1991 Budd Steinhilber, FIDSA (b. 1924)
At its annual conference in Boston, Massachusetts, IDSA honored Mr. Steinhilber for his contributions to the profession as catalyst behind the profession's awakening to its environmental responsibilities and founder of its Committee on Environmental Concerns. To help in this endeavor he received a $20,000 grant from the N.E.A. under their "Distinguished Designer Fellowship" program. He was one of two U.S. delegates invited to participate in an ECC seminar on the "Eco-Design of Products" (Delft, Holland 1991) and appeared on the "NBC Nightly News" with Tom Brokaw to discuss design for disassembly as a strategy toward the reduction of waste.

Mr. Steinhilber was born in New York City and graduated, with Honors, from Pratt Institute in 1943 in the same class with Read Viemeister, FIDSA. Both were hired as the first two employees of the firm of Dohner & Lippincott. After Dohner's death in 1944, Budd and Read continued with the firm, which changed its name to J. Gordon Lippincott & Co., and later to Lippincott & Margulies. In 1947, Budd and Read were both members of the Lippincott design team that contributed much of the final styling of the Tucker'48, the ill-fated car developed by Preston Tucker.

In 1947, Budd and Read began a 17-year design partnership, Vie Design Studios, in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1948 they consulted on designs for the Crew & Officer's quarters for the USS Nautilus nuclear submarine. They both taught at the Department of Industrial Design at the Dayton Art Institute, which they helped establish in 1949.

In 1964, Budd headed west to form a new partnership with Gene Tepper, IDSA (Tepper & Steinhilber Assoc.) in San Francisco, California. They were among the initial design pioneers serving the newborn field of electronics in Silicon Valley. In 1975 he partnered with graphic designer Barry Deutsch to form Steinhilber & Deutsch, Inc.

Budd moved to Kaila-Kona, Hawaii in 1987. He served as IDSA's Secretary-Treasurer from 1989 to 1990. Budd was mentor to the Konawaena High School's award-winning solarmobile team in the 1990 World Solar Challenge. In 1993 he received an "Alumni Achievement Award" from his alma mater, Pratt Institute.

Budd was an NGO delegate to the 1997 "U.N. Conference on Global Climate Change" in Kyoto, as well as a delegate to the 2002 "U.N. Summit on Sustainable Development" in Johannesburg, where he demonstrated several prototype zero-emission electric motor scooters and electric motorcycles that he had developed.

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