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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Current Students Dish on our MDes + MBA Dual-Degree Program

Get the scoop in our unique November 3 info session

By Krista Roble

October 22, 2021

Hear from current students who have varied paths to ID and a diverse set of interests and passions to pursue upon graduation. They will share how the MDes + MBA program has built on their previous work experience, how they get involved in the student community beyond classes, how they’re customizing the curriculum to fit their interests, and what they plan to do next.

Students joining us include:

Jocelyn Jia (MDes + MBA 2022)
Joanna Veleris (MDes + MBA + Foundation 2022)
Katherine Gowland (MDes + MBA 2023)
Parker Joyner (MDes + MBA 2022)
Nishanth Srikanth (MDes + MBA 2023)

Register now to join the session on Wednesday, November 3 at 5:30pm or sign up to find out about other upcoming events.

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