B. Martin Pedersen, publisher and creative director of Graphis, has won numerous awards in the past from the AIGA, ADC, TDC, and the SPD, who honored him with the first Herb Lubalin Award for excellence in editorial design. He also won the Columbia University National Magazine Award for the best-designed magazine of the year for Nautical Quarterly. He has been inducted into the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and received the AIGA Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in Design. He is a Alliance Graphique International (AGI) member and the New York Yacht Club.