National Design Award Winners

The Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards honor innovation and impact and recognize the power of design to change the world. Explore products and publications from past and present award recipients.

Meet the 2025 Winners:

Design Visionary:	Kim Hastreiter
Climate Action:	ilumiNACIÓN
Emerging Designer:	Nu Goteh
Architecture:	Michael Maltzan Architecture
Communication Design:	Matt Willey
Digital Design:	Emerging Objects
Fashion Design:	Melitta Baumeister
Interior Design:	Little Wing Lee
Landscape Architecture:	TERREMOTO
Product Design:	Jules Sherman

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White book cover with messily handwritten title text in black ink

STUFF: A New York Life of Cultural Chaos

Purple book cover, stylized in color halftone, featuring an illustration of a suited man with a pipe in his mouth, head turned backward, with binoculars. Large white title text at top.

Poster Man: 50 Years of Iconic Graphic Design

A small cylindrical glass tube with silver end caps featuring a small black digital clock set inside the tube.

Time Since Launch

2020 National Design Awards Tote

2020 National Design Awards Tote

Cover of Black Landscapes Matter featuring a mostly black cover with a small section at the bottom of the cover that features a landscape drawing of an urban environment. 6 people are placed into the drawing, which includes a bike path, some trees, and street signage.

Black Landscapes Matter

A design kit packaged in a white rectangular box that features two bright red tabs at the front of the box for opening and closing. A white sticker is placed at the center of the box cover and features the name of the organization as well as the kit name in bold black text.

Hack*ability Kit

White face mask tie dyed pale blue, with long side ties, printed with indigo floret silhouettes.

Hand-Batik Cotton Face Mask

A bright red cover featuring 5 yellow lines that are drawn diagonally across the cover. The title of the book along with the publisher are printed in bold white text across the cover of the book.

Snøhetta: Collective Intuition

Michael Graves Pepper Mill

Michael Graves Pepper Mill

Side view of mirror-polished salt castor with equally spaced perforations and light blue cone shaped top.

Michael Graves Salt Castor

Above view of mirror-polished triangle-shaped sugar bowl, lid lifted to reveal the bowl of its spoon dipped in sugar.

Michael Graves Sugar Bowl and Spoon

Side view of mirror polished creamer with beak-like spout, open top, and small light blue u-shaped handle.

Michael Graves Creamer

New York Is About New York Poster

Rectangle poster features a purple dragon head at the center, from which yellow and orange stripes are expanding. Title of the event, dates, and address in black font placed on the borders throughout the perimeter of the poster.

"Book of the Dead" Poster

Rectangle poster features a minimalistic image of short black hair in the style of Elvis Presley over the salad-green background. The title "HIM" is placed slightly lower the center using a bold pink font.

White book cover with tall 'M A G' in red on top and 'M E N' in black on bottom with subtitle and author information between above and below

Mag Men: Fifty Years of Making Magazines

Light gray book cover with iridescent foil stamped title in upper right with simple sketches of figures standing around a chart filled with letters and numbers

An Unfinished Encyclopedia of Scale Figures without Architecture

Book cover with a gradient color of purple to green left to right. Title centered in white sans serif font with main title in a heavier font weight than the subtitle

Culture Is Not Always Popular: Fifteen Years of Design Observer

Square book cover with image of a landscape design featuring a glossy red curving architectural element. Title in retro yellow font overlaid in the center

Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces

Book cover with photograph of a distinctive white building peaking into frame in the lower right against a blue sky. Title in yello miami art deco font in the center

Four Florida Moderns: The Architecture of Alberto Alfonso, René González, Chad Oppenheim, and Guy Peterson

Bright orange horizontal book cover with the words "Los Logos" diagonally placed in an intertwined font colored in orange blue and white

Blue book cover with cutout circle in the center and title in light blue all caps sans serif letters in upper left

Less Is More (Difficult)

Red book cover with central illustration showing black arrows circling a golden globe

The Moderns: Midcentury American Graphic Design

Spread of five media pieces, a pink spiral bound book titled "government in plain sight" a white and red illustrated book called "what the cell?" a DVD with the same title, a yellow book with an illustration titled "Field Guide to Federalism" and a white book with red white and blue illustrations titled "The Deciders"

CUP Classics Box Set for Educators

A series of colorful foldout posters on Public Policy.

Making Policy Public Posters Box Set

Book cover with diagonally divided fields of mint and a light wood pattern. Title in black and white letters overlaid in center

Snøhetta: People, Process, Projects

Book cover with photograph of a landscape with deep green grass angular hills and steel bridges. Title overlaid in white sans serif letters

Unearthed: The Landscapes of Hargreaves Associates

Book cover in navy blue with title in various ornamental types in yellow/orange with white outlines.

New Ornamental Type: Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age

Square silk scarf features blue and black vibrant patterns of sound over a white background.

SHOP Exclusive Cymatic Scarf