Institute of Design

The Institute of Design collections held by the University Archives and Special Collections contain a variety of materials which reflect the history of the school since its founding as the New Bauhaus of Chicago by László Moholy-Nagy in 1937. They include academic catalogs, class and school activities announcements, biographical materials, student work, exhibit catalogs, announcements of student and alumni professional activities, essays, speeches, periodical articles, photographs, scrapbooks and news clippings by and about the school and its members. Materials found within the Institute of Design collections pertain to institutional history; with few exceptions, University Archives and Special Collections does not hold the personal papers or creative output of former faculty of the Institute of Design or its predecessor schools.

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Title: Crane, Barbara, Oral History Interview, 2011
Date: 2011-05-01
Description: Video interview with Barbara Crane, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1966. Crane recounts some of her experiences...
Show moreVideo interview with Barbara Crane, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1966. Crane recounts some of her experiences as a working photographer, a former student under Aaron Siskind, and a photography instructor at the Art Institution of Chicago. Running time is 15:01 minutes.
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Collection: Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011

Title: Gerlach, Monte, Oral History Interview, 2011
Date: 2011-05-01
Description: Video interview with Monte Gerlach, who received his MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1975. Gerlach recounts his experiences as a...
Show moreVideo interview with Monte Gerlach, who received his MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1975. Gerlach recounts his experiences as a student and teacher's assistant for Arthur Siegel. Running time is 4:25 minutes.
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Collection: Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011

Title: Palazzolo, Marcia, Oral History Interview, 2011
Date: 2011-05-01
Description: Video interview with Marcia Palazzolo, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1970. Palazzolo recounts her experience as...
Show moreVideo interview with Marcia Palazzolo, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1970. Palazzolo recounts her experience as a student under Aaron Siskind and Arthur Siegel. Running time is 3:48 minutes.
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Collection: Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011

Title: Douthat, Anita, Oral History Interview, 2011
Date: 2011-05-01
Description: Video interview with Anita Douthat, who received her BS in Photography from the Institute of Design in 1972. Running time is 5:25 minutes.
Collection: Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011

Title: Advertisement for Saturday Morning Children's Club at Chicago School of Design, 1944
Date: 1944
Description: Advertisement for Saturday Morning Children's Club, a multidisciplinary children's art workshop offered by the Chicago School of Design,...
Show moreAdvertisement for Saturday Morning Children's Club, a multidisciplinary children's art workshop offered by the Chicago School of Design, featuring artwork by two local children. The date listed is uncertain, but inferred from the pencil notation on recto.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Institute of Design of Illinois Institute of Technology: Evening courses 1950-51
Date: 1950-1951
Description: Evening course catalog for the Institute of Design, 1950-1951. In addition to a descriptive listing of evening classes and a class schedule,...
Show moreEvening course catalog for the Institute of Design, 1950-1951. In addition to a descriptive listing of evening classes and a class schedule, the catalog includes the aims and history of the Institute of Design, a faculty roster, and other pertinent information about the enrollment process.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Ken Isaacs with the Knowledge Box, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1962
Date: 1962
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design visiting lecturer Ken Isaacs and the Knowledge Box.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Ken Isaacs with the Knowledge Box, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1962
Date: 1962
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design visiting lecturer Ken Isaacs and the Knowledge Box.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Ken Isaacs with the Knowledge Box, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, 1962
Date: 1962
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design visiting lecturer Ken Isaacs and the Knowledge Box.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: New Bauhaus scrapbook, 1936-1938
Date: 1936-1938
Description: Thirty-seven page scrapbook with hand made fabric covered box with lower case letter b (for Bauhaus) on font in silver metal. Scrapbook (16 x...
Show moreThirty-seven page scrapbook with hand made fabric covered box with lower case letter b (for Bauhaus) on font in silver metal. Scrapbook (16 x 16”) has black plastic covers, spiral bound with manila card stock pages. Includes news clippings and tear sheets from periodicals about the opening of The New Bauhaus as well as the academic catalogue and program announcements, and a letter from Walter Gropius (5/18/1937) recommending Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as director. Creator unknown, assumed to be affiliated with the New Bauhaus.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Students in front of the New Bauhaus entrance, Chicago, Illinois, 1937
Date: 1937
Description: Photograph of students in front of the New Bauhaus building, formerly the Marshall Field mansion.
Collection: Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962

