Royal Designer for Industry is a distinction established by the British Royal Society of Arts

Royal Society of Arts

The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...

 (or 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 United Kingdom in the field of Industrial Design. In addition, the RSA may confer HonRDI titles up to a maximum of half the number of people who currently hold the distinction RDI.

Current members

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

RDIs

Name	Category	Year
Kenneth Adam	Production design	2009
Ron Arad Ron Arad (industrial designer) Ron Arad is an Israeli industrial designer, artist, and architect.-Biography:Arad attended the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem between 1971–73 and the Architectural Association in London from 1974–79...	Furniture design	2002
Dennis Bailey	Illustration & design	1980
Edward Barber	Furniture design	2007
John Barnard	Engineering design	1995
Patick Bellew	Environmental design	2010
Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...	Interaction design	2009
Derek Birdsall Derek Birdsall -Early life:Birdsall was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1934 and attended The King's School, Pontefract, Wakefield College of Art and Central School of Arts and Crafts in London...	Graphic design	1983
Peter Blake Peter Blake (artist) Sir Peter Thomas Blake, KBE, CBE, RDI, RA is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He lives in Chiswick, London, UK.-Career:...	Graphic design	1981
Quentin Blake Quentin Blake Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well-known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.-Education:...	Illustration	1987
Sue Blane	Costume and Set design	2005
Peter Brookes	Graphic design	2002
Julian Brown	Product design	1998
Nicholas Butler	Product design	1981
Ian Callum Ian Callum Ian Callum is a British car designer who currently serves as Design Director for Jaguar and is older brother to fellow car designer Moray Callum. He is married, has two sons and currently resides in Oxfordshire, England.-Early years:...	Engineering design	2006
Donald Cameron	Engineering design	2004
Tristram Carfrae	Engineering design	2006
David Carter	Product design	1974
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...	Type design	1981
Ron Carter	Furniture design	1971
Dinah Casson	Interior design	2005
David Chipperfield David Chipperfield Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA is a British architect, born in London. He has offices in London, Berlin and Milan, and a representative office in Shanghai...	Interior design	2006
Alison Chitty Alison Chitty Alison Chitty OBE is an Olivier Award winning production designer and set and costume designer, known for her collaborations with Mike Leigh, Francesca Zambello and Sir Peter Hall. She is also the Director of the Motley Theatre Design Course, a successor to Motley Theatre Design Group...	Production design	2009
Jim Clay	Production design	2009
Peter Clegg	Architecture	2010
Terence Conran Terence Conran Sir Terence Orby Conran, FCSD, is an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer.-Early life and education:Terence Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames, the son of Christina Mabel and South African-born Gerard Rupert Conran, a businessman who owned a rubber importation company in East...	General design	2010
Stuart Craig	Film Production design	2004
Neisha Crosland	Textile design	2006
Bob Crowley	Theatre & Film design	1997
Edward Cullinan Edward Cullinan Edward Cullinan, CBE, is a British architect.Cullinan was educated at Cambridge University, the Architectural Association, and the University of California, Berkeley before working for Denys Lasdun where he designed the student residences for the University of East Anglia.Cullinan's practice,...	Architecture	2010
Mike Dempsey	Graphic design	1994
Eileen Diss	TV & Theatre design	1975
William Dudley	Theatre design	1988
James Dyson James Dyson Sir James Dyson is a British industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company.He is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. His net worth in 2011 was said to be £1.45 billion.-Early life:Dyson was born in...	Engineering design	2005
Eileen Ellis	Textile design	1984
Simon Esterson	Graphic design	2001
Mark Farrow	Graphic design	2009
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....	Graphic design	1974
Max Fordham	Engineering design	2008
Michael Foreman Michael Foreman (author / illustrator) Michael Foreman is an award-winning British author and illustrator, mainly for children. He lives in London. He is one of the best-known and most prolific writer-illustrators of children's books. He was born and grew up in the seaside village of Pakefield, near Lowestoft, Suffolk, where his mother...	Illustration	1985
The Lord Foster of Thames Bank Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, OM is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice, Foster + Partners....	Interior design	1988
Jenny Frean	Textile design	1998
John Galliano John Galliano John Charles Galliano CBE, RDI is a Gibraltan-born British fashion designer who was best known as head designer of French haute couture houses Givenchy and Christian Dior , and his own self titled fashion house.-Family:He was born in Gibraltar to a Gibraltarian father, Juan Galliano, and a...	Fashion design	2002
Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Garrett is a British graphic designer, who has worked for music artists such as Simple Minds, Magazine, Duran Duran and Peter Gabriel...	New Media	2000
Nigel Gee	Engineering design	2007
David Gentleman David Gentleman David Gentleman is an English artist-designer. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in various media - watercolour, lithography, wood engraving - and at scales ranging from the platform-length murals for Charing Cross underground...	Stamps	1970
Kenneth Grange Kenneth Grange Kenneth Grange, CBE, MCSD, RDI, is a British industrial designer.Grange’s career began as a drafting assistant with the architect Jack Howe in the 1950s...	General design	1969
Margaret Hall	Exhibitions	1974
Geoffrey Harcourt	Furniture design	1978
Tim Harvey	TV Production design	1990
Patrick Head	Engineering design	1993
Thomas Heatherwick	General design	2004
Sam Hecht Sam Hecht Sam Hecht, born in London 1969, British industrial designer. Sam Hecht and Kim Colin are retained designers of Muji.Sam Hecht and Kim Colin founded Industrial Facility in 2002, a design studio based in London...	Production design	2008
Peter Higgins	Interior design	2009
David Hillman	Graphic design	1997
Matthew Hilton Matthew Hilton (designer) Matthew Hilton is a British furniture designer of modern furniture.Hilton attended Portsmouth College of Art and then Kingston Polytechnic. After graduation he was an industrial designer and model maker until 1984. In 1991, he designed the "Balzac Armchair" for SCP Limited a company started by...	Furniture design	2004
Richard Hollis Richard Hollis Richard Hollis is one of the most influential figures in British graphic design. Hollis has worked as a printer, a magazine editor, a print-production manager, a book writer, a teacher and a graphic designer....	Graphic design	2005
Margaret Howell Margaret Howell Margaret Howell is a contemporary British clothes designer who has worked successfully in both men’s and women’s wear....	Fashion design	2007
Richard Hudson	Theatre design	1999
Barbara Hulanicki Barbara Hulanicki Barbara Hulanicki is a Warsaw-born fashion designer, known for being the founder of the iconic clothes store Biba. Born in Warsaw, to Polish parents, after studying at Brighton School of Art, now the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts, Hulanicki won a London Evening Standard competition for...	Fashion design	2009
