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Awards

[2022] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, Recipient

[2020] Rank of Director, Vignelli Center for Design Studies at RIT, Recipient

[2020] Designation of Vignelli Distinguished Professor at RIT, Recipient

[2019] Designation of Distinguished Professor at RIT, Recipient

[2018] European Product Design Award, Honorable Mention

[2018] Asia Design Prize, Recipient

[2017] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, Recipient

[2017] Gitner Prize, Recipient

[2016] ICFF Editors’ Award, Recipient

[2015] Top Scholarship Contributor Award at RIT, Recipient

[2014] Rank of Full Professor at RIT, Recipient

[2012] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, Recipient

[2012] Tenure at RIT, Recipient

[2011] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, Recipient

[2011] Faculty Evaluation and Development Grant at RIT, Recipient

[2009] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, Recipient

[2009] Best of Philadelphia Award, Recipient

[2008] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, Recipient

[2008] Best of Philadelphia Award, Recipient

[2008] Craig R. Benson Chair for Innovation, Recipient

[2008] Red Dot Design Award, Honorable Mention

[2007] International Design Awards, First Place Winner

[2007] ICFF Design School Entry, Recipient

[2006] Mathmos ‘Candle Light’ Competition, Finalist

[2006] I.D. Annual Design Review, Honorable Mention

[2006] Designboom House Party Competition, Finalist

[2006] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, Recipient

[2005] MACEF Design Award: Rethink + Recycle, Finalist

[2005] Brooklyn Museum Young Designer Award, Nominee

[2005] Athena Emerging Designer Award, Nominee

[2005] ICFF Editors Award, Recipient

[2005] I.D. Annual Design Review, Honorable Mention

[2005] Chicago Athenaeum Good Design, Recipient

[2005] Surface Designing The Future, Runner-up

[2004] Spertus Museum Award, Second Place

[2003] Graphis Product 3, Recipient

[2003] Philadelphia Magazine Award: 22 People, Recipient

[2003] Surface Ten Avant-Garde Designers, Recipient

[2003] Smithsonian Smart Paper Kite Competition, Finalist

[2000] Spertus Museum Award, Finalist

[1998] Chrysler Award for Innovation In Design, Nominee

[1997] Samuel Gragg Award for Achievement, Recipient

[1993] Michael Rapuano Design Award, Recipient

[1993] Cornell University CCA Grant, Recipient

[1992] David Bean Traveling Artist Scholarship, Recipient