How Design Is Demystifying Cancer Treatment
External beam radiotherapy is the most common treatment for cancer, yet the process, compounded by the uncertainty that a cancer diagnosis can bring, is intimidating and unfamiliar to most patients...
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Alumnus and Faculty Member Dawveed Scully Makes Crain’s 40 Under Forty List
Crain’s Chicago Business has released its 30th annual 40 Under Forty list, which names young professionals in Chicago who have made a significant impact on the city and its communities. This year...
Smoothie Making Finds Its Zen with Institute of Design Students
As busy consumers become increasingly more health conscious, a cottage industry of health-oriented vending machines from the likes of Farmer’s Fridge, Byte Foods, and Chowbotics are providing...
Institute of Design Professor Offers Lessons in Product Design in New Book
Martin Thaler, a studio professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design and a product design expert, is the co-author of a new book 101 Things I Learned in Product Design School...
Reimagining Chicago’s Transit and Park System, College of Architecture Student and Alumnus Receive Burnham Prize
In 1909 the Commercial Club of Chicago funded the creation of Plan of Chicago––commonly called the Burnham Plan in reference to its lead author, architect Daniel Burnham––which proposed a six-point...
Fast Company Honors Institute of Design Parking Ticket Reform Project
A project by Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design titled “Non-Moving Violations: Advancing Equity Among Low-income, Minority Chicago Residents” has been recognized by Fast Company as...
ID Instructor Chris Rudd Selected as 2021 IMPACT Fellow
Christopher Rudd, an instructor specializing in community-driven design at Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design (ID), has been chosen as one of 38 individuals to participate in...
Professor Receives National AIA Award for Library and Public Housing Design
When it opened in early 2019, Independence Library, located in the Chicago neighborhood of Irving Park, replaced the neighborhood’s previous public library, a cramped storefront space that had been...
New Research Takes a High-Impact, Low-Visibility Approach to Thermal Efficiency in Crown Hall
Completed in 1956, S. R. Crown Hall is an early steel and glass building that helped usher in, among other things, a new approach toward educational spaces while echoing the historic “one room...
Dining Pavilions Designed and Built by Students, Alumni, and Faculty Provide Social Distance During COVID-19 Pandemic
As some Chicago restaurants and businesses struggle to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, the All Reimagining Chicago Task Force––composed of city departments, community organizations, and design...