Title: Institute of Design sculpture class, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1956-1969
Date: 1956-1969
Description: Photograph of an Insitute of Design Sculpture class in S.R. Crown Hall. Possibly pictured at center is Professor Cosmo Campoli. Photographer...
Show morePhotograph of an Insitute of Design Sculpture class in S.R. Crown Hall. Possibly pictured at center is Professor Cosmo Campoli. Photographer unknown, possibly Reginal Heron. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Institute of Design faculty members, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1976
Date: 1976
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design faculty members (left to right) John Grimes, John Askwith, James Montague, Len Singer, Robert Graeff, David...
Show morePhotograph of Institute of Design faculty members (left to right) John Grimes, John Askwith, James Montague, Len Singer, Robert Graeff, David Rathbun, Arthur Siegel, and Ken Biasco. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate, based on this photograph's use in the 1976 edition of Integral, the Illinois Tech yearbook.
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Collection: Office of Communications and Marketing photographs, 1905-1999

Title: Design Direction, Book 2
Date: 1946
Description: Design Direction was Mary Henry's 1946 thesis for her graduate degree at the Institute of Design. The project, completed in collaboration with...
Show moreDesign Direction was Mary Henry's 1946 thesis for her graduate degree at the Institute of Design. The project, completed in collaboration with Emerson Woelffer, was based on a class for beginning students taught by Woelffer at ID. The course consisted of 18 exercises exploring the basic elements of design, each of which is represented in Henry's Design Directions. Book 1 consists of the design exercises themselves, Book 2 contains the textual component of the project.
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Collection: Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021

Title: Jay Doblin with unidentified Institute of Design students, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1955-1965
Date: 1955-1965
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design Dean Jay Doblin with unidentified ID students and the interior of a partially constructed vehicle, Illinois...
Show morePhotograph of Institute of Design Dean Jay Doblin with unidentified ID students and the interior of a partially constructed vehicle, Illinois Institute of Technology. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date range listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

Title: Jay Doblin's People Chair with an unidentified aluminum chair, ca. 1960
Date: 1960
Description: Photograph of Jay Doblin's People Chair (right), along with another aluminum chair prototype (left), creator unknown. Doblin, then Dean of the...
Show morePhotograph of Jay Doblin's People Chair (right), along with another aluminum chair prototype (left), creator unknown. Doblin, then Dean of the Institute of Design, designed the People Chair as part of a campaign sponsored by the Alcoa Corporation. It is assumed that the unidentified chair was also designed for this competition. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

Title: Marnie Averitt and Jay Doblin in Sparky the Electric Auto, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1961-1963
Date: 1961-1963
Description: Photograph of Marnie Averitt and Institute of Design Dean Jay Doblin in Sparky, an electric car developed by Averitt, an ID graduate student....
Show morePhotograph of Marnie Averitt and Institute of Design Dean Jay Doblin in Sparky, an electric car developed by Averitt, an ID graduate student. In 1961, Averitt received a design award for Sparky from Alcoa, sponsor of the student design competition at ID. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

Title: Takatsugu Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair, with Sugiyama and Jay Doblin in the background, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960
Date: 1960
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design student Takatsugu Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair, with Sugiyama and ID Dean Jay Doblin in the background. The chair...
Show morePhotograph of Institute of Design student Takatsugu Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair, with Sugiyama and ID Dean Jay Doblin in the background. The chair is most likely inside of S.R. Crown Hall, with Sugiyama and Doblin outside, on the other side of one of the building's glass panes. The chair consists of a single sheet of aluminum, rolled into a ribbon shape and bound to an aluminum base. The chair was designed in response to a call from the Alcoa company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, asking for ID students to design chairs out of a single sheet of aluminum. Sugiyama's design was recognized and awarded by Alcoa. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate. Pencil inscription on verso reads "Alcoa (Pitts.)."
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

Title: Takatsugu Sugiyama and Jay Doblin with Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair on the steps of S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960
Date: 1960
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design student Takatsugu Sugiyama and ID Dean Jay Doblin on the steps of S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of...
Show morePhotograph of Institute of Design student Takatsugu Sugiyama and ID Dean Jay Doblin on the steps of S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, with Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair. The chair consists of a single sheet of aluminum, rolled into a ribbon shape and bound to an aluminum base. The chair was designed in response to a call from the Alcoa company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, asking for ID students to design chairs out of a single sheet of aluminum. Sugiyama's design was recognized and awarded by Alcoa. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

Title: Takatsugu Sugiyama and his Ribbon Chair, Jay Doblin and an unidentified man in the background, S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960
Date: 1960
Description: Photograph of Institute of Design student Takatsugu Sugiyama and his Ribbon Chair, with ID Dean Jay Doblin and an unidentified man in the...
Show morePhotograph of Institute of Design student Takatsugu Sugiyama and his Ribbon Chair, with ID Dean Jay Doblin and an unidentified man in the background, S.R. Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology. The Ribbon Chair consists of a single sheet of aluminum, rolled into a ribbon shape and bound to an aluminum base. The chair was designed in response to a call from the Alcoa company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, asking for ID students to design chairs out of a single sheet of aluminum. Sugiyama's design was recognized and awarded by Alcoa. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date listed is approximate.
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Collection: Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

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