Royal Designers for Industry
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Royal Designer for Industry is a distinction established by the British Royal Society of Arts (or RSA) in 1936, to encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers. It is awarded to people who have achieved "sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry". Those who are British citizens take the letters RDI after their names, while those who are not become Honorary RDIs (HonRDI). Everyone who holds the distinction is a Member of The Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry (founded in 1938).
Their work is diverse, ranging from fashion to engineering, theatre to product design, graphics to environmental design.
New RDIs are elected annually and the Faculty continues to support initiatives to further excellence in design, including an annual Summer School for innovative young designers.
Only 200 designers may hold the distinction RDI at any time and it is regarded as the highest honour to be obtained in the United Kingdom in the field of Industrial Design. In addition, the RSA may confer HonRDI titles up to a maximum of half the number of people who currently hold the distinction RDI.
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[edit] Who are the RDIs and Hon RDIs?
There are currently 113 RDIs and 48 HonRDIs spanning every area of design. It is a lifetime award, but the lists below show current members (ie, those RDIs who are still alive), and former members (those who have died).
Click here for a current list of Royal Designers for Industry [1]
[edit] Current members
The date of their award is shown after the name of the category for which they were honoured.
[edit] RDIs
Name Category Year
Dennis Bailey Illustration & Design 1980
John Barnard Engineering Design 1995
Gerald Benney Silversmithing 1971
Derek Birdsall Graphic Design 1983
Peter Brookes Graphic Design 2002
Julian Brown Product Design 1998
Nicholas Butler Product Design 1981
Stefan Buzas Exhibitions & Interiors 1961
Ian Callum Automotive 2006
Donald Cameron Engineering Design 2004
David Carter Product Design 1974
Ron Carter Furniture 1971
Stuart Craig Film Production Design 2004
Bob Crowley Theatre & Film Design 1997
Robin Day Furniture & Exhibitions 1959
Mike Dempsey Graphic Design 1994
Eileen Diss TV & Theatre Design 1975
William Dudley Theatre Design 1988
Richard Eckersley Book Design 1999
Eileen Ellis Textile Design 1984
Simon Esterson Graphic Design 2001
Colin Forbes Graphic Design 1974
Michael Foreman Illustration 1985
Jenny Frean Textile Design 1998
Malcolm Garrett New Media 2000
David Gentleman Stamps 1970
Margaret Hall Exhibitions 1974
Geoffrey Harcourt Furniture Design 1978
Tim Harvey TV Production Design 1990
Patrick Head Engineering Design 1993
Thomas Heatherwick General Design 2004
Robert Heritage Furniture 1963
David Hillman Graphic Design 1997
Matthew Hilton Furniture Design 2004
Richard Hudson Theatre Design 1999
Martin Hunt Ceramics & Glass 1981
Alan Irvine Exhibitions & Museum 1964
James Irvine Product Design 2004
William Neill Johnstone Textile Design 1989
Perry King Product Design 1990
Rodney Kinsman Furniture Design 1990
Geoffrey Kirk Engineering Design 2001
Ralph Koltai Theatre Design 1984
Stefanos Lazaridis Theatre Design 2003
R 'Sonny' Levi Boat Design 1987
Robin Levien Ceramics & Glass 1995
David Lewis Product Design 1995
Bernard Lodge Film & TV Graphics 1982
Noel London Engineering Product Design 1973
Ross Lovegrove Product Design 2003
George Mackie Book Design 1973
Tim Macfarlane Structural Engineering Design 2004
Pearce Marchbank Graphic Design 2004
John McConnell Graphic Design 1987
Antony McDonald Theatre Design 2004
David McMurtry Engineering Design 1989
Marshall Meek Naval Architecture 1986
Bill Moggridge Product Design 1988
Colin Mudie Small Craft Naval 1995
Timothy O'Brien Theatre Design 1991
Anthony Powell Costume Design 1999
Wendy Ramshaw Jewellery Design 1999
James Randle Engineering Design 1994
Philip Ruffles Engineering Design 1997
