Paula Scher Paula Scher (born October 6, 1948, Washington, D.C.) is an American graphic designer, painter and art educator in design. She also served as the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991.Scher, Paula." (n.d.): Oxford University ...
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2000

* P. Scott Makela and Laurie Haycock Makel

* Fred Seibertbr>
* Michael Vanderbylbr>


1990s


1999

*
Tibor Kalman Tibor George Kalman (July 6, 1949 – May 2, 1999) was an American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well known for his work as editor-in-chief of ''Colors'' magazine. Early life Kalman was born on July 6, 1949, in Budapest, to parents Ma ...
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* Steven Heller (graphic design), Steven Hellerbr>
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Katherine McCoy Katherine McCoy (born October 12, 1945) is an American graphic designer and educator, best known for her work as the co-chair of the graduate Design program for Cranbrook Academy of Art. During her extensive career spanning education and profe ...
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1998

* Flax Art Supply Stores#Collaborative branding, Louis Danzigerbr>
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April Greiman April Greiman (born March 22, 1948) is an American designer widely recognized as one of the first designers to embrace computer technology as a design tool. Greiman is also credited, along with early collaborator Jayme Odgers, with helping to im ...
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1997

* Lucian Bernhardbr>
* Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLansbr>


1996

* Cipe Pinelesbr>
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George Lois George Lois (June 26, 1931 – November 18, 2022) was an American art director, designer, and author. Lois was perhaps best known for over 92 covers he designed for ''Esquire'' magazine from 1962 to 1973. Background Lois was born in New Yor ...
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1995

* Matthew Carterbr>
* Stan Richard

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Ladislav Sutnar Ladislav Sutnar (9 November 1897 – 13 November 1976) was a graphic designer from Plzeň, Czechoslovakia (in western Bohemia) who was a pioneer of information design and information architecture. Although he is uncredited, his contributions to ...
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1994

* Muriel Cooperbr>
* John Masse


1993

* Alvin Lustigbr>
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Tomoko Miho Tomoko Miho (September 2, 1931 - February 10, 2012) was a Japanese-American graphic designer and recipient of the 1993 AIGA Medal. She is known for her understanding of the relationship between space and object. Biography Tomoko Miho (née Kawa ...
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1992

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Rudolph de Harak Rudolph de Harak, also Rudy de Harak (April 10, 1924 – April 24, 2002), was an American graphic designer. De Harak was notable as a designer who covered a broad spectrum of applications with a distinctly modernist aesthetic. He was also influentia ...
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* George Nelson (designer), George Nelsonbr>
* Lester Beallbr>


1991

* Colin Forbes (graphic designer), Colin Forbesbr>
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E. 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 ...
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1990

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Alvin Eisenman Alvin Eisenman (June 18, 1921 – September 3, 2013) was an American graphic designer and educator throughout the last half of the 20th century. He was most notable for founding and heading the Yale School of Art's graduate program in graphic desig ...
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* Frank Zachar


1980s

* Paul Brooks Davis, Paul Davis, 198

* Bea Feitler, 198

* William Golden (graphic designer), William Golden, 198

* George Tscherny, 198

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Alexey Brodovitch Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch (also Brodovich; be, Аляксей Брадовіч, russian: Алексе́й Вячесла́вович Бродо́вич; 1898 – April 15, 1971) was a Russian-born American photographer, designer ...
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* Gene Federico, 198

* Walter Herdeg, 198

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Seymour Chwast Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer. Biography Chwast was born in the Bronx, New York City and in 1949 graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn where he was intr ...
, 198

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Leo Lionni Leo Lionni (May 5, 1910 – October 11, 1999) was an Italian-American writer and illustrator of children's books. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving to the United States in 1939, where he worked as an art dire ...
, 198

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Herbert Matter Herbert Matter (April 25, 1907 – May 8, 1984) was a Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer known for his pioneering use of photomontage in commercial art. Matter's innovative and experimental work helped shape the vocabulary of 20 ...
, 198

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Massimo Vignelli Massimo Vignelli (; January 10, 1931 – May 27, 2014) was an Italian designer who worked in a number of areas including packaging, houseware, furniture, public signage, and showroom design. He was the co-founder of Vignelli Associates, with his ...
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Lella Vignelli Lella Vignelli (August 13, 1934December 22, 2016) was an Italian architect, designer, and entrepreneur. She had "a lifelong collaborative working relationship" with her husband and business partner, Massimo Vignelli, with whom she founded the d ...
, 198

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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 ...
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Herb Lubalin Herbert F. Lubalin (; March 17, 1918 – May 24, 1981) was an American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: ''Eros'', ''Fact'', and ''Avant Garde''. He designed the typeface, ITC Avant Garde, ...
, 198


