The Fellow award program is a means of recognizing designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as in their local AIGA chapter. The areas of education, writing, leadership and reputation, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring significant contribution.

The following Fellows have been recognized in recent years.
2019 |
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Atlanta |
Cynthia Jones Parks |
Colorado |
Lisa Abendroth |
Cleveland |
Jennifer Visocky O'Grady |
Houston |
Lana Rigsby |
San Francisco |
Bob Aufuldish |
Seattle |
Wendy Quesinberry |
2018 |
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Austin |
Herman Ellis Dyal |
Boston |
Chaz Maviyane-Davies |
Chicago |
Katherine Darnstadt |
Orlando |
Jeff Matz |
Salt Lake City |
Randall Smith |
San Diego |
Amy Jo Levine |
San Francisco |
Richard Danne |
Triad NC |
Hayes Henderson |
Washington DC |
Dan Banks |
2017 |
|
Atlanta |
David Laufer |
Chicago |
Carlos Segura |
Colorado |
Amy Siegel |
Los Angeles |
Errol Gerson |
Philadelphia |
Allan Espiritu |
San Francisco |
Chuck Byrne |
Triad NC |
Kyle T. Webster |
West Michigan |
Barbara Loveland |
2016 |
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Atlanta |
Zia Khan |
Boston |
Fritz Klaetke |
Chicago |
Maria Grillo |
Kansas City |
Paul O. Diamond |
Minnesota |
Andrew Blauvelt |
San Francisco |
Michael Carabetta |
Seattle |
Jeff Barlow |
St. Louis |
Paul Bussmann |
Vermont |
Lyn Severance |
2015 |
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Atlanta |
Kathi Roberts |
Austin |
Rex Peteet |
Chicago |
Dana Arnett |
Colorado |
Ellen Bruss |
Kansas City |
Darren Abbott |
Oklahoma |
Ruki Ravikumar |
San Francisco |
Jim Ales |
St. Louis |
Sarah Birdsall |
2014 |
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Kansas City |
Patrick Dooley |
Knoxville |
David Gilbert |
Minnesota |
Jo Davison |
Nebraska |
Drew Davies |
Philadelphia |
Mark Willie |
Pittsburgh |
Dan Boyarski |
San Francisco |
Gaby Brink |
Seattle |
Douglas Wadden |
Vermont |
Michael Jager |
West Michigan |
Steve Frykholm |
Wichita |
Bill Gardner |
Wisconsin |
Amy Decker |
2013 |
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Atlanta |
Douglass Grimmett |
Austin |
Lowell Williams |
Chicago |
Cheryl Towler Weese |
Colorado |
John Kjos |
Connecticut |
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Dallas Fort Worth |
Willie Baronet |
Detroit |
Michael Treppa |
Knoxville |
Michael Richards |
Raleigh |
Aly Khalifa |
San Francisco |
Michael Manwaring Clement Mok |
2012 |
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Boston |
Denise Korn |
Chicago |
Harri Bowler |
Connecticut |
Pamela Williams |
Dallas Forth Worth |
Tim Hale |
Knoxville |
Deb Shmerler |
Los Angeles |
Agustin Gonzalez Garza |
Minnesota |
John DuFresne |
Nebraska |
Ron Sack |
Oklahoma |
Eric Anderson |
Philadelphia |
Rosemary Murphy |
Reno Tahoe |
Jeff Pickett |
Santa Barbara |
Mark Oliver |
San Francisco |
Patrick Coyne |
Seattle |
Jack Anderson |
2011 |
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Birmingham |
Richard Dendy |
Chattanooga |
Paul Rustand |
Chicago |
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Colorado |
Marian Halliday |
Cincinnati |
Dan Bittman |
Dallas Fort Worth |
Doug May |
DC |
Leo Mullen |
Knoxville |
Robin Easter |
Salt Lake City |
Christopher Liechty |
San Francisco |
Michael Mabry |
St. Louis |
Deanna Kuhlmann-Leavitt |
2010 |
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Austin |
DJ Stout |
Boston |
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Chicago |
Arnold Goodwin |
Connecticut |
Michael Scricco |
DC |
Tamera Lawrence |
Detroit |
David Buffington |
Los Angeles |
Jon Coy |
Minnesota |
Sue Crolick Joe Duffy |
New Orleans |
Christy Hackenberg |
Philadelphia |
Lanny Sommese |
Pittsburgh |
Rick Landesberg |
Seattle |
Janet DeDonato |
2009 |
|
Atlanta |
Richard Anwyl |
Chicago |
Morton Goldsholl |
Cincinnati |
P. Michael Zender |
