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Garry Emery: Australia's Top Graphic Designer Honoured in the United StatesGarry Emery, design director of emerystudio and one of Australia's most successful graphic designers, has been honoured for his lifetime contribution to the discipline of environmental graphic design, by the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers (SEGD) in the United States.
He is the first Australian and the first non-USA based designer ever to win this prestigious award.
The Fellow Award is the highest honour that the SEGD bestows on a member and recognises Garry Emery's outstanding design history and the consistent excellence of his work in the specialist discipline of wayfinding and signage.
He joins the likes of renowned international architects such as Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, as well as graphic designers Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar and Massimo Vignelli who are all past recipients of the prize.
Talking about the award, Leslie Dilworth, Executive Director SEGD said, "Garry Emery is being honoured for the outstanding quality of his work, and the influence his designs have had worldwide.
His designs are always appropriate, intelligent and elegant."
Projects that have earned Garry Emery the reputation as a pioneer in environmental graphic design include Melbourne Exhibition Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Parliament House in Canberra,
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