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Best Good Design awarded designers

Throughout the years and since 1950 the Chicago Athenaeum Museum and the Good Design Award program have presented and awarded some of the best and most accredited designers and design firms from around the world. By participating at the Good Design Awards program either as a designer, firm, agency or client you are becoming an intrinsic part of this great design pattern. See our list with some of the greatest designers in the world who have been awarded with the Good Design Award.

top designers awarded with good design 1st row (from left to right):
ADRIAN VAN HOOYDONK, ALBERTO MEDA, ALESSANDRO LOSCHIAVO, ALFREDO HABERLI, ALVAR AALTO

2nd row (from left to right):
ANDREAS ENSLIN, ANDREAS MUHLENBEREND, ANNE KYYROQUINN, ANTOINE FRITSCH, ANTONIO CITTERIO

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
ANTTI KUJALA, ARIK LEVY, ARMAN EMAMI, AXEL MEYER, AYKUT EROL

2nd row (from left to right):
EDWARD BARBER & JAY OSGERBY, YVES BEHAR, BERNHARD GEISEN, ROBERT BRUNNER

1st row (from left to right):
RONAN & ERWAN BOUROULLEC, MATTS BROBERG & JOHAN RIDDERSTRALE, ANNA CASTELLI FERRIERI

2nd row (from left to right):

FLEMMING BUSK & STEPHAN HERTZOG, CHARLES EAMES, CHRISTIAN BOKENKAMP, CHRISTOPH INGENHOVEN

1st row (from left to right):
CHRISTOPHER BANGLE, MARTEN CLAESSON, EERO KOIVISTO & OLE RUNE, CLAUDE ZELLWEGER, DAMIAN MYCROFT

2nd row (from left to right):

DAN HARDIN, DANIELE LAGO, DAVID LEWIS, ROGER DUFFY, EERO AARNIO

1st row (from left to right):
EERO SAARINEN, EIJK AND JOOST VAN BLEISWIJK, EMILIANO GODOY, ERIC CHAN

2nd row (from left to right):

EOOS DESIGN, FABRIZIO GIUGIARO, FERNANDO PRADO, MARKUS FISCHER

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
FLORENCE KNOLL, FLORIN BAERISWYL, SIR NORMAN FOSTER, FRANK PLACKE, NAOTO FUKASAWA

2nd row (from left to right):

GARRY EMERY, GEORGE NELSON, GERHARD REICHERT, GIANFRANCO ZACCAI, GIORGIO BORRUSO

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
GIOVANNI ALESSI ANGHINI, MORT GOLDSCHOLL, GORDON WAGENER, GREG BENSON

2nd row (from left to right):
HADID, HANNES WETTSTEIN, HARRY & CAMILA, HERBERT H. SCHULTES

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
IKKA SUPPANEN, ISSEY MIYAKE, TIMOTHY JACOB JENSEN, JAMES DYSON

2nd row (from left to right):
JASPER MORRISON, JAVIER MARISCAL, MARKUS JENS & JURGEN LAUB, JOCHEN HAHNE

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
JOE DOUCET, JOHN PAWSON, JONATHAN IVE, JONATHAN OLIVARES, JORGE PENSI

2nd row (from left to right):

JOSH OWEN, KAJ FRANCK, KASHIWA SATO, KATI MEYER-BRUHL, KEN MUSGRAVE

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
KLAUS BISCHOFF, KONSTANTIN GRCIC, KORKUT AVCI, LAURENZ SCHAFFER, LEO AERTS

2nd row (from left to right):

ANTOINE & PHILIPPE CAHEN, MARC KRUSIN, MARC NAGEL, MARC SADLER

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
MARCEL WANDERS, MAREK REICHMANN, MARIO BELLINI, MARKO AHTISAARI, MARTI GUIXE

2nd row (from left to right):

MARTIN BALLENDAT, MARTIN DARYBSHIRE, PETER MARTIN & DANIEL KARCZINSKI, J. MAYS

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
ALESSANDRO MENDINI, MICHAEL BIERUT, MICHAEL GRAVES, MICHAEL LANZ, MICHAEL SOHN

2nd row (from left to right):

MIKKO KARKKAINEN, MORISON S. COUSINS, NICHOLAS GRIMSHAW, KLAUS NIENKAMPER & KLAUS NIENKAMPER

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
NIKOLAUS FRANK, NILS HOLGER, JEAN NOUVEL, OGUZ & ECE YALIM

2nd row (from left to right):

OLIVER GRABES, OMER ARBEL, PAOLO PININFARINA, LUKE PEARSON & TOM LLOYD

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
WILLIAM PEDERSEN, PETER PFEIFFER, PETER SCHREYER, PHILIPPE NIGRO, PIERO LISSONI

2nd row (from left to right):

TOM SCHONHERR & ANDREAS HAUG, ANDREA PININFARINA, RALPH APPELBAUM, DIETER RAMS

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
KARIM RASHID, RAVI SAWHNEY, REINER MOLL, RICHARD MEIER, SEAN CARNEY

2nd row (from left to right):

H. REINHARD SEGERS, PETER SHEEHAN, CHRISTIAN AND MICHAEL SIEGER, WALTER M. DE SILVA

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
ETTORE SOTTSAS, MATTHIAS STATHL, STEFAN BEHNISCH, STEFAN HEILIGER, STEFAN LINDFORS

2nd row (from left to right):

STEFANO GIOVANNONI, STEFANO MARZANO, STEFANO SANDONA, STEPHAN NIEHAUS, STUART KARTEN

designerslist 1st row (from left to right):
TAPIO ANTTILA, TAPIO WIRKKALA, TASSILO VON GROLMAN, WALTER DORWIN TEAGUE, THOMAS G. KEARNS

2nd row (from left to right):

THOMAS PAULEN, TOKUJIN YOSHIOKA, PATRICIA URQUIOLOA, WALTER M. DE SILVA, JONNAS WANNFORS

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