Product Design Awards and Recognition

2005

Esquire Magazine includes Babble, an innovative sound managment tool from Sonare Technologies/A Herman Miller Company, on its annual listing of "America's Best & Brightest"

The Consumer Electronics Association presents its Best of Innovations Award to Babble, an innovative sound management tool from Sonare Technologies/A Herman Miller Company

Herman Miller's Celle task chair receives the People's Choice Award at the National Ergonomics Conference and Exposition (NECE). Attendees annually vote for the new product they believe offers the best opportunity for increasing workplace productivity and profitability, while improving workplace health and safety.

2004

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture presents its GOOD DESIGN Award for 2003 to Herman Miller's Mirra office chair and the M Collection, a line of height-adjustable work tables co-developed with Baker Manufacturing

FIRA International Ltd., a leading European furniture industry research organization, awards Herman Miller's Mirra chair the FIRA Ergonomics Excellence Award

2003

Fortune Magazine names the Mirra chair one of the 25 best products of the year. Fortune praised Herman Miller's Aeron chair as a design breakthrough that helped pave the way for Mirra's bold look--and noted that "it's no surprise that companies like Apple and Herman Miller are good at design."

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Seating, Desk/Workstation Chairs" for the Mirra chair, as judged by an independent jury of facilities managers, interior designers, and architects

The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recognizes Herman Miller for its record of product design in the 4th Annual National Design Awards, citing the company as "a design leader...focused on accessible, problem-solving furniture design with high style, insisting on design excellence, innovation and integrity in all of its products"

2002

The Industrial Design Society of America's (IDSA) annual Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) and Business Week magazine awarded Silver to Herman Miller's Capelli stool

I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, Honorable Mention in Furniture for the Caper task chair

Fast Company magazine hails Herman Miller's Aeron chair and Eames Lounge among the 15 best-designed consumer products of the past 100 years, based on their "thoughtful, integrated style and technology," affordability, accessibility and their impact on individuals' lifestyles

Herman Miller's patented PostureFit technology for seated low back support receives the 1st Annual Attendees Choice Award at the National Ergonomics Conference and Exposition

2001

FIRA (the Furniture Industry Research Association) awards Herman Miller's Aeron chair the Certificate for Ergonomic Excellence, the highest ergonomic award in Europe

Best of NeoCon Gold Award, "Most Innovative" for Design on Textile program

2000

Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), co-sponsored by Business Week magazine, name Levity Collection and Reaction chair Silver Award Winners

Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), co-sponsored by Business Week magazine, name Herman Miller's Resolve Office System a Gold award winner

Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), co-sponsored by Business Week magazine--Caper seating earns Bronze award

2000 NeoCon, Grand Award for NeoCon 2000 showroom at Chicago's Merchandise Mart in the annual Showroom Design

1999

"Design of the Century" by Time magazine for Eames molded plywood chair

Aeron Chair named one of "Designs Greatest Hits" in Your Company magazine

"Designs of the Decade" Gold Winner in "Office Furniture" from the Industrial Designers Society of America & Business Week magazine for Aeron chair

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Furniture Systems" for the Resolve system

Interiors Magazine and IIDA Creative Excellence Award for showroom design

IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, Bronze Award in "Furniture Systems" for Kiva

IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, Bronze Award in "Seating, Desk/Workstation Chairs" for Caper Seating

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Seating Desk/Task Chairs" for the Caper chair

1998

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Furniture Systems" for the Passage freestanding desk system

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Computer Support Furniture" for the Acrobat suite of freestanding furniture

Best of NeoCon, "Most Innovative Award" for the Acrobat suite of freestanding furniture

Best of NeoCon, Silver Award for the Meridian Storage Tower

International Plastics Consumer Product Design Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers for Aeron chair

Apex Award, IIDA, in "Specialties" for Puzzle mobile workstation

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Seating, Desk/Workstation Chairs" for the Reaction chair

NeoCon showroom competition, IIDA, Grand Showroom Award

Editor's Gold Award, Home Office Computing magazine, for the Aeron Chair and the TJ Collection of home office furniture

1997

Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award from the Product Development & Management Association for Herman Miller's new product development processes

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Furniture Systems, New Components and Enhancements" and Silver Editor's Choice Award for Systems Bridge wall

1996

Gold Prize for Good Design (G-Mark), Foreign Products-Furniture and Interiors, from the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) for the Aeron chair

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Furniture Systems, New Components and Enhancements" for Arrio freestanding systems furniture

Best of NeoCon, Silver Award in "Seating" for the Limerick chair

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "New Systems" for the Q System

American Product Excellence (APEX) Award for the Ambi® chair

Business Week (January 8) cited the Aeron chair among "Best Products" of 1995

1995

Best of NeoCon, Gold Award in "Seating, Desk/Workstation Chairs" for the Ambi chair

I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, "Best of Category in Furniture" for the Aeron chair

Silver Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for the Aeron chair in the Contract Furniture category presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America

Silver Industrial Design Excellence Awards for Compass Filing and Storage, Thomas Newhouse Design

Silver Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) for the Avian chair in the Contract Furniture category presented by the Industrial Designers Society of America

1992

Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA) for Relay Furniture by Business Week magazine and presented by Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)

1991

Time magazine "Best of the Decade" (1980-90) design citation for the Equa chair

Design magazine (United Kingdom) "Best of the Decade" (1980-90) recognition for Ethospace interiors, Equa chair, and Hollington chair

Institute of Business Designers Contract magazine 1987 Gold Award in desks and credenzas to Newhouse Group furniture

Worldesign Congress 1985 to the Action Office system as the world's most significant industrial design for the years 1961-1985

Worldesign Congress 1985 to Charles Eames as the world's most influential designer of the century