The National Design Awards and National Design Week are made possible by the generous sponsorship of
Additional support provided by Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramics.
The annual National Design Awards honor outstanding contributions from the design world, including architecture, fashion, lifetime achievement, and sustainable design solutions. Nominated by a nationwide community of advisors, National Design Award winners and finalists will this year be selected by a jury of past winners. As part of National Design Week, the National Design Awards celebrates excellence in design with a number of special events and educational opportunities.
The 2009 National Design Award Jury is chaired by John Maeda, President of Rhode Island School of Design. This year’s jurors are Steve Frykholm, Vice President of Creative Design, Herman Miller; Michael Maharam, Maharam; Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience, Google, Inc. and Margaret Stewart, User Experience Manager, YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, Inc.; Sigi Moeslinger, Antenna Design; Monica Ponce de Leon, Office dA; Ralph Rucci, Chado Ralph Rucci; Marc Tsurumaki, Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis; and Michael Van Valkenburgh, MVVA Landscape Architects.
The 2009 National Design Awards finalists and Award recipients will be announced later this spring. For any questions regarding the National Design Awards, please email designawards@si.edu.