Following is a list of AIGA medalists taken from the AIGA

Aiga

‘Aiga is a word in the Samoan language which means 'family.' The aiga is the family unit of Samoan society and differs from the Western sense in that it consists more than just a mother, father and children. The Samoan family, also referred to as an 'extended family' is based on the culture's...

 website.

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

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

 and visual communication

Visual communication

Visual communication as the name suggests is communication through visual aid and is described as the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon...

."

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 39 so far in the present decade.

2010

• Steve Frykholm, 2010 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-stevefrykholm
• John Maeda, 2010 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-johnmaeda
• Jennifer Morla
  Jennifer Morla
  Jennifer Morla is an American graphic designer and artist based San Francisco, California.Jennifer Morla studied conceptual art at Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and received her BFA in Graphic Design from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  , 2010 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-jennifermorla

2009

• Pablo Ferro
  Pablo Ferro
  Pablo Ferro is a graphic designer and film titles designer.Born in Antilla, Oriente Province, Cuba, he was raised on a remote farm until emigrating to New York with his family as a teen.- Education :...
  
  , 2009 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-pabloferro
• Carin Goldberg, 2009 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-caringoldberg
• Doyald Young
  Doyald Young
  Doyald Young was an American typeface designer and teacher who specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets, and typefaces.-Work:...
  
  , 2009 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-doyaldyoung

2008

• Gail Anderson, 2008 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-gailanderson
• Clement Mok
  Clement Mok
  Clement Mok is a graphic designer and author.Mok founded several design-related businesses — Studio Archetype , CMCD and NetObjects, Inc.. In 1997, Mok helped to launch the advertising campaign called the "The Internet Guy". From 1998 until 2001, he was Chief Creative Officer of Sapient...
  
  , 2008 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-clementmok
• LeRoy Winbush, 2008 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-leroywinbush

2007

• Edward Fella
  Ed Fella
  Ed Fella is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. Ed worked as a commerical artist designing...
  
  , 2007 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-edfella
• Ellen Lupton
  Ellen Lupton
  Ellen Lupton was born in 1963, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, writer, curator, and educator. Well known for her fascination and study within "typography", Lupton decided to expand her love for design, and later took on the graphic design world...
  
  , 2007 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-ellenlupton
• Bruce Mau
  Bruce Mau
  Bruce Mau is a Canadian designer. Mau is the creative director of Bruce Mau Design, and the founder of the Institute without Boundaries.-Life and career:...
  
  , 2007 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-brucemau
• Georg Olden, 2007 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-georgolden

2006

• Michael Bierut
  Michael Bierut
  Michael Bierut is a graphic designer, design critic and educator.Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning....
  
  , 2006 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-michaelbierut
• Rick Valicenti, 2006 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-rickvalicenti
• Lorraine Wild
  Lorraine Wild
  -Biography:Lorraine Wild was born in Ontario, Canada, but has lived in America for a greater part of her life. She is a world-famous graphic designer, published writer, art historian, and art instructor of design. In 1973, she entered the Cranbrook Academy of Art program which was, at the time,...
  
  , 2006 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-lorrainewild

2005

• Bart Crosby, 2005 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-bartcrosby
• Meredith Davis, 2005 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-meredithdavis
• Steff Geissbuhler, 2005 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-steffgeissbuhler

2004

• Joseph Binder, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-josephbinder
• Charles Coiner, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-charlescoiner
• Richard, Jean and Patrick Coyne, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-thecoynes
• James Cross, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-jamescross
• Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
  Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
  Sheila Levrant de Bretteville is a graphic designer, artist and educator whose work reflects her belief in the importance of feminist principles and user participation in graphic design...
  
  , 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-sheilalevrantdebretteville
• Jay Doblin, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-jaydoblin
• Joe Duffy, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-joeduffy
• Martin Fox, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-martinfox
• Caroline Warner Hightower, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/caroline-warner-hightower
• Kit Hinrichs, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-kithinrichs
• Walter Landor
  Landor Associates
  Landor Associates is a San Francisco-based brand and creative design consultancy. Founded by Walter Landor and his wife Josephine in 1941, Landor pioneered many of the research, design and consulting methodologies that are now standard in the branding industry.-Operations:Landor offers brand...
  