Patrick Rylands Product Design 1999
Ron Sandford Illustration 1989
Arnold Schwartzman OBE Graphic Design 2006
Philip Thompson Graphics & Illustration 1997
Alan Tye Product Design 1989
Georgina von Etzdorf Textile Design 1995
Stuart Walker Film & TV Design 1998
Raymond Wheeler Engineering Design 1995
Chris Wise Structural Engineering 1998
Terence Woodgate Furniture Design 2003
[edit] HonRDIs
Name Category Year
Junichi Arai Textile Design 1987
Fabien Baron Graphic Design 2000
Niels Diffrient Furniture Design 1987
Dionysis Fotopoulos Theatre & Film Design 1992
Knud Holscher Product Design 2004
Rei Kawakubo Fashion Design 2001
Friso Kramer Furniture 1979
Yrjö Kukkapuro Furniture Design 2002
Jack Lenor Larsen Textile Design 1983
Italo Lupi Graphic Design 2002
Erik Magnussen Furniture & Product 2001
Pierre Mendell Graphic Design 1999
Bruno Monguzzi Graphic Design 2003
Marcello Morandini Ceramic Design 2004
Ulf Moritz Textile Design 2004
Maurice Sendak Illustration 1986
Olin Stephens Yacht Design 1975
Roger Tallon General Design 1973
Henryk Tomaszewski Graphics 1975
Eva Zeisel Ceramic Design 2004
[edit] Former members
[edit] Past RDIs
Mr Tony Abbott MC, Television & Theatre Design, 1972 Sir Hardy Amies KCVO RDI, Dress Design, 1964 Mr Edward Abbott CBE, Illustration, 1974 Mr Jon Bannenberg, Motor Yachts, 1978 Mr Christian Barnard OBE, Transport Equipment, 1948 Mr Edward Bawden CBE, Graphics, 1949 Sir Misha Black OBE, Exhibitions & Interiors, 1957 Mr John Box OBE, Film Production Design, 1992 Mr Bill Brandt, Photography, 1978 Dr William Brown, Bridge Design, 1977 Mr Reco Capey, General Design, 1937 Sir Hugh Casson CH KCVO, Exhibitions, 1961 Achille Castiglioni, General Design, 1986 Mr Hulme Chadwick, Product Design, 1974 Mr Colin Chapman CBE, Automotive Design, 1979 Mr Wells Coates OBE, General Design, 1944 Sir Christopher Cockerell OBE, Engineering Design, 1987 Mr Douglas Cockerell MBE, Bookbinding, 1936 Miss Susie Cooper OBE, Pottery, 1940 Professor Kay Cosserat RDI, Textile Design, 1986 Mr Edward Gordon Craig CH, Stage Design, 1937 Mr Gordon Cullen CBE, Illustration & Townscape Design, 1975 Mr Tom Eckersley OBE, Posters, 1963 Mr Uffa Fox CBE, Small Boats, 1955 Mr Barnett Freedman CBE, Graphics, 1949 Mr Roger Furse, Stage & Film Design, 1949 Mr Abram Games OBE, Posters, 1959 Mr James Gardener CBE, Exhibitions, 1947 Mr J Laurent Giles, Yachts, 1951 Mr Eric Gill, Typography & Wood Engraving, 1936 Mr Robert Goodden CBE, General Design, 1947 Mr Duncan Grant, Printed Textiles, 1941 Ms Eileen Gray, Furniture & Interiors, 1972 Mr Milner Gray CBE, Packaging, 1937 Mr E W Grieve, Shop Window Display, 1940 Ms Jacqueline Groag, Textile Design, 1964 Professor Sir Edmund Happold, Engineering Design, 1983 Sir Geoffrey de Havilland OM CBE, Aircraft, 1944 Mr Ashley Havinden OBE, Graphics, 1947 Mr Lionel Haworth OBE, Engineering Design, 1976 Sir Ambrose Heal, Furniture, 1939 Mr F H K Henrion OBE, Packaging & Graphics, 1959 Ms Jocelyn Herbert RDI, Theatre & Cinema Design, 1971 Mr George Him, Graphic Design, 1977 Mr James Hogan, Glass & Stained Glass, 1936 Mr Paul Hogarth OBE, Illustration, 1979 Mr Charles Holden, Transport Equipment, 1943 Mr Jack Howe RDI, Products and Industrial Equipment, 1961 Mr Alan Hutt, Typographic & Newspaper Design, 1970 Mr Laurence Irving OBE, date tbc Sir Alec Issigonis CBE, Motor Cars, 1964 Miss Natasha Kroll RDI, Shop Display and Television Design, 1966 Mr Lynton Lamb, Book Design & Illustration, 1974 Sir Osbert Lancaster, Illustration, 1979 Ms Margaret Leischner, Textiles, 1969 Mr Richard Levin OBE, Television Design, 1971 Sir William Lyons, Motor Cars, 1964 Miss Ethel Mairet, Woven Textiles, 1937 Mr Eric de Mare, Photography, 1997 Miss Enid Marx, Pattern Design, 1944 Mr J H Mason, 1936 Sir James McNeill KCVO CBE MC, Ships, 1950 Mr Percy Metcalfe CVO, Medals & Coinage, 1937 Sir Francis Meynell, Typography, 1940 Mr Edward Molyneux, MC, Dress, 1950 Mr Stanley Morison, Type Design & Typography, 1960 Mr Alastair Morton, Textiles, 1960 Miss Jean Muir CBE, Dress Design, 1972 Mr H G