Notable Awards and Accomplishments
Dieter Rams has been involved in design for 7 decades, this is a list of notable awards and accomplishments.
- 1960 Receives ‘Kulturkreis im Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie’ Scholarship Award
- 1961 TP1 Portable record player and radio receives ‘Supreme Award’ at Interplas exhibition, London
- 1963 F21 receives ‘Supreme Award’ at Interplas exhibition, London
- 1968 Awarded ‘Honourary Royal Designer for Industry’ of the Royal Society of Arts, UK for ‘distinguished design in furniture and light engineering products’
- 1969 620 Chair awarded ‘Gold Medal’ at the International Furniture Exhibition in Vienna
- 1978 Awarded ‘SIAD Medal of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers’, UK
- 1985 Awarded ‘Académico de Honor Extranjero’ by the Academia Mexicana de Diseño, Mexico
- 1989 First recipient of the ‘Industrie Forum Design Hannover’, Germany, for special contribution to design
- 1989 Awarded ‘Doctor honoris causa’ by Royal College of Arts, London, UK
- 1992 Receives IKEA prize and uses prize money for his own ‘Dieter and Ingeborg Rams Foundation’ for the promotion of design
- 1996 Receives ‘World Design Medal’ from the Industrial Designers Society of America
- 2002 Awarded ‘Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
- 2003 Receives ‘Design Award ONDI’, Havana, Cuba for his special contribution to industrial design and world culture
- 2007 Awarded Design Prize of the Federal republic of Germany for his life’s work
- 2007 Receives Lucky Strike Designer Award from the Raymond Loewy Foundation
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