In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design came under new management. This website is an archive of the impactful and inspirational work produced by the ID community before that transition.

László Moholy-Nagy opened the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, treating design as a discipline that was teachable, testable, and consequential. Nine decades on, its scope had widened from the things people use to the systems they depend on: hospitals, government agencies, classrooms, supply chains, digital platforms. Along the way, ID community members developed the published research, methods, and frameworks that designers rely on every day.

Chief among them is human-centered design: close attention to how people actually live, and advocacy for what that research reveals. It shaped designers who are comfortable with complexity and ambiguity: curious, rigorous, inclusive, and stubbornly optimistic about design's ability to change the systems that shape our lives.

To every one of them, who taught, studied, built, critiqued, and stayed late in the studio: thank you, and keep designing.

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Past Event

careerID Confab Fall 2021

October 12-13, 2021
IIT Institute of Design
3137 S Federal St
Chicago, IL 60654
Connect to students from IIT Institute of Design (ID) and colleagues working in design across industries.

Register now to meet today's top talent and host discussions about your organization and design's role within it.

Registration is on Handshake for either day (October 12 or October 13):

10/12 - careerID Confab Fall 2021 Handshake page

10/13 - careerID Confab Fall 2021 Handshake page

A virtual format makes the event more efficient and customizable for organizations.

Get to know our students while sharing information about your organization and the role of design within it. You also have the option to post open positions. Get to know our students and stay connected with other leaders.

This format builds on the successful elements of our past events:

  • Expanded roundtable conversations for each participating organization: We’ve multiplied our favorite roundtable discussions, providing each organization an opportunity to hold up to 3 roundtables on the day of their choice. Whether your organization is horoing or not - these roundtables are a great way to get to know ID talent and help our students stay connected to different industries.
  • Student interviews made easy: Traditional and informational interviews happen as best fits your schedule in the two weeks following the Confab. Respond to student applications and invite students to interview based on their resumes or your networking interactions.
  • Less than three hours of your time.

For our Fall 2021 event, all of our registration will happen exclusively on Handshake (links at top). There are a few things to note about registration:

Register by date: Friday,October 8th 2021

If you already have a profile on Handshake, you should be able to log in and access the page right away.(If you have joined our event the past two years, you should have a profile!)

If you do not a Handshake profile, you will be directed to set one up before you can access the event registration page.

Registration is $200 for companies and $100 for nonprofits or government organizations

If you have any questions, please contact Brandon Kinports at bkinports@id.iit.edu.

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