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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Nermin Moufti & Kristin Lueke

Co-Founders | Field of Practice

Field of Practice is a woman- and member-owned creative studio that designs for change. Comprehensive, transformative branding is our bread and butter. We love designing IRL and digital spaces, environments and experiences that cultivate connection, joy and excellent conversation. We serve scrappy start-ups, conscientious consumer brands and movement organizations alike, from the Collaborative for Gender + Reproductive Equity and Terra Foundation for American Art, to Dentologie, Glean Skincare, and Watermelon Pictures. From visual and verbal branding to digital, print and experience design, we lead with curiosity and craft with care.

Field of Practice is a session presenter for the Design as Activism Symposium.