  , 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-walterlandor
• Philip Meggs
  Philip B. Meggs
  Philip Baxter Meggs was an American graphic designer, professor, historian and author of books on graphic design. His book History of Graphic Design is a definitive, standard read for the study of graphic design....
  
  , 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-philipbmeggs
• James Miho, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-jamesmiho
• Silas Rhodes, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-silashrhodes
• Jack Stauffacher
  Jack Stauffacher
  Jack Werner Stauffacher is an American printer, typeface designer, and fine book publisher. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon University and at the San Francisco Art Institute....
  
  , 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-jackstauffacher
• Alex Steinweiss
  Alex Steinweiss
  Alexander "Alex" Steinweiss was a graphic designer known for inventing the album cover.-Early life:Alex Steinweiss was born on March 24, 1917, in Brooklyn. His father was a women's shoe designer from Warsaw and his mother was a seamstress from Riga, Latvia...
  
  , 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-alexsteinweiss
• Deborah Sussman, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-deborahsussman
• Edward Tufte
  Edward Tufte
  Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization....
  
  , 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-edwardtufte
• Fred Woodward, 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-fredwoodward
• Richard Saul Wurman
  Richard Saul Wurman
  Richard Saul Wurman is an architect and graphic designer who is considered to be a pioneer in the practice of making information easily understandable. Wurman has written and designed over 80 books, and created the TED conferences, but remains associated only with TEDMED.-Early life and...
  
  , 2004 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-richardsaulwurman

2003

• B. Martin Pedersen, 2003 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-martinpedersen
• Woody Pirtle, 2003 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-woodypirtle

2002

• Robert Brownjohn
  Robert Brownjohn
  Robert Brownjohn was a graphic designer known for blending formal graphic design concepts with wit and sixties pop culture...
  
  , 2002 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-robertbrownjohn
• Chris Pullman, 2002 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-chrispullman

2001

• Samuel Antupit, 2001 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-samuelantupit
• Paula Scher
  Paula Scher
  Paula Scher, born October 6, 1948, in Washington, DC., is an American graphic designer, illustrator, painter and art educator in design, and the first female principal at Pentagram, which she joined in 1991...
  
  , 2001 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-paulascher

2000

• P. Scott Makela
  P. Scott Makela
  P. Scott Makela was a graphic designer, multimedia designer and type designer.Among other work, he was especially noted for the design of Dead History, a postmodern typeface that combined features of a rounded sans serif typeface and a crisp neo-classical serif typeface...
  
   and Laurie Haycock Makela, 2000 http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-haycockmakela
• Fred Seibert
  Fred Seibert
  Frederick "Fred" Seibert is a television and film producer and entertainment entrepreneur who owns Frederator Studios, and who has held leading positions with MTV Networks, Hanna-Barbera, and Next New Networks; he owns Frederator Studios...
  
  , 2000 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-fredseibert
• Michael Vanderbyl
  Michael Vanderbyl
  Michael Vanderbyl is a multidisciplinary designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the principal of Vanderbyl Design....
  
  , 2000 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-michaelvanderbyl

1999

• Tibor Kalman
  Tibor Kalman
  Tibor Kalman was an influential American graphic designer of Hungarian origin, well-known for his work as editor-in-chief of Colors magazine....
  
  , 1999 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-tiborkalman
• Steven Heller
  Steven Heller (graphic design)
  Steven Heller is an American art director, journalist, critic, author, and editor who specializes on topics related to graphic design....
  
  , 1999 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-stevenheller
• Katherine McCoy
  Katherine McCoy
  Katherine McCoy 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....
  
  , 1999 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-katherinemccoy

1998

• Louis Danziger, 1998 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-louisdanziger
• April Greiman
  April Greiman
  April Greiman is a contemporary designer. "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 establishing the ‘New Wave’ design style in the US during the late 70s and early...
  
  , 1998 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-aprilgreiman

1997

• Lucian Bernhard
  Lucian Bernhard
  Lucian Bernhard was a German graphic designer, type designer, professor, interior designer, and artist during the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Stuttgart, Germany, on March 15, 1883, as Emil Kahn to a Jewish family, but changed in 1905 to his more commonly known pseudonym...
  
