College of Medallists

The College of Medallists is an association of recipients of The Sir Misha Black Medal for Distinguished Services in Design Education. Misha Black (1910–1977) was a pioneer of design in Britain. The College of Medallists was established in 2000, and joined the Founding Bodies (the Design and Industries Association, the Royal College of Art (RCA), the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI) at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), and the Royal Academy of Engineering) in supporting the Sir Misha Black Awards. In 2020, the College of Medallists became part of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, with the Imperial College of London as a founding body.

Sir Misha Black Awards Committee

The Sir Misha Black Awards Committee comprises:

• Mary V. Mullin (chairman) – Design and Industries Association
• Professor Peter Childs, FREng, FIMechE, FASME – Imperial College London
• Professor Sir Christopher Frayling – College of Medallists
• Professor Malcolm Garrett MBE RDI FISTD – RSA Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry
• Professor Geoffrey Kirk RDI FREng – Royal Academy of Engineering
• Professor Chris Wise, RDI, FREng - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851
• Dr Nick de Leon – Co-opted Member

Medal recipients

Year	Name	Country	Biography
2021	Don Norman	USA	Norman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Sciences and Founding Director of the Design Lab at the University of California.
2020	Birgit Mager	Germany	Mager is the first ever Professor of Service Design at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
2018	P John Clarkson	UK	Clarkson takes a ground-breaking approach in the modelling of design processes and change propagation within complex systems.
2016	Margaret Calvert OBE RDI	UK	Calvert is best known for her pioneering work with Jock Kinneir designing the UK's road signage system.
2015	Ravi Naidoo	South Africa	Naidoo is the founder and managing director of Interactive Africa. In 1995, he founded Design Indaba, an annual international design conference in Cape Town.
2014	Michael Twyman	UK	In 1968, Twyman founded the department of typography and graphic communication at the University of Reading.
2013	Santiago Aránguiz Sánchez	Chile	Sánchez is the dean of the school of design at Universidad del Pacifico.
2012	Ezio Manzini	Italy	Manzini is a design researcher, writer, and educator.
2011	Kumar Vyas	India	Vyas is a designer and educator.
2009	Judy Frater	India, US	Frater is the founder of the Kala Raksha school, dedicated to preserving and advancing Indian craft.
2008	Gonzalo Tassier	Mexico	Tassier is a graphic designer and publicity specialist from Mexico City.
2007	Alison Chitty	UK	Chitty is a production designer and set and costume designer who has won an Olivier Award. She has collaborated with Mike Leigh, Francesca Zambello and Peter Hall.
2006	Geoffrey Kirk RDI	UK	Geoffrey Kirk is a designer who has worked for Rolls-Royce.
2005	David M. Kelley	US	Kelley is an American businessman, entrepreneur, designer, engineer and teacher. He is founder, chairman and managing partner of the design firm IDEO and a professor at Stanford University.
2004	Elaine Ostroff	US	In 1992, Ostroff established the Universal Design Education Project, an inter-varsity project in design. She introduced similar schemes to Europe and Asia.
2004	David Hamilton	UK	Hamilton was employed in the faculty of the Royal College of Art in the field of ceramic art.
2003	Christopher Frayling	UK	Frayling is a British educationalist and writer, and former rector of the Royal College of Art, known also for his studies of popular culture.
2002	Santiago Calatrava	Spain	Calatrava is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer.
2001	Yuri Soloviev	Russia	Soloviev was a Russian designer, editor and director of the Architecture and Art Bureau.
2000	Robert Godden RDI	UK	Godden was British designer prominent in the British design movements following World War II.
2000	Richard Guyatt	UK	Guyatt was a British graphic designer who played a key role in 20th century graphic design.
1999	Ettore Sottsass Hon RDI	Italy	Sottsass was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century.
1998	William Walsh	Ireland	Walsh was an important figure in design in Ireland from the early 1960s to the late 1980s.
1997	Alex Moulton RDI	UK	Moulton was a designer in the field of rubber suspension systems for cars and bicycles.
1995	Kenji Ekuan	Japan	Ekuan was a prominent Japanese designer who was head of Design for the World, the Japan Industrial Designers Association and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design. He was a founding member of the group that became GK Design.
1993	Arthur Pulos	US	Pulos was an industrial designer, author and educator was chairman of the department of design at Syracuse University.
1993	Marianne Straub RDI	UK	Straub was a textile designer of the 1940s, 50s and 60s in Britain.
1991	David Pye	UK	Pye was a member of the faculty of the Royal College of Art.
1988	Peter Reyner Banham	UK	Banham was an English architectural critic and writer of the treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960) and Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. (1971)
1986	Frank Height	UK	Height was an industrial designer and educator who was a member of the faculty of the Royal College of Art in the field of industrial design.
1985	Ashoke Chatterjee	India	From 1975 to 1985, Chatterjee was executive director of the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.
1982	Max Bill	Switzerland	Bill was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer.
1980	Serge Ivan Chermayeff Hon RDI	US	Chermayeff was a Russian born, British architect, industrial designer, writer and co-founder of the American Society of Planners and Architects.
1978	William Coldstream OBE	UK	Coldstream was a British realist painter and art teacher.

External links

• The Sir Misha Black Awards