1999-1980
1999 1999 Bronze Award, Designs of the Decade
Industrial Designers Society of America
Glass Innovation Center, The Corning Museum of Glass

Award of Excellence, Design Annual 40
Communication Arts magazine, 1999
Environmental Graphics
"Discovering Madison," Montpelier

Award of Excellence, Design Annual 40
Communication Arts magazine, 1999
Company Literature/Catalog: Exhibition
Catalog for "Hands + Minds: The Art and Writing of Young People in 20th Century America"
Corcoran Gallery and national tour

1999 Silver Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
Vietnam Era Educational Center

Design Distinction Award
1999 I.D. Annual Design Review
Environment
Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History

Merit Award, 1999, Society for Environmental Graphic Design
Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History

1999 Award for Contributions to the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers
Ralph Appelbaum

Applied Arts Awards Annual
Environmental/Signage, 1999, vol. 14, no. 1
"America's Concentration Camps," Japanese American National Museum
presented at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum

Applied Arts Awards Annual
Environmental/Signage, 1999, vol. 14, no. 1
Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History

The Critics' Choice Awards
Exhibition, Travel + Leisure, January 1999
Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History

Digital Design & Illustration Annual 7
Print magazine, 1999
Catalogue for "Hands & Minds: The Art and Writing of Young People in 20th Century America"
honoring the 75th Annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
Corcoran Gallery and national tour

1998 Rowena Reed Kostellow Award, for design excellence, 1998
Ralph Appelbaum

1998 Award of Distinction, Creativity 28
Signage/Environmental Graphics
"The World We Create," Louisville Science Center

Book Design 2, 1998, Graphis
Catalogue
"What Price Freedom" at The New York Public Library

"Monument" Award, 1998
Society for Environmental Graphic Design
Ralph Appelbaum

Honorable Mention Award
1998 I.D. Annual Design Review
Environment
The Newseum

Honor Award, 1998, Design Awards Competition
Society for Environmental Graphic Design
Leisure Environments
The Newseum

Merit Award, 1998, Design Awards Competition
Society for Environmental Graphic Design
Leisure Environments
Fourth-Floor Fossil Halls, American Museum of Natural History

1998 Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
The Newseum

Special Structural Cultural Award, Public Works Projects of the Year
American Public Works Association (APWA)
Museum of African American History

Member, Governor's Commission
Honoring the Achievements of Women / New York State 1997-1998
Ralph Appelbaum

1998 Award of Excellence, Communication Arts
Environmental Graphics
Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History

1997 Presidential Award for Design Excellence, 1997
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

1997 Silver Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
Martin Luther King, Jr., Visitors Center, National Park Service

1997 Bronze Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
"Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers," Holocaust Museum Houston

Merit Award, The Art Directors Club 76th Annual Awards, 1997
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Orientation Center and Hall of Vertebrate Origins,
American Museum of Natural History

Merit Award, The Art Directors Club 76th Annual Awards, 1997
"Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers," Holocaust Museum Houston

1996 Finalist, Decima Bienal Panamericana de Arquitectura, Quito, Ecuador
biennial exhibition and competition of selected architectural works
from countries throughout the Americas, via Beyer Blinder Belle
1996: Holocaust Museum Houston

Award of Excellence, Design Annual 37
Communication Arts magazine, 1996
Environmental Graphics
Holocaust Museum Houston

I.D. Design Distinction Award in Environments
1996 I.D. Annual Design Review
Dinosaur Halls, American Museum of Natural History

1996 Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
Dinosaur Halls, American Museum of Natural History

1996 Bronze Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
"What Price Freedom," New York Public Library

Citation, International Association of Lighting Designers Lighting Awards, 1996
Fourth-Floor Fossil Halls, American Museum of Natural History

1996 Lumen Citation, Illuminating Engineering Society - New York Section
Fourth-Floor Fossil Halls, American Museum of Natural History

1995 Best of What's New Award: The Year's 100 Greatest Achievements in Science and Technology
Eighth Annual Awards, Popular Science magazine, 1995
Dinosaur Halls, American Museum of Natural History

Award of Excellence, Design Annual 36
Communication Arts magazine, 1995
Environmental Graphics
Dinosaur Halls, American Museum of Natural History

Award of Excellence, Design Annual 36
Communication Arts magazine, 1995
Environmental Graphics
"Liberation 1945," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary) degree
Massachusetts College of Art, May 1995
Ralph Appelbaum

1995 Silver Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives,
American Museum of Natural History

Federal Design Achievement Award
National Endowment for the Arts, 1995
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Best of What's New Award: The Year's 100 Greatest Achievements in Science and Technology
Seventh Annual Awards, Popular Science magazine
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives,
American Museum of Natural History

1994 American Graphic Design Award, Graphic Design: USA, 1994
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

American Graphic Design Award, Graphic Design: USA, 1994
"Culture and Continuity: The Jewish Journey," The Jewish Museum

American Graphic Design Award, Graphic Design: USA, 1994
Computer rendering, "Dream Walk," "The World We Create," Louisville Science Center

Top honors, Sixth Annual AAM Exhibition Awards
American Association of Museums, 1994
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Award of Excellence, Design Annual 35
Communication Arts magazine, 1994
Environmental Graphics
Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of Mammals and Their Extinct Relatives,
American Museum of Natural History

Honor Award, 1994, Design Awards Competition
Society for Environmental Graphic Design
Leisure Environments
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

1994 Gold Industrial Design Excellence Award
Industrial Designers Society of America
Museum Exhibits and Set Design
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Certificate of Merit
73rd National/8th International Art Directors Club Competition, 1994
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Best of Category, 1994 I.D. Annual Design Review
Environments
permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Award of Excellence, Design Annual 34
Communication Arts magazine, 1993
Environmental Graphics
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

1993 interiors Awards, Best in Institutional Design, Interiors magazine, 1993
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Casebooks 10
Print magazine, 1993
Permanent exhibition, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

1992 1992 "Pratt Plus" Award, Pratt Institute
Ralph Appelbaum

1985 Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Casebooks
Print magazine, 1985
"Native Peoples of the Southwest," The Heard Museum

1985 I.D. Annual Design Review
"Native Peoples of the Southwest," The Heard Museum

Award of Excellence, Design Annual
Communication Arts magazine, 1985
Environmental Graphics
"Native Peoples of the Southwest," The Heard Museum

1981 Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Casebooks
Print magazine, 1980/81
"Fossils of New Mexico," traveling exhibit for the State of New Mexico

Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Casebooks
Print magazine, 1980/81
"Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau," Museum of Northern Arizona

Lumen award, Illuminating Engineering Society, 1980/81
"Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau," Museum of Northern Arizona

1980 Certificate of Design Excellence, Print Casebooks
Print magazine, 1979/80
"Great Treasures of the City," American Museum of Natural History

1980 Honor award, interiors and electronic exhibits
CSA/American Institute of Architects, 1978
United States Coast Guard Academy Visitors Pavilion