Martin Hunt	Ceramics & Glass	1981
Nigen Irens	Engineering design	2005
Alan Irvine	Exhibitions & Museum	1964
James Irvine	Product design	2004
Jonathan Ive Jonathan Ive Jonathan "Jony" Ive, CBE is an English designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is the leading designer and conceptual mind behind the iMac, titanium and aluminum PowerBook G4, G4 Cube, MacBook, unibody MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.- Early...	Product design	2003
Betty Jackson Betty Jackson Betty Jackson is a British fashion designer based in London, England. She was born a Lancashire. In 2007, her achievement within British fashion was honoured with a CBE...	Fashion design	1988
Eva Jiricna Eva Jiricná Eva Jiřičná CBE is a renowned Czech architect, and designer, active in London and Prague. She is known for her attention to detail and work of a distinctly modern style...	Interior design	1991
William Neill Johnstone	Textile design	1989
Stephen Jones Stephen Jones (milliner) Stephen Jones OBE is a leading British milliner based in London, who is considered one of the world's most radical and important milliners of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He is also one of the most prolific, having created hats for the catwalk shows of many leading couturiers and...	Millinery	2009
Ben Kelly	Interior design	2007
Perry King	Product design	1990
Sarah King	Textile design	2008
Rodney Kinsman	Furniture design	1990
Geoffrey Kirk	Engineering design	2001
Alan Kitching	Graphic design	1994
Ralph Koltai	Theatre design	1984
Martin Lambie-Nairn Martin Lambie-Nairn Martin Lambie-Nairn is one of the most influential British graphic designers. He was the founder of his eponymous branding agency, Lambie-Nairn & Company, and is currently the creative director of branding agency Heavenly Group Ltd. His work mainly concentrates on brand identity for television...	TV Graphics	1987
Roger Law Roger Law Roger Law is a caricaturist and one half of Fluck & Law , creators of the satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image.-Early life:...	Graphic design & Caricature	1999
Stefanos Lazaridis	Theatre design	2003
R 'Sonny' Levi	Boat design	1987
Robin Levien	Ceramics & Glass	1995
David Lewis	Product design	1995
Tom Lloyd	Production design	2008
Bernard Lodge	Film & TV Graphics	1982
Ross Lovegrove	Product design	2003
George Mackie	Book design	1973
Tim Macfarlane	Structural Engineering design	2004
Roger Mann	Interior design	2005
Pearce Marchbank	Graphic design	2004
John McConnell	Graphic design	1987
Antony McDonald	Theatre design	2004
David McMurtry David McMurtry Sir David Roberts McMurtry CBE is the founder of Renishaw plc, the United Kingdom's largest supplier of metrology equipment.-Career:...	Engineering design	1989
Marshall Meek	Naval Architecture	1986
Bill Moggridge Bill Moggridge William Moggridge, an industrial and interaction designer, is co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO and the current director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. He designed what was the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass...	Product design	1988
Jasper Morrison Jasper Morrison Jasper Morrison is an English product and furniture designer.Morrison was born in London, England. He was educated at Bryanston School. He received a Bachelor of Design degree from Kingston Polytechnic Design School in 1982 and a Masters degree in Design from the Royal College of Art, London, in...	Furniture design	2001
Alex Moulton Alex Moulton Dr. Alexander Eric Moulton CBE is an English engineer and inventor, specialising in suspension design.Moulton is the great-grandson of the rubber pioneer Stephen Moulton, the founder of the family business George Spencer Moulton & Co...	Engineering Products	1968
Colin Mudie	Small Craft Naval	1995
John Napier John Napier (designer) John Napier is a set designer for Broadway and London theatrical performances.-Biography:John Napier studied at Hornsey College of Art and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, studying under notable set designer Ralph Koltai....	Theatre & Film design	1996
Marc Newson Marc Newson Marc Newson was born in Sydney, Australia. Now based in London, he is a successful industrial designer who works in aircraft design, product design, furniture design, jewellery, and clothing. He incorporates a design style known as biomorphism to his various designs...	General design	2006
Timothy O'Brien	Theatre design	1991
Jay Osgerby	Furniture design	2007
Nick Park Nick Park Nicholas Wulstan "Nick" Park, CBE is an English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep....	Animation	2006
John Pawson John Pawson John Pawson is a British designer associated with the minimalist aesthetic.-Biography:Pawson studied at Eton College and the Architectural Association School of Architecture and is married to Catherine and has two children, Caius and Benedict.-Selected projects:London's Cannelle Cake Shop, several...	Interior design	2005
Stephen Payne	Engineering design	2006
Luke Pearson	Product design	2008
Anthony Powell	Costume design	1999
Mary Quant Mary Quant Mary Quant OBE FCSD is a British] fashion designer and British fashion icon, who was instrumental in the mod fashion movement. She was one of the designers who took credit for inventing the miniskirt and hot pants. Born in Blackheath, London, to Welsh parents, Quant brought fun and fantasy to...	Dress design	1969
Wendy Ramshaw	Jewellery design	1999
James Randle	Engineering design	1994
Zandra Rhodes Zandra Rhodes Zandra Rhodes, CBE, RDI, is an English fashion designer.Zandra Rhodes was introduced to the world of fashion by her mother, who was a fitter in a Paris fashion house and a teacher at Medway College of Art, now the University for the Creative Arts. Rhodes studied first at Medway and then at the...	Fashion & Textiles	1976
Philip Ruffles	Engineering design	1997
Patrick Rylands	Product design	1999
Ron Sandford	Illustration	1989
Gerald Scarfe Gerald Scarfe Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI, is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker...	Illustration	1989
Arnold Schwartzman	Graphic design	2006
Ronald Searle Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, is a British artist and cartoonist, best known as the creator of St Trinian's School. He is also the co-author of the Molesworth series....	Illustration	1991
Paul Smith Paul Smith (fashion designer) Sir Paul Smith jr, RDI, is an English fashion designer, whose business and reputation is founded upon his menswear. He is both commercially successful and highly respected within the fashion industry....	Fashion design	1978
The Earl of Snowdon Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, GCVO, RDI is an English photographer and film maker. He was married to Princess Margaret, younger daughter of King George VI and younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II....	Photography	1986
Alan Stanton	Interior design	2005
Derek Sugden	Engineering design	2009
Alan Tye	Product design	1989
Georgina von Etzdorf Georgina von Etzdorf Georgina von Etzdorf is a British textile designer whose eponymous fashion label was renowned for its luxurious velvet scarves and clothing accessories.-Biography:...	Textile design	1995
Stuart Walker	Film & TV design	1998
Simon Waterfall	Interaction design	2007
David Watkins	Jewellery design	2010
Vivienne Westwood Vivienne Westwood Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.-Early life:...	Fashion design	2001
Raymond Wheeler	Engineering design	1995
Kim Wilkie	Landscape design	2009
Paul Williams	Interior design	2009
Chris Wise Chris Wise Professor Christopher Mark Wise BSc MIStructE MIABSE FRSA RDI 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 Directors responsible...	Structural Engineering	1998
Terence Woodgate	Furniture design	2003

