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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ID Commencement 2022

Join us online Saturday, May 14

April 29, 2022

ID Commencement

All degrees for the 2020–21 Commencement Ceremony at Illinois Tech will be awarded on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in a ticketed in-person ceremony. The event will also be streamed.

ID students, family, and friends are invited to watch the Opening Ceremony hosted by the university starting at 10am on May 14.

ID’s own ceremony will be streamed on YouTube beginning at 12pm on May 14 and will include remarks from Interim Dean Anijo Mathew, Director of Student Success Shari Jones, graduates Parker Joyner and Monica Villazon San Martin, and ID alum Rodrigo Isasi (MDM 2013).

We also invite family and friends to peruse The Space Between: ID’s End of Year Show (EOYS) 2021–22. Register here to join us for the opening celebration on Friday, May 13, 6pm at Kaplan.

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