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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Judd Morgenstern

Co-Managing Partner, Partners Resolute

Judd Morgenstern, Institute of Design Board Member

Judd Morgenstern is Co-Managing Partner of Partners Resolute, a boutique office that invests across public securities, alternatives, private equity, and early-stage ventures.

As a believer in the value of ambidextrous thinking, Judd followed a multidisciplinary career path that spanned private equity, innovation strategy, and product design. He worked as an Associate at Valor Equity Partners, an operationally oriented private equity fund with early investments in Tesla Motors and SpaceX, before pursuing a double masters in design and business. Judd later held roles at Adaptive Path and IA Collaborative, where he joined top human-centered designers to help companies such as Mozilla Labs, Nike, and Johnson & Johnson internalize innovation methods, discover new market opportunities, and design next generation products and services.

Additionally, Judd serves as Co-General Partner and investment lead for Resolute Venture Partners, where he enjoys working at the intersection of design thinking and venture investing. He has lead investments in ecommerce, IOT, media, mobile, smart home, and other sectors, and is always trying to spot the next wave.

Judd holds a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Vanderbilt University, as well as a Master of Design from the Institute of Design and MBA from the Stuart School of Business, both at Illinois Institute of Technology. Judd lives in New York City, but can usually be found lost in the internet.