Good Design Award (Museum of Modern Art)

The Good Design exhibition series was an industrial design program organized by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, in cooperation with the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, held between 1950 and 1955.

No awards were granted to designers whose work was put on view in these exhibitions, despite misinformation suggesting otherwise.

[2] An agreement to launch the Good Design exhibition series was struck between Rene d'Harnoncourt, director of MoMA, and Wallace O. Ollman, general manager of the Merchandise Mart.

Critic Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times called this tag a "version of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval", and compared it to efforts of similar institutions like V&A in the UK or Bauhaus in Germany in promoting modernist design.

[2] Since 1996, the Good Design award selection has been organized by the Chicago Athenaeum.