HonRDIs

Name	Category	Year
Junichi Arai	Textile design	1987
Fabien Baron	Graphic design	2000
Mario Bellini Mario Bellini Mario Bellini is a world renowned Italian architect and designer.He graduated from the Milan Polytechnic - Faculty of Architecture in 1959 and began working as an architect himself in the early 1960s...	General design	1991
Manolo Blahnik Manolo Blahnik Manuel "Manolo" Blahnik Rodríguez CBE, , is a Spanish fashion designer and founder of the self-named, high-end shoe brand.-Biography:Born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and born and raised in the Canary Islands , Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965 and studied art in Paris...	Shoe design	2001
Andrea Branzi Andrea Branzi Andrea Branzi is an Italian architect and designer.-Biography:Branzi was born in Florence, where he also graduated in architecture. Currently he lives and works in Milan, Italy....	General design	2008
James Carpenter	Glass design	2008
Ivan Chermayeff	Graphic design	1991
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...	Graphic design	2005
Antonio Citterio Antonio Citterio Antonio Citterio is an Italian furniture designer and industrial designer who lives and works in Milan.Citterio graduated in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and since 1972 has worked for many leading manufacturers such as Ansorg, B&B Italia, Flexform, Flos, Hackman, Iittala, Hansgrohe,...	General design	2007
Kyle Cooper Kyle Cooper Kyle Cooper is a modern designer of motion picture title sequences.Cooper studied graphic design under Paul Rand at Yale University. Early in his professional career, Cooper worked as a creative director at R/GA - an advertising agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles...	Film & TV Graphics	2001
Wim Crouwel Wim Crouwel Willem Hendrik Crouwel is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer.Between 1947 and 1949 he studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands...	Graphic design	1998
Niels Diffrient Niels Diffrient Niels Diffrient is an American industrial designer. Diffrient focuses mainly on ergonomic seating, and his most recent and well known designs are the Freedom and Liberty chairs, manufactured by Humanscale.- Biography :...	Furniture design	1987
Sara Fanelli Sara Fanelli Sara Fanelli is an artist and illustrator, born in Florence in 1969. She came to London to study art at at Camberwell College of Art and then the Royal College of Art where she graduated in 1995. She divides her time between illustration work, books and self-generated projects...	Illustration	2006
Dionysis Fotopoulos	Theatre & film design	1992
Naoto Fukasawa Naoto Fukasawa is a Japanese industrial designer, born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1956. He graduated from Tama Art University in 1980. After having acted as the head of the American company IDEO's Tokyo office, he established Naoto Fukasawa Design in 2003...	Product design	2007
Karl Gerstner	Graphic design	2006
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...	Graphics	1979
Konstantin Grcic	Furniture design	2009
Kathryn Gustafson Kathryn Gustafson Kathryn Gustafson is an American landscape architect and artist. Her work includes the Gardens of the Imagination in Terrasson, France; a city square in Évry France; and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. She has won awards and prizes including the Millennium...	Landscape & Gardens	2001
Armin Hofmann Armin Hofmann Armin Hofmann is a Swiss graphic designer. Hofmann followed Emil Ruder as head of the graphic design department at the Schule für Gestaltung Basel and was instrumental in developing the graphic design style known as the Swiss Style...	Illustration	1968
Knud Holscher	Product design	2004
Rei Kawakubo	Fashion design	2001
Friso Kramer	Furniture	1979
Yrjö Kukkapuro	Furniture design	2002
Jack Lenor Larsen	Textile design	1983
Italo Lupi	Graphic design	2002
Erik Magnussen	Furniture & Product	2001
Enzo Mari	Product design	2000
Javier Mariscal Javier Mariscal Javier Mariscal is a Valencian Spanish artist and designer whose work has spanned a wide range of mediums, ranging from painting and sculpture to interior design and landscaping. He was born in February 1950 in the city of Valencia, Spain, into a family of eleven brothers and sisters...	General design	2006
Ingo Maurer Ingo Maurer Ingo Maurer is a German industrial designer, who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations.- Life :...	Lighting design	2005
Alberto Meda Alberto Meda Alberto Meda is an engineer focusing on design, born in Lenno, in the Italian province of Como in 1945. He graduated with a laurea in Mechanical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1969...	Product design	2005
Ottavio Missoni	Textile design	1997
Rosita Missoni	Textile design	1997
Issey Miyake Issey Miyake is a Japanese fashion designer. He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.-Life and career:Miyake was born 22 April 1938 in Hiroshima, Japan. As a seven year-old, he witnessed and survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. He studied...	Fashion design	1988
Bruno Monguzzi Bruno Monguzzi Bruno Monguzzi is a Swiss graphic designer.Monguzzi was born in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1941. He later moved to Geneva with his family and attended the Graphic Design Course at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs....	Graphic design	2003
Marcello Morandini	Ceramic design	2004
Ulf Moritz	Textile design	2004
Vuokko Nurmesniemi Vuokko Nurmesniemi Vuokko Eskolin-Nurmesniemi is a Finnish textile designer. She joined the Marimekko company in 1953 and designed patterns for many of their printed fabrics in the 1950s; together with Maija Isola, she was responsible for most of Marimekko's patterns. Nurmesniemi left Marimekko in 1960 and founded...	Fashion & Textiles	1988
Sergio Pininfarina Sergio Pininfarina Sergio Pininfarina is an Italian automobile designer, like his father Battista Farina. After joining his father at Carrozzeria Pininfarina, he quickly became integral to the company, and during his career oversaw many of the designs for which the company is famous...	Automotive design	1983
Mark Pollack	Textile design	2007
Dieter Rams Dieter Rams Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.- Life and career :...	Electrical Appliances & Furniture	1968
Richard Sapper Richard Sapper Richard Sapper, born 1932 in Munich, is a German industrial designer based in Milan, Italy. He is considered one of the most iconic designers of his generation, his products typically featuring a combination of technical innovation, simplicity of form and an element of wit and surprise...	Product design	1988
Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz, born 1950, is an American landscape architect. Her background is in the fine arts as well as landscape architecture, and her projects range from private to urban scale. She studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and graduated from the University of Michigan...	Landscape design	2009
Jean-Jacques Sempé Jean-Jacques Sempé Jean-Jacques Sempé, usually known as Sempé , is a French cartoonist. Some of his cartoons are quite striking, but retain a sentimental and often a somewhat gentle edge to them, even if the topic is a difficult one to approach...	Illustration	1989
Maurice Sendak Maurice Sendak Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.-Early life:...	Illustration	1986
Ettore Sottsass Ettore Sottsass Ettore Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century. His body of designs included furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and office machine design.-Early career:...	Product design	1999
Erik Spiekermann Erik Spiekermann Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen....	Type design	2007
Roger Tallon Roger Tallon - Biography :After studying as an engineer , Tallon was employed by Caterpillar France and DuPont. In 1953, he joined Technès, the technical and aesthetic studies office founded in 1949 by the father of industrial aesthetics Jacques Viénot, and Jean Parthenay...	General design	1973
Piero Tosi Piero Tosi Piero Tosi is an Italian costume designer. His credits include Bellissima, The Leopard, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Death in Venice, The Night Porter, and La Traviata. He won the David di Donatello for Best Costumes twice, as well as the 50th Anniversary David in 2006...	Costume design	2007
Dries van Noten Dries van Noten Dries Van Noten is a Belgian fashion designer and an eponymous fashion brand. In 2005, the New York Times described him "one of fashion's most cerebral designers"...	Fashion design	2008
Michel Virlogeux Michel Virlogeux Dr. Michel Virlogeux is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist.-Career:Michel Virlogeux graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1967 and from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1970...	Engineering design	2006
Massimo 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...	General design	1996
Yohji Yamamoto Yohji Yamamoto Yōji Yamamoto , is an award winning Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Yohji is considered to be among the master tailors whose work is thought to be of fashion genius and he has been described by Julie Gilhart, fashion director for Barney's New York as probably the only designer...	Fashion design	2006
Sori Yanagi	General design	2008
Hermann Zapf Hermann Zapf Hermann Zapf is a German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse....	Type design	1985
Eva Zeisel Eva Zeisel Eva Striker Zeisel is a Hungarian-born industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she immigrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships...	Ceramic design	2004

