Collab Design Excellence Award

Collab’s annual Design Excellence Award honors a designer of international renown with a celebration and exhibition at the museum. This signature event has brought design icons to Philadelphia since 1986.

Recipients of this prestigious award

• 2021 Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
• 2020 Canceled due to COVID-19
• 2019 Collab: 50 Years of Great Design Anniversary Gala
• 2018 Dieter Rams
• 2017 Patricia Urquiola
• 2016 Design Excellence: New Generation Oki Sato, Faye Toogood & Zanini de Zanine
• 2015 Bruce Mau
• 2014 Rolf Fehlbaum of Vitra
• 2013 Marc Newson
• 2012 Paula Scher and Seymour Chwast
• 2011 Zaha Hadid
• 2010 Alberto Alessi
• 2009 Marcel Wanders
• 2008 Frank O. Gehry
• 2006 Georg Jensen
• 2005 Gaetano Pesce
• 2004 Florence Knoll Bassett
• 2003 Richard Gluckman
• 2002 Ingo Maurer
• 2001 No award given
• 2000 Milton Glaser
• 1999 Jonathan Ive, Maya Lin, and Karim Rashid
• 1998 Sir Terence Conran
• 1997 Philippe Starck and Ian Schrager
• 1996 Richard Meier
• 1995 Michael Graves
• 1994 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
• 1993 Swid Powell
• 1991 Jack Lenor Larsen
• 1989 Niels Diffrient
• 1988 Vignelli Associates
• 1986 George Nakashima

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