List of AIGA medalists

Following is a list of AIGA medalists who have been awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts medal.

On its website, AIGA says "The medal of the AIGA, the most distinguished in the field, is awarded to individuals in recognition of their exceptional achievements, services or other contributions to the field of graphic design and visual communication."

AIGA Medals have been awarded since 1920. Nine medals were awarded in the 1920s, seven in the 1930s, eight in the 1940s, twelve in the 1950s, ten in the 1960s, 13 in the 1970s, 13 in the 1980s, 33 in the 1990s, and 45 in the 2000s.

2022

 * Andrew Satake Blauvelt
 * Emily Oberman
 * Louise Sandhaus

=== 2021 ===


 * Archie Boston, Jr.
 * Cheryl D. Miller
 * Terry Irwin

2019

 * Alexander Girard
 * Geoff McFetridge
 * Debbie Millman

2018

 * Aaron Douglas
 * Arem Duplessis
 * Karin Fong
 * Susan Kare
 * Victor Moscoso

2017

 * Art Chantry
 * Emmett McBain
 * Rebeca Méndez
 * Mark Randall
 * Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell
 * Lance Wyman

2016

 * Ruth Ansel
 * Richard Grefé
 * Maira Kalman
 * Gere Kavanaugh
 * Corita Kent

2015

 * Paola Antonelli
 * Hillman Curtis
 * Emory Douglas
 * Dan Friedman
 * Marcia Lausen

2014

 * Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka
 * Charles S. Anderson
 * Dana Arnett
 * Kenneth Carbone and Leslie Smolan
 * David Carson
 * Kyle Cooper
 * Michael Patrick Cronan
 * Richard Danne
 * Michael Donovan and Nancye Green
 * Stephen Doyle
 * Louise Fili
 * Bob Greenberg
 * Sylvia Harris
 * Cheryl Heller
 * Alexander Isley
 * Chip Kidd
 * Michael Mabry
 * J. Abbott Miller
 * Bill Moggridge
 * Gael Towey
 * Ann Willoughby

2013

 * John Bielenberg
 * William Drenttel
 * Tobias Frere-Jones
 * Jessica Helfand
 * Jonathan Hoefler
 * Stefan Sagmeister
 * Lucille Tenazas
 * Wolfgang Weingart

2011

 * Ralph Caplan
 * Elaine Lustig Cohen
 * Armin Hofmann
 * Robert Vogele

2010

 * Steve Frykholm
 * John Maeda
 * Jennifer Morla

2009

 * Pablo Ferro
 * Carin Goldberg
 * Doyald Young

2008

 * Gail Anderson
 * Clement Mok
 * LeRoy Winbush

2007

 * Edward Fella
 * Ellen Lupton
 * Bruce Mau
 * Georg Olden

2006

 * Michael Bierut
 * Rick Valicenti
 * Lorraine Wild

2005

 * Bart Crosby
 * Meredith Davis
 * Steff Geissbuhler

2004

 * Joseph Binder
 * Charles Coiner
 * Richard, Jean and Patrick Coyne
 * James Cross
 * Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
 * Jay Doblin
 * Joe Duffy
 * Martin Fox
 * Caroline Warner Hightower
 * Kit Hinrichs
 * Walter Landor
 * Philip Meggs
 * James Miho
 * Silas Rhodes
 * Jack Stauffacher
 * Alex Steinweiss
 * Deborah Sussman
 * Edward Tufte
 * Fred Woodward
 * Richard Saul Wurman

2003

 * B. Martin Pedersen
 * Woody Pirtle

2002

 * Robert Brownjohn
 * Chris Pullman

2001

 * Samuel Antupit
 * Paula Scher

2000

 * P. Scott Makela and Laurie Haycock Makela
 * Fred Seibert
 * Michael Vanderbyl

1999

 * Tibor Kalman
 * Steven Heller
 * Katherine McCoy

1998

 * Louis Danziger
 * April Greiman

1997

 * Lucian Bernhard
 * Zuzana Licko and Rudy VanderLans

1996

 * Cipe Pineles
 * George Lois

1995

 * Matthew Carter
 * Stan Richards
 * Ladislav Sutnar

1994

 * Muriel Cooper
 * John Massey

1993

 * Alvin Lustig
 * Tomoko Miho

1992

 * Rudolph de Harak
 * George Nelson
 * Lester Beall

1991

 * Colin Forbes
 * E. McKnight Kauffer

1990

 * Alvin Eisenman
 * Frank Zachary

1980s

 * Paul Davis, 1989
 * Bea Feitler, 1989
 * William Golden, 1988
 * George Tscherny, 1988
 * Alexey Brodovitch, 1987
 * Gene Federico, 1987
 * Walter Herdeg, 1986
 * Seymour Chwast, 1985
 * Leo Lionni, 1984
 * Herbert Matter, 1983
 * Massimo Vignelli and Lella Vignelli, 1982
 * Saul Bass, 1981
 * Herb Lubalin, 1980

1970s

 * Ivan Chermayeff and Thomas Geismar, 1979
 * Lou Dorfsman, 1978
 * Charles and Ray Eames, 1977
 * Henry Wolf, 1976
 * Jerome Snyder, 1976
 * Bradbury Thompson, 1975
 * Robert Rauschenberg, 1974
 * Richard Avedon, 1973
 * Allen Hurlburt, 1973
 * Philip Johnson, 1973
 * Milton Glaser, 1972
 * Will Burtin, 1971
 * Herbert Bayer, 1970

1960s

 * Dr. Robert L. Leslie, 1969
 * Dr. Giovanni Mardersteig, 1968
 * Romana Javitz, 1967
 * Paul Rand, 1966
 * Leonard Baskin, 1965
 * Josef Albers, 1964
 * Saul Steinberg, 1963
 * William Sandberg, 1962
 * Paul A. Bennett, 1961
 * Walter Paepcke, 1960

1950s

 * May Massee, 1959
 * Ben Shahn, 1958
 * Dr. M. F. Agha, 1957
 * Ray Nash, 1956
 * P. J. Conkwright, 1955
 * Will Bradley, 1954
 * Jan Tschichold, 1954
 * George Macy, 1953
 * Joseph Blumenthal, 1952
 * Harry L. Gage, 1951
 * Earnest Elmo Calkins, 1950
 * Alfred A. Knopf, 1950

1940s

 * Lawrence C. Wroth, 1948
 * Elmer Adler, 1947
 * Stanley Morison, 1946
 * Frederic G. Melcher, 1945
 * Edward Epstean, 1944
 * Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, 1942
 * Carl Purington Rollins, 1941
 * Thomas M. Cleland, 1940

1930s

 * William A. Kittredge, 1939
 * Rudolph Ruzicka, 1935
 * J. Thompson Willing, 1935
 * Henry Lewis Bullen, 1934
 * Porter Garnett, 1932
 * Dard Hunter, 1931
 * Henry Watson Kent, 1930

1920s

 * William A. Dwiggins, 1929
 * Timothy Cole, 1927
 * Frederic W. Goudy, 1927
 * Burton Emmett, 1926
 * Bruce Rogers, 1925
 * John G. Agar, 1924
 * Stephen H. Horgan, 1924
 * Daniel Berkeley Updike, 1922
 * Norman T. A. Munder, 1920