Past RDIs

• Tony Abbott, Television & theatre design, 1972
• Hardy Amies
  Hardy Amies
  Hardy Amies, Ltd. is a British-based fashion house specialising in modern luxury menswear.-Sir Edwin Hardy Amies:Sir Edwin Hardy Amies, KCVO , was a British fashion designer, best known for his official title as dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II, from her accession to the throne until his...
  
  , Dress design, 1964
• Edward Abbott, Illustration, 1974
• Jon Bannenberg
  Jon Bannenberg
  Jon Bannenberg was a yacht designerBorn in Australia, Bannenberg studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. In 1952 he moved to London and his career began to morph towards its final destination: from music to stage design to opening an interior design shop with his first wife and ultimately...
  
  , Motor yachts, 1978
• Christian Barnard, Transport equipment, 1948
• Edward Bawden
  Edward Bawden
  Edward Bawden, CBE, RA was a British painter, illustrator and graphic artist. He was also famous for his prints, book covers, posters, and garden metalwork furniture...
  
  , Graphics, 1949
• Gerald Benney, Silversmithing, 1971
• Misha Black
  Misha Black
  Sir Misha Black was an Azerbaijan-born British architect and designer. In 1933 he founded with associates in London the organisation which became the Artists’ International Association. From 1959 to 1975 he was a professor of industrial design at the Royal College of Art in London, England...
  
  , Exhibitions & interiors, 1957
• John Box
  John Box
  John Allan Hyatt Box OBE, , was a British film production designer and art director. During his career he won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won its BAFTA equivalent three times, making him the most decorated film designer of all time...
  
  , Film production design, 1992
• Bill Brandt
  Bill Brandt
  Bill Brandt was an influential British photographer and photojournalist known for his high-contrast images of British society and his distorted nudes and landscapes.-Career and life:...
  
