Design Excellence Award. Photograph by Clint Blowers
Collab Design Excellence Award
Each year Collab presents the Design Excellence Award to a design professional or manufacturer whose impact on the field is inspirational. Recipients of this prestigious award >>- 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
For more information, please contact Collab: Supporters of Modern & Contemporary Design by e-mail at .