Final night time, at a joyful ceremony on the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum bestowed its coveted honors on the winners of the 2023 Nationwide Design Awards, recognizing innovation and influence throughout 10 classes. Holler loud and holler proud. The winners deserve all of it.
On the prime of the record, Seymour Chwast, 92, acquired due recognition as “Design Visionary” for his lifetime of labor as an editorial and kids’s ebook illustrator, typographer and kind designer, and co-founder of the legendary Push Pin Studio.
Who would have thought in 1954, on the inception of Chwast’s business artwork profession, that this humble creator of posters, commercials, animations, books and packages can be one of many preeminent figures—a pioneering and influential creator—within the firmament of worldwide visible tradition. Actually, he was extra shocked than the general public, who for many years have loved Chwast’s wit, creativeness and aesthetic joie de vivre. This honor, the capstone to an in any other case stellar (and decidedly never-ending) profession, brings pleasure to his many followers, together with the throngs who attended the Cooper Hewitt ceremony final night time, and to his colleagues and associates who’ve gained a lot from the instincts and insights embedded all through his artwork.
For twenty-four years, the Nationwide Design Awards have acknowledged the varied methods through which design enriches on a regular basis life. Recipients are chosen by a multidisciplinary jury of practitioners, educators and leaders from a variety of design fields. This yr, the remainder of the illustrious winners are:
- Biocement Tiles by Biomason, Local weather Motion
- Beatriz Lozano, Rising Designer
- nARCHITECTS, Structure
- Arem Duplessis, Communication Design
- Clement Mok, Digital Design
- Naeem Khan, Vogue Design
- The Archers, Inside Design
- Kongjian Yu, Panorama Structure
- Atlason, Product Design
“This yr’s Nationwide Design Award winners are a extremely various group—from a handcraft-focused dressmaker to one of many early pioneers of digital design—however they share many frequent traits: a extremely rigorous course of to their self-discipline, a very collaborative strategy and placing folks entrance and middle of their follow,” stated Dung Ngo, chair of the Nationwide Design Awards jury. “These are design core values value celebrating.”