  , Photography, 1978
• William Brown
  William Brown (bridge designer)
  William Brown was a structural engineer and bridge designer who specialised in suspension bridges. He is credited with the idea of designing bridge decks with an aerofoil-shaped cross section for stability in a wide variety of wind conditions.He was one of the principal designers at Freeman Fox &...
  
  , Bridge design, 1977
• Stefan Buzas, Exhibitions & interiors, 1961
• Reco Capey, General design, 1937
• Hugh Casson
  Hugh Casson
  Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson, KCVO, RA, RDI, was a British architect, interior designer, artist, and influential writer and broadcaster on 20th century design. He is particularly noted for his role as director of architecture at the 1951 Festival of Britain on London's South Bank.Casson's family...
  
  , Exhibitions, 1961
• Achille Castiglioni
  Achille Castiglioni
  Achille Castiglioni was a renowned Italian industrial designer. He was often inspired by everyday things and made use of ordinary materials...
  
  , General design, 1986
• Hulme Chadwick, Product design, 1974
• Colin Chapman
  Colin Chapman
  Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE was an influential British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars....
  
  , Automotive design, 1979
• Wells Coates
  Wells Coates
  Wells Wintemute Coates OBE was an architect, designer and writer. He was, for most of his life, an ex-patriate Canadian architect who is best known for his work in England...
  
  , General design, 1944
• Christopher Cockerell
  Christopher Cockerell
  Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE FRS was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft.-Life:Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, having previously been the secretary of William Morris. Christopher Cockerell was...
  
  , Engineering design, 1987
• Douglas Cockerell, Bookbinding, 1936
• Susie Cooper
  Susie Cooper
  Susie Cooper 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 Stanfields, Stoke-on-Trent, she was the youngest of seven children...
  
  , Pottery, 1940
• Kay Cosserat, Textile design, 1986
• Edward Gordon Craig
  Edward Gordon Craig
  Edward Henry Gordon Craig , sometimes known as Gordon Craig, was an English modernist theatre practitioner; he worked as an actor, director and scenic designer, as well as developing an influential body of theoretical writings...
  
  , Stage design, 1937
• Gordon Cullen
  Gordon Cullen
  Thomas Gordon Cullen was an influential English architect and urban designer who was a key motivator in the Townscape movement. He is best known for the book The Concise Townscape, first published in 1961.-Biography:Cullen was born in Calverley, Pudsey, near Leeds...
  
  , Illustration & townscape design, 1975
• Robin Day
  Robin Day (designer)
  Robin Day, OBE, FCSD was a British chartered industrial and furniture designer, best-known for the injection moulded polypropylene stacking chair, more than 20 million of which have been manufactured...
  
  , Furniture & exhibitions, 1959
• Lucienne Day
  Lucienne Day
  Désirée Lucienne Day RDI was a British textile designer. Inspired by abstract art, she pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns in post-war England, and was eventually celebrated worldwide....
  
  , Textiles, 1962
• Richard Eckersley, Book design, 1999
• Tom Eckersley
  Tom Eckersley
  Tom Eckersley 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 Art School, where his abilities were soon recognised and he was awarded the Heywood Medal for...
  
  , Posters, 1963
• Alan Fletcher
  Alan Fletcher (graphic designer)
  Alan Gerard Fletcher was a British graphic designer. In his obituary, he was described by The Daily Telegraph as "the most highly regarded graphic designer of his generation, and probably one of the most prolific"....
  
  , Graphics & publicity design, 1972
• Uffa Fox
  Uffa Fox
  Uffa Fox CBE was an English boat designer and sailing enthusiast.-Life:Uffa Fox was born on the Isle of Wight and was raised in East Cowes. He lived for a while in Puckaster on the Isle of Wight.-Work:...
  
  , Small boats, 1955
• Barnett Freedman
  Barnett Freedman
  Barnett Freedman CBE was a British artist, commercial designer, book illustrator, typographer, and lithographer.Freedman, the son of East-End Russian-Jewish immigrants, was self-educated during four years in hospitals, between the ages of nine and thirteen, because of asthma that was to trouble...
  
  , Graphics, 1949
• Roger Furse
  Roger K. Furse
  Roger Kemble Furse was an English art director and costume designer of stage and film.-Career:The son of Lieutenant General Sir William Furse, Roger Furse was educated at Eton and the Slade School of Fine Arts....
  
  , Stage & film design, 1949
• Abram Games
  Abram Games
  Abram Games OBE, RDI was a British graphic designer.Born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel, London on the day World War I began in 1914, he was the son of Joseph Gamse, a Latvian photographer, and Sarah, a seamstress born on the border of Russia and Poland. His father anglicized the family name to...
  
  , Posters, 1959
• James Gardener, Exhibitions, 1947
• J Laurent Giles
  John Laurent Giles
  John Laurent Giles was a famous yacht designer. He and his company designed more than 1000 boats from cruises, racing yachts to "megayachts". He is best known for his design of displacement sailing yachts like the famous 7.6 meter Vertue of which 230 boats made, or Wanderer III...
  
  , Yachts, 1951
• Eric Gill
  Eric Gill
  Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...
  
  , Typography & wood engraving, 1936
• Robert Goodden, General design, 1947
• Duncan Grant
  Duncan Grant
  Duncan James Corrowr Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, potterty and theatre sets and costumes...
  
  , Printed textiles, 1941
• Eileen Gray
  Eileen Gray
  Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.- Biography :...
  
  , Furniture & interiors, 1972
• Milner Gray
  Milner Gray (designer)
  Milner Connorton Gray was one of the key figures of British industrial design in the 20th century, having played an important role in establishing design as a recognized profession, the emergence of British design consultancies, and the development of Design Management...
  
  , Packaging, 1937
• E W Grieve, Shop window display, 1940
• Jacqueline Groag, Textile design, 1964
• Edmund Happold
  Edmund Happold
  Professor Sir Edmund Happold , better known as Ted Happold, was a structural engineer and founder of Buro Happold.- Career :...
  