  , 1997 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-lucianbernhard
• Zuzana Licko
  Zuzana Licko
  Zuzana Licko is a typeface designer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.Licko came to the United States when she was a child along with her family...
  
   and Rudy VanderLans
  Rudy VanderLans
  Rudy VanderLans is a Dutch type and graphic designer and the co-founder of Emigre, an independent type foundry.VanderLans studied at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. Later, he moved to California and studied photography at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
  , 1997 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-zuzanalickoandrudyvanderlans

1996

• Cipe Pineles, 1996 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-cipepineles
• George Lois
  George Lois
  George Lois is a controversial American art director, designer, and author. Lois is best known for over 92 covers he designed for Esquire Magazine...
  
  , 1996 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-georgelois

1995

• Matthew Carter
  Matthew Carter
  Matthew Carter is a type designer. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Carter's career in type design has witnessed the transition from physical metal type to digital type...
  
  , 1995 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-matthewcarter
• Stan Richards, 1995 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-stanrichards
• Ladislav Sutnar
  Ladislav Sutnar
  Ladislav Sutnar was a graphic designer from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia who was a pioneer of information design and information architecture. Although he is uncredited, his contributions to business organization benefited society, which included creating a user-friendly telephone directory by...
  
  , 1995 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-ladislavsutnar

1994

• Muriel Cooper
  Muriel Cooper
  Muriel Cooper was a digital designer, business woman, researcher, and educator.Cooper received her BA from Ohio State in 1944, and a BFA in Design and a BS in Education from Massachusetts College of Art. After her graduation, Cooper moved to New York City and attempted to find a position in...
  
  , 1994 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-murielcooper
• John Massey, 1994 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-johnmassey

1993

• Alvin Lustig
  Alvin Lustig
  Alvin Lustig was an American graphic designer and typeface designer. He studied at Los Angeles City College, Art Center, and independently with Frank Lloyd Wright and Jean Charlot. He began designing for books in 1937. In 1944 he became Director of Visual Research for Look Magazine. He also...
  
  , 1993 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-alvinlustig
• Tomoko Miho
  Tomoko Miho
  Tomoko Miho was a Japanese-American designer and recipient of the 1993 Aiga Medal. She is known for her solid understanding between space and object. Miho was born in Los Angeles in the year 1931 and spent her early days in an Arizona internment camp. However, this was only a minor setback in...
  
  , 1993 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-tomokomiho

1992

• Rudolph de Harak
  Rudolph de Harak
  Rudolph de Harak, also Rudy de Harak , 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 influential as a professor of design.-Career:De Harak was born in Culver City, California...
  
  , 1992 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-rudolphdeharak
• George Nelson
  George Nelson (designer)
  George Nelson was a noted American industrial designer, and one of the founders of American Modernism. While Director of Design for the Herman Miller furniture company both Nelson, and his design studio, George Nelson Associates, Inc., designed much of the 20th century's most iconic modernist...
  
  , 1992 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-georgenelson
• Lester Beall
  Lester Beall
  Lester Beall was a twentieth-century American graphic designer notable as a leading proponent of modernist graphic design in the United States.His clear and concise use of typography was highly praised both in the United States and abroad...
  
  , 1992 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-lesterbeall

1991

• Colin Forbes
  Colin Forbes (graphic designer)
  Colin Forbes is a British graphic designer. He is notable as a former head of the graphic design program at London's Central School of Arts and Crafts and as one of the founders of the Pentagram design studio....
  
  , 1991 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-colinforbes
• E. McKnight Kauffer, 1991 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-emcknightkauffer

1990

• Alvin Eisenman
  Alvin Eisenman
  Alvin Eisenman was an influential American graphic designer and educator throughout the last half of the 20th century. He is most notable for founding and heading Yale University's graduate program in graphic design beginning in 1951 — the first graduate program in graphic design in the United States...
  
  , 1990 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-alvineisenman
• Frank Zachary, 1990 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-frankzachary

1980s

• Paul Davis, 1989 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-pauldavis
• Bea Feitler
  Bea Feitler
  Beatriz Feitler , was a Brazilian designer and art director best known for her work in Harper's Bazaar, Ms., Rolling Stone and the premiere issue of the modern Vanity Fair.-Early life, education and early career:...
  
