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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Jeff Hsu

Chief Innovation Officer at Far Eastern Group, Taiwan

Jeff Hsu standing in front of a red sculpture

Jeff Hsu is the Far Eastern Group’s Chief Innovation Officer, reporting directly to the Chairman and Board of Directors. He leads innovation initiatives across the group companies that are responsible for either modernizing operations or defining new business models. He has also served on the Board of Directors for U-Ming Marine Transport for 10 years and assumed the role of Executive Vice President in Operations in October 2017, and the role of Vice Chairman in August 2023. In June 2015, he joined the board of Far EasTone Telecommunications and in 2020, he was appointed to the board of Yuan Ze University.

Prior to joining the group, Jeff worked as a strategy and design consultant in the United States with clients ranging from hi-tech startups to Nestle, Denso Automotive, Kia Motors, and Target. He also served with distinction for five years in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Captain in the Infantry and did multiple combat deployments.

Jeff holds both an MBA and bachelor’s in history and political science from the University of Notre Dame. He has a Master of Design from the Institute of Design a LEAD certificate in corporate innovation from Stanford University.

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Jeff Hsu, Chief Innovation Officer, Far Eastern Group

Designing for Sustainable Choices in Taiwan