  , Engineering design, 1983
• Geoffrey de Havilland
  Geoffrey de Havilland
  Captain Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, OM, CBE, AFC, RDI, FRAeS, was a British aviation pioneer and aircraft engineer...
  
  , Aircraft, 1944
• Ashley Havinden, Graphics, 1947
• Lionel Haworth, Engineering design, 1976
• Ambrose Heal
  Ambrose Heal
  Sir Ambrose Heal was an English furniture designer, and businessman in the first half of the 20th century....
  
  , Furniture, 1939
• F H K Henrion
  Henri Kay Henrion
  Henri Kay Henrion , was a German graphic designer.After leaving school he went to Paris, and worked in textile design sweatshop before studying with poster designer Paul Colin. In 1936 he moved instead to England, to work in poster design. He designed a Modern Architectural Research Group of...
  
  , Packaging & graphics, 1959
• Jocelyn Herbert
  Jocelyn Herbert
  Jocelyn Herbert RDI was a highly influential British stage designer.-Early life:Born in London, she was the second of the four children of the playwright, novelist, humorist and parliamentarian A. P. Herbert . Through him she had contact with theatre people, artists and writers...
  
  , Theatre & cinema design, 1971
• Robert Heritage, Furniture, 1963
• George Him, Graphic design, 1977
• James Hogan
  James Hogan
  James Hogan may refer to:* James Thomas Hogan , New Zealand politician* James Patrick Hogan , American filmmaker* James P...
  
  , Glass & stained glass, 1936
• Paul Hogarth
  Paul Hogarth
  Paul Hogarth, OBE, RA 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 Greene's books....
  
  , Illustration, 1979
• Charles Holden
  Charles Holden
  Charles Henry Holden, Litt. D., FRIBA, MRTPI, RDI was a Bolton-born English architect best known for designing many London Underground stations during the 1920s and 1930s, for Bristol Central Library, the Underground Electric Railways Company of London's headquarters at 55 Broadway and for the...
  
  , Transport equipment, 1943
• Jack Howe
  Jack Howe (architect)
  Jack Howe was an architect and industrial designer who worked on Impington Village College as an architect and the Chubb cash dispenser MD2 as an industrial designer.-Early life:...
  
  , Products and industrial equipment, 1961
• Ian Hutt, Typographic & Newspaper design, 1970
• Laurence Irving
  Laurence Irving (set designer)
  Squadron Leader Laurence Irving OBE was an artist, book illustrator and Hollywood set designer and art director, the son of actors H. B. Irving and Dorothea Baird, and the biographer of his grandfather, the noted Victorian era actor Henry Irving. His sister was the actress and founder of the Keep...
  
  , date tbc
• Alec Issigonis
  Alec Issigonis
  Sir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959.- Early life:Issigonis was born into the Greek community of Smyrna ...
  
  , Motor cars, 1964
• Natasha Kroll, Shop display and television design, 1966
• Lynton Lamb
  Lynton Lamb
  Lynton Lamb RDI, FSRA, FSIA was an English artist-designer, Author, lithographer and illustrator who was notable for his book jacket, poster, architectural decoration and postage stamp designs....
  
  , Book design & illustration, 1974
• Osbert Lancaster
  Osbert Lancaster
  Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE was an English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer, best known to the public at large for his cartoons published in the Daily Express.-Biography:Lancaster was born in London, England...
  
  , Illustration, 1979
• Margaret Leischner, Textiles, 1969
• Richard Levin, Television design, 1971
• Noel London, Engineering product design, 1973
• William Lyons
  William Lyons
  Sir William Lyons , known as "Mr. Jaguar", was with fellow motorcycle enthusiast William Walmsley, the co-founder in 1922 of the Swallow Sidecar Company, which became Jaguar Cars Limited after the Second World War....
  
  , Motor cars, 1964
• Ethel Mairet, Woven textiles, 1937
• Eric de Maré
  Eric de Maré
  Eric de Maré was a British photographer and author, described as one of the greatest British architectural photographers.de Maré was born in London on the 10 September 1910, of Swedish parents, Bror and Ingrid de Maré. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London before becoming a student of the...
  
  , Photography, 1997
• Enid Marx
  Enid Marx
  Enid Crystal Dorothy Marx FRSA was an English painter and designer. She was born in London, England, on 20 October 1902 and died in London on 18 May 1998...
  
  , Pattern design, 1944
• J H Mason, 1936
• James McNeill
  James McNeill
  James McNeill was an Irish politician and diplomat, who served as first High Commissioner to London and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State....
  
  , Ships, 1950
• David Mellor, Silver, cutlery & lighting, 1962
• Percy Metcalfe
  Percy Metcalfe
  Percy Metcalfe, CVO, RDI , was an English artist sculptor and designer.He studied art in Leeds, and in 1914 attended the Royal College of Art London....
  
  , Medals & coinage, 1937
• Francis Meynell
  Francis Meynell
  Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press.He was son of the writer Alice Meynell, a suffragist and prominent Roman Catholic convert. Francis Meynell was brought in by George Lansbury to be business manager of the Daily Herald in 1913. He was...
  
  , Typography, 1940
• Edward Molyneux
  Edward Molyneux
  Edward Henry Molyneux was a British fashion designer whose fashion house in Paris was in operation from 1919 until 1950.- Overview :Born in London to Justin Molyneux and Lizzy Kenny, Edward Molyneux attended Beaumont College, a Roman Catholic preparatory school...
  
  , Dress, 1950
• 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...
  
  , Type design & typography, 1960
• Alastair Morton, textiles, 1960
• Jean Muir
  Jean Muir
  Jean Elizabeth Muir, CBE, FCSD was an English fashion designer .-History and early career:...
  
  , Dress design, 1972
• H G Murphy, Goldsmithing, 1936
• Keith Murray, Glass, pottery & silver, 1936
• Charles Nicholson, Yachts, 1944
• Julia Trevelyan Oman, Theatre & film design, 1977
• Brian O'Rorke, Interiors, 1939
• Eric Carlton Ottaway, Road passenger vehicles, 1949
• Derek Prime, Engineering design, 1982
• Ian Proctor, 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
  Sydney Gordon Russell
  Sir Gordon Russell was an English designer, craftsman and educationist.He came under the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement from 1904 after his father had moved to Broadway in the Cotswolds to be hotelier at the Lygon Arms, through the Guild of Handicraft, the community of metalworkers,...
  