  , 1989 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-beafeitler
• William Golden
  William Golden
  William Golden is considered to be one of the pioneers of American graphic design. He is best known for his work at Columbia Broadcasting System, starting in the CBS Radio promotion department and culminating in his tenure as creative director of advertising and sales promotion for CBS Television...
  
  , 1988 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-williamgolden
• George Tscherny, 1988 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-georgetscherny
• Alexey Brodovitch
  Alexey Brodovitch
  Alexey Brodovitch was a Russian-born photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1938 to 1958.- Early life in Russia :...
  
  , 1987 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-alexeybrodovitch
• Gene Federico, 1987 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-genefederico
• Walter Herdeg, 1986 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-walterherdeg
• Seymour Chwast
  Seymour Chwast
  Seymour Chwast an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel, and Reynold Ruffins, he founded Push Pin Studios in 1954...
  
  , 1985 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-seymourchwast
• Leo Lionni
  Leo Lionni
  Leo Lionni was an author and illustrator of children's books. Born in Holland, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving to the United States in 1939, where he worked as an art director for several advertising agencies, and then for Fortune magazine. He returned to Italy in 1962 and started...
  
  , 1984 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-leolionni
• Herbert Matter
  Herbert Matter
  Herbert Matter was a Swiss-born American photographer and graphic designer known for his pioneering use of photomontage in commercial art...
  
  , 1983 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-herbertmatter
• Massimo and Lella Vignelli
  Massimo Vignelli
  Massimo Vignelli is a designer who has done work in a number of areas ranging from package design to furniture design to public signage to showroom design through Vignelli Associates, which he co-founded with his wife, Lella...
  
  , 1982 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-massimoandlellavignelli
• Saul Bass
  Saul Bass
  Saul Bass was a Jewish-American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences....
  
  , 1981 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-saulbass
• Herb Lubalin
  Herb Lubalin
  Herbert F. Lubalin was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications...
  
  , 1980 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-herblubalin

1970s

• Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar
  Tom Geismar
  Thomas H. Geismar is an American graphic designer.Geismar studied concurrently at the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University...
  
  , 1979 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-ivanchermayeffandtomgeismar
• Lou Dorfsman
  Lou Dorfsman
  Louis "Lou" Dorfsman was a graphic designer who oversaw almost every aspect of the advertising and corporate identity for the Columbia Broadcasting System in his 40 years with the network.-Early life and education:...
  
  , 1978
• Charles and Ray Eames, 1977
• Henry Wolf
  Henry Wolf
  Henry Wolf was an Austrian-born American graphic designer, photographer and art director best known for his art direction of Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and Show magazines in the 1950s and '60s.- Life and work :...
  
  , 1976 http://www.aiga.org/medalist-henrywolf
• Jerome Snyder, 1976
• Bradbury Thompson
  Bradbury Thompson
  Bradbury Thompson was an influential American graphic designer and art director of the twentieth century.-Life and work:Communication Arts said of Bradbury "When it came to the blending of photography, typography and color, nobody did it better than Bradbury Thompson.....
  
  , 1975
• Robert Rauschenberg
  Robert Rauschenberg
  Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...
  
  , 1974
• Richard Avedon
  Richard Avedon
  Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...
  
  , 1973
• Allen Hurlburt, 1973
• Philip Johnson
  Philip Johnson
  Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...
  
  , 1973
• Milton Glaser
  Milton Glaser
  Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.-Biography:Glaser was born into a Hungarian...
  
  , 1972
• Will Burtin
  Will Burtin
  Will Burtin was a graphic designer and art director for Fortune Magazine. He designed for Union Carbide, Eastman Kodak, The Smithsonian, and Upjohn. In 1971, he received a gold medal from AIGA...
  
  , 1971
• Herbert Bayer
  Herbert Bayer
  Herbert Bayer was an Austrian American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental & interior designer, and architect, who was widely recognized as the last living member of the Bauhaus and was instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's...
  
