The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum announced the initial winners and finalists in its fifth annual National Design Awards, honoring well-known luminaries such as Milton Glaser (for lifetime achievement) as well as one Bay Area rising star -- Yves Behar, founder and principal of the San Francisco industrial design firm fuseproject. (From SFGate)
Aveda won the Corporate Achievement award. Other finalists include Rick Joy, Polshek Partnerships, Joseph E. Spear (HOK Sports) and Rafael Vinoly for architecture; @radical.media, MTV Music Television and Second-Story for communications design; Andropogon Associates Ltd. and Ned Kahn, William McDonough & Partners for environment design; Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodrigues and Yeohlee Teng for fashion design; and Behar, Interface Inc. and Burt Rutan for product design.
+ From Adweek: Cooper-Hewitt Recognizes @radical.media
+ Associated Press
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The headline image is the White Knight aircraft by Burt Rutan, Product Design finalist
and by the way, Designboom has a new interview with the 2004 NDA Lifetime Achievement Winner Milton Glaser
the world health organization's international AIDS symbol and poster, 1987 by Glaser.
we got booted from the enviroment prize after the second round, damn you Bill McD - interesting to note that we not 'classifed' as architecture because none of us are licensed....
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