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

Helping Organizations Change: Tony Bynum and Roger Mader in Conversation

February 7, 2025
12:30-1:30pm CST
Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech
3137 South Federal Street
Chicago, IL 60616

Discover how design can help organizations seize opportunities, embrace change, and plan for the future amidst today’s rapid tech advancements.

In our moment of rapid technological advancement, organizations need to be ready to embrace change, seize opportunities, and plan for the future. In this lunch and learn event, two leaders in using design for organizational change discuss how they guide teams to success.

The conversation will take place in-person at the Institute of Design (Steelcase East), 3137 South Federal Street, Chicago, and streaming on our YouTube channel.

Tony Bynum is the Director of the ID Executive Academy and a Professor of Practice at the Institute of Design Graduate School. Trained in business and design, Tony helps organizations frame and clarify opportunities for purposeful growth and meaningful connection. Under his leadership, the Academy’s B2B, work-integrated learning (WIL) approach offers design training and development programs to teams and organizations. Tony has taught at Rutgers, CEDIM’s School of Design, and Lake Forest College.

Roger Mader has guided executive teams to identify and capture new sources of revenue and to align their people to achieve higher purpose for over three decades. His book Purposeful Enterprise: Design Your Organization to Change the World offers a framework to help any organization to discover and deliver on the true potential of their promise and their people. An occasional guest lecturer at ID, Roger has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Dalhousie University, and at the Sobey Business School of St. Mary’s University in his home of Nova Scotia, Canada.

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