The National Design Award, founded in 1997, is funded and awarded by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Awards are given to contemporary inventors and creators in six categories:

• Lifetime Achievement
• Corporate Achievement
• Architecture Design
• Communications Design
• Environment Design
• Fashion Design (created in 2002)
• Product Design
• Design Patron

Some years, the category "American Original" is specially created by the jury.

Recipients

Year	Winner
	Lifetime Achievement	Corporate Achievement	Architecture Design	Communications Design	Environment Design	Fashion Design	Product Design	Design Patron	American Original
2000	Frank Gehry	Apple Computer	N/A	Ralph Appelbaum	Lawrence Halprin	N/A	Paul MacCready	N/A	American Original: John Hejduk and Morris Lapidus
2001	Robert Wilson	Tupperware	Peter Eisenman	John Maeda	Julie Bargmann	N/A	David Kelly	Stanley Marcus	N/A
2002	Dan Kiley	Whirlpool Corporation	Steven Holl	Lucille Tenazas	James Carpenter	N/A	Niels Diffrient	Andre Balazs	Geoffrey Beene
2003	I.M. Pei	Target Coporation	Billie Tsien and Tod Williams	Robert Greenberg	Michael Van Valkenburgh	Tom Ford	Herman Miller	Gordon Segal	N/A
2004	Milton Glaser	Aveda Corporation	Rick Joy and Polshek Partnership	Jon Kamen	William A. McDonough and partners	Yeohlee Teng	Yves Béhar	Amanda M. Burden	N/A

External Links

• National Design Awards