Designer Tom Dixon has been awarded a CBE, while architect Peter Clegg and graphic designer Neville Brody have been awarded OBEs in King Charles III’s New Year Honours list.
Also recognised by King Charles were architect Timothy John Beech Williamson and landscape architect Richard Wilson, who both received OBEs.
Industrial designer Dixon has become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) – the highest Order of the British Empire honour – in the King’s biannual honours programme.
Dixon, who was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001, is known for his furniture, lighting and accessories created under his eponymous homeware brand.
He founding his brand in 2002, having previously worked as worked as creative director of furniture companies Habitat and Artek. In 2022 the brand celebrated its 20th anniversary with an exhibition of its designs at Milan design week.
In a Dezeen podcast he described the Tom Dixon brand ethos as “expressive minimalism”.
Also honoured was Clegg, co-founder of UK architecture practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, who received an OBE.
Clegg founded the studio, which is known for its sustainable-led designs, in 1978. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize in 2008, alongside Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington, for the Accordia housing development in Cambridge.
Recent projects by the studio include the transformation of a historic mill in Shropshire, the Brighton Dome cultural complex and the Aga Khan Academy Dhaka boarding school in Bangladesh.
Brody, who was a Dezeen Awards 2024 judge, was also awarded an OBE. Brody is a leading graphic and typography designer who first rose to prominence in the 1980s as art director for cult magazine The Face.
He later moved into commercial work and has designed Coca-Cola’s first ever own-brand typeface, bespoke typefaces for a Channel 4 rebrand and the typeface for an England football kit.
Also recognised on the honours list was Williamson, who was made a Member of the Orders of the British Empire (MBE).
Williamson is best known for his role as member of the School Design and Building Unit at the Department for Education.
The King’s New Year Honours are awarded each year in December. Together with the Birthday Honours given out on the King’s official birthday in June, they make up part of the British honours system.