1970s

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Ivan Chermayeff Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv (formerly Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar and Chermayeff & Geismar) is a New York-based branding and graphic design firm. It is currently led by partners Tom Geismar and Sagi Haviv. About It was founded in 1957 b ...
and Thomas Geismar, 197

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Lou Dorfsman Louis Dorfsman (April 24, 1918 – October 22, 2008) was an American graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in his 40 years with the network. Biog ...
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Ray Eames Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (née Kaiser; December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist and designer who worked in a variety of media. In creative partnership with her husband Charles Eames and The Eames Office, she was ...
, 1977 * Henry Wolf, 197

* Jerome Snyder, 1976 * Bradbury Thompson, 1975 *
Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...
, 1974 * Richard Avedon, 1973 * Allen Hurlburt, 1973 *
Philip Johnson Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect best known for his works of modern and postmodern architecture. Among his best-known designs are his modernist Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut; the po ...
, 1973 * Milton Glaser, 1972 * Will Burtin, 1971 *
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 ...
, 1970


1960s

* Dr. Robert L. Leslie, 1969 * Dr.
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, 1968 * Romana Javitz, 1967 * Paul Rand, 1966 * Leonard Baskin, 1965 * Josef Albers, 1964 *
Saul Steinberg Saul Steinberg (June 15, 1914 – May 12, 1999) was a Romanian-American artist, best known for his work for '' The New Yorker'', most notably '' View of the World from 9th Avenue''. He described himself as "a writer who draws". Biography S ...
, 1963 * William Sandberg, 1962 * Paul A. Bennett, 1961 * Walter Paepcke, 1960


1950s

* May Massee, 1959 *
Ben Shahn Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 – March 14, 1969) was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as ''The Shape of Content''. Biography Shahn was bor ...
, 1958 * Dr. M. F. Agha, 1957 * Ray Nash, 1956 * P. J. Conkwright, 1955 * Will Bradley, 1954 * Jan Tschichold, 1954 * George Macy, 1953 * Joseph Blumenthal, 1952 * Harry L. Gage, 1951 *
Earnest Elmo Calkins Earnest Elmo Calkins (March 15, 1868 – October 4, 1964) was a deaf American advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising, of fictional characters, the soft sell, and the idea of " consumer engineering". He co-founded the in ...
, 1950 *
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, 1950


1940s

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Lawrence C. Wroth Lawrence Counselman Wroth (January 14, 1884 – December 25, 1970) was an American historian and the author of ''The Colonial Printer'', the definitive book on the American printing trade during the period of 1639 through 1800. Though he wrot ...
, 1948 * Elmer Adler, 1947 * Stanley Morison, 1946 * Frederic G. Melcher, 1945 * Edward Epstean, 1944 * Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, 1942 * Carl Purington Rollins, 1941 * Thomas M. Cleland, 1940


1930s

* William A. Kittredge, 1939 *
Rudolph Ruzicka Rudolph Ruzicka (29 June 1883 – 20 July 1978) was a Czech American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Pr ...
, 1935 * J. Thompson Willing, 1935 *
Henry Lewis Bullen Henry Lewis Bullen (1857 – April 27, 1938) was an American printer and typographic archivist. Early life Henry Lewis Bullen was born in 1857 in Ballarat, Australia to American-Scotch parentage. He left school at 14 to become a printers appre ...
, 1934 *
Porter Garnett Porter Garnett (March 12, 1871 – March 21, 1951) was a playwright, critic, editor, librarian, teacher, and printer. Biography Porter Garnett was born in 1871 in San Francisco. He was an active member in San Francisco's literary scene and a ...
, 1932 *
Dard Hunter William Joseph "Dard" Hunter (November 29, 1883 – February 20, 1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking, especially by hand, using sixteenth century tools and techniques. He is known for, among other things, the prod ...
, 1931 * Henry Watson Kent, 1930


1920s

* William A. Dwiggins, 1929 *
Timothy Cole Timothy Cole (185217 May 1931) was an American wood engraver. Biography Timothy Cole was born in 1852 in London, England, his family emigrated to the United States in 1858. He established himself in Chicago, where in the great fire of 1871 ...
, 1927 * Frederic W. Goudy, 1927 * Burton Emmett, 1926 * Bruce Rogers, 1925 * John G. Agar, 1924 * Stephen H. Horgan, 1924 * Daniel Berkeley Updike, 1922 * Norman T. A. Munder, 1920


See also

* Art Directors Club Hall of Fame * Masters Series (School of Visual Arts)


References

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AIGA The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a professional organization for design. Its members practice all forms of communication design, including graphic design, typography, interaction design, user experience, branding and identity ...