Murphy, Goldsmithing & Goldsmithing, 1936 Mr Keith Murray, MC, Glass, Pottery & Silver, 1936 Mr Charles Nicholson OBE, Yachts, 1944 Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman, CBE RDI, Theatre & Film Design, 1977 Mr Brian O'Rorke, RA Interiors, 1939 Mr Eric Carlton Ottaway, Road Passenger Vehicles, 1949 Mr Derek Prime, Engineering Design, 1982 Mr Ian Proctor, Boats & Small Craft, 1969 Mr Tom Purvis, Commercial Art, 1936 Mr Ernest Race, Furniture, 1953 Mr A B Read, Light Fittings, 1940 Mr A A Rubbra, Engineering Design, 1977 Sir Gordon Russell MC CBE, Furniture, 1940 Mr R D Russell, Furniture, 1944 Mr Hans Schleger, Exhibition Display & Packaging, 1959 Mr Hans Schmoller, Typography, 1976 Mr Douglas Scott, Industrial Designer, 1974 Mr George Sheringham, Interior Decoration & Textiles, 1936 Mr Peter Simpson, Woven Textile Design, 1974 Mr Percy Delf Smith, Lettering, 1940 Sir Basil Spence OM OBE, Exhibitions & Interiors, 1960 Mr Herbert Spencer, Typography, 1965 Mr Harold Stabler, Pottery, Enamelling & Silversmithing, 1936 Mr Richard Stevens, Product Design, 1973 Mr Reynolds Stone CBE, Lettering, 1956 Miss Marianne Straub OBE, Woven Textiles, 1972 Mr Fred Taylor, Graphics, 1936 Mr Walter Tracy, Type Design, 1973 Mr Howard Upjohn, Engineering Product Design, 1973 Mr C F A Voysey, Interior Decoration, Furniture & Fabrics, 1936 Sir Barnes Wallis CBE, Aircraft, 1943 Mr Allan Walton, Printed Textiles, 1940 Mr Neville Ward, Interior Design & Ship Interiors, 1971 Mr John Waterer, Leather Goods, 1953 Mr Robert Welch MBE, Product Design & Silversmithing, 1965 Sir Frank Whittle OM KBE CB, Engineering Design, 1985 Mr Berthold Wolpe OBE, Type Faces & Lettering, 1959 Ms Anna Zinkeisen, Graphics & Mural Painting, 1940
[edit] Past Honorary RDIs
Mr Edward McKnight Kauffer, USA, Commercial Art, 1936 Mr Alvar Aalto, Finland, General Design, 1947 Mr Franco Albini, Italy, Interiors, Exhibitions & Furniture, 1971 Mr Gordon Andrews, Australia, General Design, 1987 Mr Saul Bass, USA, Film & TV Graphics, 1964 Mr Herbert Bayer, USA, Graphic Design, 1984 Mr Richard Buckminster Fuller, USA, Architecture & Design, 1980 Nanna Ditzel, Product Design, 1996 Mr Charles Eames, USA, Furniture, Exhibitions & Interiors, 1960 Mr André François, Graphics 1974 Mr Alexander Girard, USA, Interiors, Exhibitions & Furnishing Textiles, 1965 Mr Walter Gropius, USA, General Design, 1947 Mr Edward Hald, Sweden, Glass, 1939 Mr Walter Herdeg, Switzerland, Graphic Design, 1976 Mr Christian Joachim, Sweden, Pottery, 1939 Mr CL 'Kelly' Johnson, USA, Aircraft Design, 1984 Mr Finn Juhl, Denmark, Furniture & Interiors, 1978 Ms Dora Jung, Finland, Woven Textiles, 1979 Mr Kaare Klint, Denmark, Furniture, 1949 Mr Takashi Kono, Japan, Graphics, 1983 Mr Raymond Loewy, USA, General Design, 1939 Mr Bruno Mathsson, Sweden, Furniture, 1978 Mr Herbert Matter, Switzerland, Graphics & Photography, 1982 Mr Norman McLaren, Canada, Film Animation, 1986 Mr Borge Mogensen, Denmark, Furniture, 1972 Mr Josef Muller-Brockmann, Switzerland, Graphic Design, 1988 Mr George Nelson, USA, General Design, 1973 Mr Marcello Nizzoli, Italy, Typewriters & Calculating Machines, 1961 Professor Antti Nurmesniemi, Finland, General Design, 1986 Professor Sigurd Persson, Sweden, General Design, 1987 Mr Battista Farina, Italy, Motor Cars, 1954 Mr Paul Rand, USA, Graphics, 1973 Mr Steen Eiler Rasmussen, Denmark, General Design, 1947 Professor Astrid Sampe, Sweden, Textile Design, 1949 Mr WHJB Sandberg, Holland, Exhibition & Museum Display, Typography, 1971 Mr Carlo Scarpa, Italy, Exhibitions, Interiors & Museum Design, 1969 Mr Saul Steinberg, USA, Illustration, 1980 Mr Josef Svoboda, Czechoslovakia, Theatre Design, 1989 Mr Ilmari Tapiovaara, Finland, Furniture, 1969 Mr Walter Dorwin Teague, USA, General Design, 1951 Mr Roland Topor, France, Illustration, 1988 Mr Jan Tschichold, Switzerland, Typography & Book Design, 1965 Mr Tapio Wirkkala, Finland, Glass, Wood & Silver, 1964 Me Henry Wolf, USA, Graphic Design, 1990 Mr Piet Zwart, Holland, Typography, 1966