  , 1970

1960s

• Dr. Robert R. Leslie, 1969
• Dr. Giovanni Mardersteig, 1968
• Romana Javitz, 1967
• Paul Rand
  Paul Rand
  Paul Rand Paul Rand Paul Rand (born Peretz Rosenbaum, (August 15, 1914 — November 26, 1996) was an American graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs, including the logos for IBM, UPS, Enron, Westinghouse, ABC, and Steve Jobs’ NeXT...
  
  , 1966
• Leonard Baskin
  Leonard Baskin
  Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.-Life and work:...
  
  , 1965
• Josef Albers
  Josef Albers
  Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century....
  
  , 1964
• Saul Steinberg
  Saul Steinberg
  Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...
  
  , 1963
• William Sandberg, 1962
• Paul A. Bennett
  Paul Bennett (author, typographer)
  Paul A. Bennett was an author and typographer. Bennett was Director of Typography for the Mergenthaler Linotype Company in the USA for 30 years before his retirement in 1962...
  
  , 1961
• Walter Paepcke
  Walter Paepcke
  Walter Paepcke was a U.S. industrialist and philanthropist prominent in the middle-20th century.-Biography:A longtime executive of the Chicago-based Container Corporation of America, Paepcke is best noted for his founding of the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s, both...
  
  , 1960

1950s

• May Massee
  May Massee
  May Massee was a children's book editor. Massee became the head of Doubleday's first juvenile department in 1922. Upon leaving Doubleday, she started Viking Press's first juvenile department in 1932...
  
  , 1959
• Ben Shahn
  Ben Shahn
  Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born 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:...
  
  , 1958
• Dr. M. F. Agha, 1957
• Ray Nash, 1956
• P. J. Conkwright, 1955
• Will Bradley, 1954
• Jan Tschichold
  Jan Tschichold
  Jan Tschichold was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer.-Life:Tschichold was the son of a provincial signwriter, and he was trained in calligraphy...
  
  , 1954
• George Macy, 1953
• Joseph Blumenthal, 1952
• Harry L. Gage, 1951
• Earnest Elmo Calkins, 1950
• Alfred A. Knopf
  Alfred A. Knopf
  Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house, founded by Alfred A. Knopf, Sr. in 1915. It was acquired by Random House in 1960 and is now part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House. The publishing house is known for its borzoi trademark , which was designed by co-founder...
  
  , 1950

1940s

• Lawrence C. Wroth, 1948
• Elmer Adler, 1947
• Stanley Morison
  Stanley Morison
  Stanley Morison was an English typographer, designer and historian of printing.Born in Wanstead, Essex, Morison spent most of his childhood and early adult years at the family home in Fairfax Road, Harringay...
  
  , 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
  Rudolph Ruzicka prominent Czech-born American wood engraver, etcher, illustrator, typeface designer, and book designer. Ruzicka designed typefaces and wood engraving illustrations for Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press, and was a designer for, and consultant to, the Mergenthaler Linotype...
  
  , 1935
• J. Thompson Willing, 1935
• Henry Lewis Bullen, 1934
• Porter Garnett, 1932
• Dard Hunter
  Dard Hunter
  William Joseph "Dard" Hunter was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking—especially by hand, using the tools and craft of four centuries prior...
  
  , 1931
• Henry Watson Kent, 1930

1920s

• William A. Dwiggins
  William Addison Dwiggins
  William Addison Dwiggins was a U.S. type designer, calligrapher, and book designer...
  
  , 1929
• Timothy Cole
  Timothy Cole
  Timothy Cole was an American wood engraver born in London, England, his family emigrated to the United States in 1858.He established himself in Chicago, where in the great fire of 1871 he lost everything he possessed...
  
  , 1927
• Frederic W. Goudy, 1927
• Burton Emmett, 1926
• Bruce Rogers, 1925
• John C. Agar, 1924
• Stephen H. Horgan, 1924
• Daniel Berkeley Updike
  Daniel Berkeley Updike
  Daniel Berkeley Updike was an American printer and historian of typography.Updike was born at Providence, Rhode Island. In 1880 he joined the publishers Houghton, Mifflin & Company, of Boston as an errand boy. He worked for the firm's Riverside Press and trained as a printer but soon moved to...
  
  , 1922
• Norman T. A. Munder, 1920