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2007 Recipient: Lucia DeRespinis

Lucia has been an Industrial Designer for over fifty years and is an Adjunct Professor at Pratt where she studied with Rowena. She is renowned for picking the pink and orange color scheme for Dunkin’ Donut’s — based on her five-year-old daughter’s favorite colors.

She was in the Bard Graduate Center’s exhibition and major publication: Women In Design/1900 – 2000. She worked for Sandgen and Murtha, Delco Tableware International, Minners & Co. and with George Nelson Associates, where she worked on the amazing 1959 American Exhibit in Moscow designing the exhibition with a team of 8 from the Nelson office plus Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller, and Bill Katavolos. And the clocks she designed while at the Nelson Office are still available at the MoMA store!