Connecticut |
Peter Good |
DC |
David J. Franek |
Kansas City |
John Muller |
Los Angeles |
Margo Chase |
Memphis |
Larry Shaw |
Metro North |
Stanley Church |
Oklahoma |
Sarah Mason Sears |
Philadelphia |
Laurie Churchman |
Raleigh |
David Burney |
San Diego |
Tyler Blik |
San Francisco |
Doug Akagi |
Seattle |
Tan Le |
St. Louis |
Cherie Fister |
2008 |
|
Baltimore |
Ed Gold |
Cross-cultural Design |
Christopher Liechty |
Chattanooga |
R. Michael Hendrix |
Chicago |
Art Paul |
Cincinnati |
Kenneth Botts |
DC |
Antonio Alcalá |
Detroit |
Doug Kisor |
Houston |
Paula Savage Hansen |
Oklahoma |
Jim Watson |
Orange County |
Joseph Bañuelos |
Philadelphia |
Frank Baseman |
Pittsburgh |
Reed Agnew |
San Diego |
MaeLin Levine |
San Francisco |
Tom Ingalls |
Seattle |
Terry Marks |
St. Louis |
Scott Gericke |
2007 |
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Cross-cultural Design |
Aaron Marcus |
Arizona |
Meryl Epstein |
Atlanta |
Brad Copeland |
Austin |
Mike Hicks |
Boston |
Elizabeth Resnick |
Chicago |
Joseph Michael Essex |
Cincinnati |
Noel Martin |
Cleveland |
Sheila Hart |
Colorado |
Connie Asher |
Kansas City |
Stephanie Nuria Sabato |
Los Angeles |
Archie Boston |
Minnesota |
Tim Larsen |
San Francisco |
Mary Scott |
Seattle |
Shelly Langton |
2006 |
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Chicago |
Pat and Greg Samata |
DC |
Sam Shelton |
Houston |
Cheryl Beckett |
Jacksonville |
Mary Fisher |
Kansas City |
Moira Cullen |
Los Angeles |
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Maine |
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Miami |
Annette M. Piskel |
New Orleans |
Tom Varisco |
San Francisco |
Michael Osborne |
2005 |
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Atlanta |
Bill Grant |
Boston |
Clifford Stoltze |
Chicago |
Robert E. Vogele |
DC |
Judy Kirpich |
Detroit |
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Kansas City |
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Las Vegas |
Patty Mar |
Los Angeles |
InJu Sturgeon |
Orlando |
Thomas Scott |
Portland |
Ron Dumas |
2004 |
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Chicago |
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Colorado |
Robert W. Taylor |
Dallas |
Jack Summerford |
DC |
Charles Michael Helmken |
Los Angeles |
Kim Baer |
Miami |
Maggy Cuesta |
San Francisco |
Mark Fox |
2003 |
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Atlanta |
Maxey Andress |
Chicago |
Philip Burton |
Boston |
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Cleveland |
J. Charles Walker |
DC |
Terrence McCaffrey |
Jacksonville |
David Porter |
Los Angeles |
Buddy Berke |
San Diego |
Bennett Peji |
2002 |
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Chicago |
Susan Jackson Keig |
DC |
Stephen Kraft |
Jacksonville |
Mary Ann Rosenthal |
Los Angeles |
Deborah Sussman |
Miami |
Joel Fuller |
Raleigh |
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San Francisco |
Primo Angeli Jean Coyne |
St. Louis |
Doug Wolfe |
Seattle |
Christopher Ozubko |
2001 |
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Atlanta |
Hank Richardson |
Boston |
Michael McPherson |
Chicago |
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Cleveland |
Karen Skunta |
DC |
Pat Taylor |
Jacksonville |
Jill Applegate |
Philadelphia |
Kenneth Hiebert |
San Francisco |
Pat Bruning |
2000 |
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Chicago |
Bart Crosby |
DC |
Tom Suzuki |
Miami |
Jacques Auger |
Minnesota |
Peter Seitz |
Philadelphia |
Hans-U Allemann |
Seattle |
Jesse Doquilo |
1999 |
|
Atlanta |
Robert E. Wages |
Boston |
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Chicago |
Hayward R. Blake |
Cleveland |
Bert Benkendorf |
Los Angeles |
Keith Bright |
Philadelphia |
Alina R. Wheeler |
San Francisco |
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Seattle |
Pat Hansen |
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