Discover Top Talent at ID | Institute of Design

In 2026, after nearly 90 years, the Institute of Design was folded into Illinois Tech's School of Design & Society.
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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As experts in design strategy, ID alumni serve as change agents in a range of industries, from consulting to healthcare to technology.

Our constantly evolving curriculum ensures that our graduates are prepared to solve today’s most difficult problems with the latest toolsets. This is just one reason why our placement rate is over 90 percent within three months of graduation.

The time students spend at ID gives them practical experience in pushing the boundaries of applied design in the corporate, civic, and social sectors, so they can hit the ground running at your organization.

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We recruit ID grads because of their human-centered perspective, their systems thinking abilities, and their ability to visualize concepts that can be scaled over time.

—Pam Nyberg, Senior Director, Ascension Healthcare

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recruitID

recruitID is an ongoing, on-demand offering event that matches organizations with ID students for meaningful discussions and 1:1 interviews.

With recruitID, your organization will have a chance to visit ID for in-person sessions, including an overview presentation, small group informational interviews, and one-on-one interviews for internship and full-time opportunities.

Recent participating companies and organizations include Amazon, Allstate, Booz Allen Hamilton, City of Chicago, Deloitte, Google, Grainger, Greater Good Studio, IDEO, Meta and McKinsey.

Contact Peter Zapf at zapf@id.iit.edu to participate in recruitID.

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