  , Furniture, 1940
• R D Russell, Furniture, 1944
• Hans Schleger, Exhibition display & packaging, 1959
• Mr Hans Schmoller, Typography, 1976
• Douglas Scott, Industrial designer, 1974
• George Sheringham, Interior decoration & textiles, 1936
• Peter Simpson, Woven Textile design, 1974
• Percy Delf Smith, Lettering, 1940
• Basil Spence
  Basil Spence
  Sir Basil Urwin Spence, OM, OBE, RA 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 Modernist/Brutalist style.-Training:Spence was born in Bombay, India, the son of Urwin...
  
  , 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
  Marianne Straub was one of the leading designers of textiles in Britain during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.She was born in the village of Amriswil, Switzerland on 23 September 1909. Her father was a textile merchant so it was no surprise that she was soon attracted to a career in textiles. She studied...
  
  , Woven textiles, 1972
• Fred Taylor, Graphics, 1936
• Philip Thompson, Graphics & illustration, 1997
• Walter Tracy
  Walter Tracy
  Walter Valentine Tracy RDI was an English typographer and writer and designer of books, magazines, and newspapers.- Biography :Walter Tracy was born in Islington, London and attended Shoreditch Secondary school. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to the large printing firm William Clowes as...
  
  , Type design, 1973
• Howard Upjohn, Engineering product design, 1973
• C F A Voysey, Interior decoration, furniture & fabrics, 1936
• Barnes Wallis
  Barnes Wallis
  Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, CBE FRS, RDI, FRAeS , was an English scientist, engineer and inventor. He is best known for inventing the bouncing bomb used by the RAF in Operation Chastise to attack the dams of the Ruhr Valley during World War II...
  
  , Aircraft, 1943
• Allan Walton, Printed textiles, 1940
• Neville Ward, Interior design & ship interiors, 1971
• John Waterer, Leather Goods, 1953
• Hans Wegner
  Hans Wegner
  Hans Jørgen Wegner, , was a successful Danish furniture designer who contributed to the international popularity of mid-century Danish design. His work belongs to a modernist school with emphasis on functionality. He is probably best known for his chairs.-Early years:Born to cobbler Peter M...
  
  , Furniture, 1969
• Robert Welch, Product design & silversmithing, 1965
• Frank Whittle
  Frank Whittle
  Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS was a British Royal Air Force engineer officer. He is credited with independently inventing the turbojet engine Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS (1 June 1907 – 9 August 1996) was a British Royal Air...
  
  , Engineering design, 1985
• Berthold Wolpe
  Berthold Wolpe
  Berthold Ludwig Wolpe OBE was a German typeface designer and teacher.Wolpe was born in Offenbach, Germany. Trained as a calligrapher with Rudolf Koch at the Offenbach Workshops, as well as a silversmith. The dual knowledge of these crafts informed his thinking about letter design...
  
  , Typefaces & lettering, 1959
• Anna Zinkeisen, Graphics & mural painting, 1940

Past Honorary RDIs

• Edward McKnight Kauffer
  Edward McKnight Kauffer
  Edward McKnight Kauffer was an influential American-born artist noted for his avant garde graphic design and poster art, especially in England....
  
  , Commercial art, 1936
• Alvar Aalto
  Alvar Aalto
  Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware...
  
  , General design, 1947
• Franco Albini
  Franco Albini
  Franco Albini was an Italian Neo-Rationalist architect and designer.A native of Robbiate, near Milan, Albini obtained his degree in architecture at Politecnico di Milano University in 1929 and began his professional career working for Gio Ponti. He started displaying his works at...
  
  , Interiors, exhibitions & furniture, 1971
• Gordon Andrews, General design, 1987
• Saul Bass
  Saul Bass
  Saul Bass was a Jewish-American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences....
  
  , Film & TV graphics, 1964
• 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...
  
  , Graphic design, 1984
• Richard Buckminster Fuller, Architecture & design, 1980
• Nanna Ditzel
  Nanna Ditzel
  Nanna Ditzel was a Danish furniture designer.She studied at the Danish School of Arts and Crafts and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen graduating in 1946. Her works include cabinet-making, jewellery, tableware and textiles...
  
  , Product design, 1996
• Charles Eames, Furniture, exhibitions & interiors, 1960
• Jean-Michel Folon
  Jean-Michel Folon
  Jean-Michel Folon was a Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. Folon was born in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium in 1934 where he studied architecture at the Institut Saint-Luc. In 1955 he settled in a gardener’s house in the outskirts of Paris. Over a period of five years he drew morning,...
  
  , Illustration, 1981
• André François
  André François
  André François , born André Farkas, was a Hungarian-born French cartoonist.He was born to a Hungarian Jewish family in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary , He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest . He moved to Paris in 1934 and entered to the atelier of the famous poster artist Adolphe Cassandre...
  
  , Graphics 1974
• Shigeo Fukada, Graphic design, 1986
• Alexander Girard
  Alexander Girard
  Alexander Girard affectionately known as Sandro, was an architect and a textile designer born in New York City to an American mother from Boston and a French-Italian father. He was raised in Florence, Italy...
  
  , Interiors, exhibitions & furnishing textiles, 1965
• Walter Gropius
  Walter Gropius
  Walter Adolph Georg Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School who, along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture....
  
  , General design, 1947
• Edward Hald, Glass, 1939
• Walter Herdeg, Graphic design, 1976
• Christian Joachim, Pottery, 1939
• CL 'Kelly' Johnson
  Clarence Johnson
  Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson was an aircraft engineer and aeronautical innovator. As a member and first team leader of the Lockheed Skunk Works, Johnson worked for more than four decades and is said to have been an "organizing genius"...
  
