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

Online IIT Institute of Design Program Preview

December 5, 2018
9:00-10:00am CST
Online
Google Hangout

We are hosting a Google Hangout featuring IIT Institute of Design's enrollment and admissions advisor, Krista Roble, as well as current students and faculty. This session is meant for prospective Master of Design or Master of Design Methods students, and will focus on how these degrees can help you bring design to the center of your work.


Once you have registered, you will receive a Google calendar invitation with access to the Hangout.

Register