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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Krejci, Donald, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Krejci, Donald, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Krejci, Donald, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Donald Krejci, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1974. Krejci recounts his experience as a...
Show moreVideo interview with Donald Krejci, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1974. Krejci recounts his experience as a student under Arthur Siegel and the details of his master's thesis. Running time is 5:59 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Kostiner, Lewis, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Kostiner, Lewis, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Kostiner, Lewis S., 1950-, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Lewis Kostiner, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1974. Kostiner recounts his experiences as...
Show moreVideo interview with Lewis Kostiner, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1974. Kostiner recounts his experiences as an undergraduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, as well as at ID as a graduate student under Arthur Siegel. Running time is 13:12 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Sterling, Deborah Oral History Interview, 2011
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Sterling, Deborah Oral History Interview, 2011
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Deborah Sterling, speaking on behalf of her deceased husband Joseph Sterling, who received his MS in Design from the...
Show moreVideo interview with Deborah Sterling, speaking on behalf of her deceased husband Joseph Sterling, who received his MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1962. Running time is 7:36 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Josephson, Kenneth, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Josephson, Kenneth, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Josephson, Kenneth, 1932-, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Kenneth Josephson, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1960. Josephson recounts his experience...
Show moreVideo interview with Kenneth Josephson, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1960. Josephson recounts his experience as a student under Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Art Sinsabaugh, as well as an ID faculty member in the mid 1960s. Running time is 19:27 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Mosher, Robert, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Mosher, Robert, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Mosher, Robert, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Robert (Bob) Mosher, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1972. Mosher recounts his experience as...
Show moreVideo interview with Robert (Bob) Mosher, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1972. Mosher recounts his experience as a student under Garry Winogrand. Running time is 7:30 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Lutch, Michael, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Lutch, Michael, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Lutch, Michael, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Michael Lutch, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1974. Lutch recounts his experience as a...
Show moreVideo interview with Michael Lutch, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1974. Lutch recounts his experience as a student under Arthur Siegel, and how ID informed his vision as a present-day commercial photographer. Running time is 9:13 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Leinwohl, Steffens, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Leinwohl, Steffens, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Leinwohl, Steffens, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Steffens (Stef) Leinwohl, who received a B.S. in Design from the Institute of Design in 1963. Leinwohl recounts his...
Show moreVideo interview with Steffens (Stef) Leinwohl, who received a B.S. in Design from the Institute of Design in 1963. Leinwohl recounts his experiences as an undergraduate photography student at ID and how the faculty and fellow students influenced him. Leinwohl displays some of his own photographs created while at ID. Running time is 32:12 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Burd, Richard, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Burd, Richard, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Burd, Richard, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Richard (Dick) Burd, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1970. Burd recounts his experiences as...
Show moreVideo interview with Richard (Dick) Burd, who received an MS in Design from the Institute of Design in 1970. Burd recounts his experiences as a photography student at ID and how his education informs his current photography work. Running time is 10:42 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Langston, Judy Oral History Interview, 2011
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Langston, Judy Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Langston, Judy A., Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Judy Langston, who received an MS in Photography from the Institute of Design in 1982. Langston describes the photography...
Show moreVideo interview with Judy Langston, who received an MS in Photography from the Institute of Design in 1982. Langston describes the photography facilities at ID during her time as a student, as well as other experiences. Running time is 8:35 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Swedlund, Charles, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Swedlund, Charles, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Swedlund, Charles, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
Date
2011-05-01
Description
Video interview with Charles Swedlund, who received a B.S. in Photography from the Institute of Design in 1958 and an M.S. in Design shortly...
Show moreVideo interview with Charles Swedlund, who received a B.S. in Photography from the Institute of Design in 1958 and an M.S. in Design shortly thereafter. Swedlund recounts his experiences as a student and faculty member at ID (both on Clark St. and when ID moved to IIT campus in south Chicago) and elsewhere. Running time is 21:30 minutes.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Crane, Barbara, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Crane, Barbara, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Crane, Barbara, 1928-, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
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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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Gerlach, Monte, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Gerlach, Monte, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Gerlach, Monte, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
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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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Palazzolo, Marcia, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Palazzolo, Marcia, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Palazzolo, Marcia, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
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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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Douthat, Anita, Oral History Interview, 2011
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Douthat, Anita, Oral History Interview, 2011
Creator
Douthat, Anita, Walker, Dale, Kuruna, Daniel
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.
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Institute of Design Photography Oral History Project, 2011
Design Direction, Book 2
Title
Design Direction, Book 2
Creator
Henry, Mary Dill, 1913-2009
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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Mary Dill Henry Papers, 1913-2021
Chicago School of Design
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Advertisement for Saturday Morning Children's Club at Chicago School of Design, 1944
Creator
Chicago School of Design
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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Institute of Design records, 1937-ca. 1962
Jay Doblin with unidentified Institute of Design students, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1955-1965
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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Institute of Design records, 1942-2001
Jay Doblin's People Chair with an unidentified aluminum chair, ca. 1960
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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Institute of Design records, 1942-2001
Marnie Averitt and Jay Doblin in Sparky the Electric Auto, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1961-1963
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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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Institute of Design records, 1942-2001
Takatsugu Sugiyama's Ribbon Chair, with Sugiyama and Jay Doblin in the background, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1960
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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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Institute of Design records, 1942-2001

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