  , Aircraft design, 1984
• Finn Juhl
  Finn Juhl
  Finn Juhl was a Danish architect, interior and industrial designer, most known for his furniture design. He was one of the leading figures in the creation of "Danish design" in the 1940s and he was the designer who introduced Danish Modern to America.-Early life and education:Finn Juhl was born on...
  
  , Furniture & interiors, 1978
• Dora Jung, Woven textiles, 1979
• Kaare Klint, Furniture, 1949
• Takashi Kono, Graphics, 1983
• Raymond Loewy
  Raymond Loewy
  Raymond Loewy was an industrial designer, and the first to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine, on October 31, 1949. Born in France, he spent most of his professional career in the United States...
  
  , General design, 1939
• Vico Magistretti
  Vico Magistretti
  Vico Magistretti was an Italian industrial designer, known as a furniture designer and architect.-Education:...
  
  , General design, 1992
• Pierre Mendell, Graphic design, 1999
• Bruno Mathsson
  Bruno Mathsson
  Bruno Mathsson was a Swedish furniture designer and architect with ideas colored by functionalism/modernism, as well as old Swedish crafts tradition. Being the son of a carpenter in the town of Värnamo in the South of Sweden, it was fairly obvious what work the young Bruno would choose...
  
  , Furniture, 1978
• 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...
  
  , Graphics & photography, 1982
• Norman McLaren
  Norman McLaren
  Norman McLaren, CC, CQ was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada...
  
  , Film Animation, 1986
• Borge Mogensen
  Borge Mogensen
  Børge Mogensen , was a Danish furniture designer.He was one of the most important among a generation of furniture designers who made the concept of “Danish design” known throughout the world...
  
  , Furniture, 1972
• Josef Muller-Brockmann
  Josef Müller-Brockmann
  Josef Müller-Brockmann, , was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he...
  
  , Graphic design, 1988
• George Nelson
  George Nelson
  George Nelson may refer to:*George Nelson , Lord Mayor of London*George Nelson *George Nelson , American*George Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford , British engineer...
  
  , General design, 1973
• Marcello Nizzoli
  Marcello Nizzoli
  Marcello Nizzoli was an Italian artist, architect, industrial and graphic designer. He was the chief designer for Olivetti for many years and was responsible notably for the iconic Lettera 22 portable typewriters in 1950....
  
  , Typewriters & calculating machines, 1961
• Antti Nurmesniemi
  Antti Nurmesniemi
  Antti Nurmesniemi was a Finnish designer. His work includes enamel coffee pots and furniture such as the Jakkara sauna stool, as well as interior design work. He has been referred to as the "Grand Old Man of Finnish Design", and he won the Lunning Prize in 1959...
  
  , General design, 1986
• Sigurd Persson, General design, 1987
• Battista Farina
  Battista Farina
  Battista "Pinin" Farina was an Italian automobile designer, the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars....
  
  , Motor cars, 1954
• 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...
  
  , Graphics, 1973
• Steen Eiler Rasmussen
  Steen Eiler Rasmussen
  Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a Danish architect and urban planner who was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and a prolific writer of books and poetry...
  
  , General design, 1947
• Astrid Sampe
  Astrid Sampe
  Astrid Sampe was a Swedish textile designer who for a large part of her professional life was affiliated with the textile department at Nordiska Kompaniet but also worked for several other textile producers....
  
  , Textile design, 1949
• WHJB Sandberg, Exhibition & museum display, typography, 1971
• Timo Sarpaneva
  Timo Sarpaneva
  Timo Sarpaneva was an influential Finnish designer, sculptor, and educator best known in the art world for innovative work in glass, which often merged attributes of display art objects with utilitarian designations. While glass remained his most commonly addressed medium, he worked with metal,...
  
  , Pottery & textiles, 1963
• Carlo Scarpa
  Carlo Scarpa
  Carlo Scarpa , was an Italian architect, influenced by the materials, landscape, and the history of Venetian culture, and Japan. Scarpa was also a glass and furniture designer of note....
  
  , Exhibitions, interiors & museum design, 1969
• Saul Steinberg
  Saul Steinberg
  Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...
  
  , Illustration, 1980
• Olin Stephens
  Olin Stephens
  Olin James Stephens II was an American yacht designer of the 20th century. Stephens was born in New York, but spent his summers with his brother Rod, learning to sail on the New England coast. He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a term.Stephens' name had a long history...
  
  , Yacht design, 1975
• Josef Svoboda
  Josef Svoboda
  Josef Svoboda was a Czech artist and scenic designer.Svoboda was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia . He began his training as an architect at the Central School of Housing in Prague. At the end of World War II he became interested in theatre and design...
  
  , Theatre design, 1989
• Ilmari Tapiovaara
  Ilmari Tapiovaara
  Ilmari Tapiovaara was a Finnish designer noted for his furnishings and textiles.- Education and work :...
  
  , Furniture, 1969
• Walter Dorwin Teague
  Walter Dorwin Teague
  Walter Dorwin Teague was an American architect, designer and one of the most prolific American industrial designers in terms of volume of completed work. Teague's name and vision lives on through the legacy of his company....
  
  , General design, 1951
• Henryk Tomaszewski, Graphics, 1975
• Roland Topor
  Roland Topor
  Roland Topor , was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work...
  
  , Illustration, 1988
• 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...
  
  , Typography & book design, 1965
• Tapio Wirkkala
  Tapio Wirkkala
  File:Wirkkala.jpgTapio Wirkkala was a Finnish designer and sculptor, a major figure of post-war design. His work ranges from plastic ketchup bottles and metalware to glass, ceramics and plywood in a range of styles. He designed the Finnish markka banknotes introduced in 1955...
  
  , Glass, wood & silver, 1964
• 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 :...
  
  , Graphic design, 1990
• Piet Zwart
  Piet Zwart
  Piet Zwart was a Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer.- Examples of His Artwork :He started his career as an architect and worked for Jan Wils and Berlage....
  
  , Typography, 1966