IIT Institute of Design

Data from ID’s graduates over the past ten years shows the breadth of our Alumni alumni’s influence across fields, roles, and industries. History + Alumni Careers IIT Institute of Design’s talented and accomplished alumni span 80 years, six different graduate programs, and over 30 countries around the globe. Whether as entrepreneurs, consultants, strategists, design Design / Consulting practitioners, teachers, or leaders in industry, government, and non-profit organizations, ID graduates are pioneering thinkers and interdisciplinary problem solvers known for the impact of their work. Technology Healthcare INDUSTRIES

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B.S. Design M.S. Design M.S. Photo MDes MDes + MBA PhD Design MDM Consumer Business 100 908 Students 543 Students 20 Students 676 Students 56 Students 30 Students 189 Students Finance

Late 1930s - 1990s 1950s - 1990s 1950s - 1990s Mid 1990s - Present Mid 2000s - Present 1990s - Present 2000s - Present Civic 90 Smart City / Logistics While many alumni cluster in the North László Moholy-Nagy’s first ID initiated a master’s Designed to deepen the The movement from a M.S. The first program of its kind The first program of its kind This degree was created American Midwest, graduate locations also program sought to develop program in response to study of photography, this Design to a design-specific to combine a user-centered, in the United States, ID’s for mid-career professionals Global reflect the significant global profile of the designers with a holistic director Serge Chermayeff’s program produced so many degree reflected Jay method-based approach to PhD was was created for who want to increase their Innovation Strategy / Product Management school's attendees, as well as industry hubs for understanding of craft and desire to allow students to graduates who moved on to Doblin’s efforts to create a design strategy and students who wish to teach impact through design-driven design and innovation, such as Silicon Valley, 80 construction, as well as develop a higher level of develop competing professional design innovation with core or conduct foundational innovation. The program Experience Designer design theory. mastery in their chosen photography programs at program relying on a business management skills. research in design. The provides rigorous Berlin, New York, Seoul, Beijing, Mumbai, Tokyo, and São Paulo. discipline, whether industrial other schools that it’s often repeatable, methodical program is supported by frameworks and methods Researcher Alumni ID’s bachelor’s program design or visual arts. credited with putting itself approach. MDes students corporate and NGO that working professionals 70 ended in the late 90s when out of business. now make up roughly 80% sponsorships. can apply to complex Design Lead / Co-Founder / CEO ID increased the focus on its of ID’s student body. problems. The MDM attracts master’s program. students across design and Product Designer non-design fields, yielding an interdisciplinary mix of 60 ROLES Service Designer perspectives that has become a hallmark of the program. Communication Designer

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Location > > 1905 S Prarie Ave 1009 N State St S.R. Crown Hall, Main Campus 350 N LaSalle St Kaplan Institute, Main Campus 247 E Ontario St 632 N Dearborn 632 N Dearborn 10 W 35th St, IITRI Building 565 Adams St

László Moholy-Nagy Serge Chermayeff Crombie Taylor acting Jay Doblin Jay Doblin Jay Doblin Dale Fahnstrom Patrick Whitney Denis Weil Department chair > > James Montague Benjamin Brie Taylor Lute Wassman Dietmar Winkler

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Events > > | Moholy-Nagy arrives in at the invitation of the Association of Arts and Industries | Jay Doblin introduces design theory into curriculum | Charles Owen founds Design Process Laboratory | Research and teaching PhD program | MDes MBA dual degree launched | 101 Design Methods by Vijay Kumar published

| Nazis close Bauhaus | The New Bauhaus begins | Moholy dies at age 51 | Terminal professional MDes degree | Master of Design Methods program launched

| and his wife Elizabeth helped reopen the school | Entire new set of 500 level classes added | Design Summer Camp introduced | Then Now Next, ID’s 80th anniversary gala

| Acquires title 'Institute of Design' | First mention of graduate program in IIT Bulletin | Structured Planning by Charles Owen published | First HITS Conference, later to become | Executive Ed format MDM launched | First Design Intersections convening Strategy Conference | ID merges with Institute of Technology | Final year of undergraduate class | First About With For Conference, later to become Design Research Conference

Focus / direction > > Experimental and theoretical Developing photography education model Combining professional and academic Systems and systematic design introduced Design methodologies to provide structure Focuses on changes design must make as Design planning and ethnographic methods introduced Sharing design knowledge beyond core Focus on responsibility and advocacy through strengthening of product design for solving complex problems introduced society moves from mass to specialization degrees with a broader community of practice design for impactful and resilient change Bauhaus-based curriculum, foundation then specialization Adapting new, rational methods to help Building a field theory of design via a set of Integrating both theory and practice from Sustainable, adaptive, and collaborative designers understand and master problems formal theories, methods, processes, and tools related fields approaches to complex challenges

The changing nature of design problems: from singular to systems, simple to complex

Design based on research, systematic methods and the information obtained with them