Alumni News & Events

27 September 2005

Roger Sweet (MS 1960) recently published a book about his time at Mattel, where he originated the concept for He-Man and the Masters Of The Universe. ID spoke with him about his background in design, his early work, and what it means to be a tough guy.. Read the interview.

19 May 2005

Alumni gathering at ID Strategy Conference
at Thyme Cafe, Chicago

9 May 2005

Seattle alumni gathering
6:00 PM
Yarrow Bay Grill, Beach Café
1270 Carillon Point
Kirkland, WA
425.889.9052

Join area alumni for drinks and snacks, and hear the latest from ID's director Patrick Whitney. For more information contact Debbie Cargile at Debbie.Cargile@gettyimages.com . Valet parking is available for $3 per car, located in front of the Yarrow Bay Grill. General directions: http://www.ybbeachcafe.com/beachcafe/directions.html.

19 August 2004

ID spoke with photography and film alumnus Steven Poster about his career in cinematography, how Bauhaus techniques can be applied to filmmaking, and the importance of political activism. Read the interview.

15 December 2003

Congratulations to the Class of Fall 2003!

Pictured are:

Top row, from left: Jonathan Friedman, Ameresh Viswanathan, Myron Smith, Megan Fath, Roger Guinee, Dale Wunderlich, Iteem Hu, Zhukai Zhang.

Bottom row, from left: Mark Klein, Jing Wu, Judy Chien, Weiming Huang.

(Not pictured: Angelo Frigo, Tong Miao.)

21 November 2003

ID interviewed photo alum Charles Traub about his latest work, and what it was like to study photography at ID under Aaron Siskind and other giants. Read the interview.

11 November 2003

We spoke with alumna Kathleen Brandenburg about design planning, starting her own design consultancy, and the importance of having a guiding philosophy. Read the interview.

4 November 2003

ID spoke with one of its earliest alumni, Louis Silverstein (MS 1949) about his distinguished career as art director for the New York Times. Read the interview.

24 October 2003

ID alumni gathered in Seoul, South Korea, on October 24th for the 2nd annual ID Asian Alumni Meeting. They met at the Hotel Shilla over lunch and discussed regional and global design issues. Kun-Pyo Lee (MS '81) organized the gathering, which was held in conjunction with the meeting of the broader IIT Asian Alumni Association.

21 March 2002

Alumni in Chicago, San Francisco and New York gathered for the 4th ID Alumni Forum on March 21, 2002. The discussion topic for the evening was "Success Themes: Results of the ID Alumni Survey."

Alumni Ilya Prokopoff, Joan Moriyama, Brad Nemer and Dinesh Goburdhun eat and meet at SmartDesign's office in San Francisco.

This gathering was to discuss some of the success themes that were gathered in the recent ID alumni survey. The themes gathered in the survey ranged across more than 40 years of ID's history. Alumni discussed how their professional successes tied in with their education and experiences at ID. The school is interested in gathering these success stories on an ongoing basis to keep alumni informed of each others' successes and also to highlight to prospective students and industry the influence of ID's unique education.

Summaries of the Chicago and San Francisco meetings.

23 January 2002

Alumni in Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle gathered for the 3rd ID Alumni Forum on December 6, 2001. The discussion topic for the evening was "Experience Design: The Rebuilding of Design Practice."

After large companies gobbled up smaller design firms only to let them go when the market soured, the design profession is rebuilding itself through the formulation of new companies and other groups exploring hybrid approaches to working. In this environment, "experience designers" are practicing multiple disciplines (e.g. user research and information architecture, or IA and graphic design or web development), either out of necessity or a reassessment of their approach.

Each forum had presentations given by ID alumni. Presenters were asked to focus on how they have adapted their practice, undertaken new business development or otherwise reacted to recent market changes. Presentations focused on how a client problem was solved, what methods were employed to gain insight to users, or how new projects were won. Work examples illustrated process and discussed resulting benefits.

Read the summaries of the Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle meetings. The San Francisco meeting included discussion of this case study by Joanne Mendel about on-line collaborative worspace.

If you have interest in organizing a similar discussion in your city, or would like to put forth ideas for future discussion topics, please contact Bridget Luby.

Read summaries of the first and second meetings.

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