Lead partner
AIGA, the professional association for design, is committed to furthering excellence in design as a broadly-defined discipline, strategic tool for business and cultural force. AIGA is the place design professionals turn to first to exchange ideas and information, participate in critical analysis and research and advance education and ethical practice.
www.aiga.org
Sponsors
Home to many of the world's most celebrated magazines and websites, Condé Nast Publications not only informs readers, but also ignites and nourishes their passions. Condé Nast is known for an unwavering commitment to journalistic integrity, influential reporting and superior design. Week after week, month after month, millions of dedicated, highly focused readers come to Condé Nast knowing they will be engaged by the leading minds of our time: writers, editors, contributors and artists who share their passions.
www.condenast.com
Media partner
BusinessWeek is a global news franchise that serves actionable insight and business news to its professional and executive audience over a wide array of platforms, including the BusinessWeek Global Edition, founded in 1929 with 4.7 million readers; seven International Local Editions; BusinessWeek Small Biz; BusinessWeek Inside Innovation, launched in 2006 to provide insight into how to operationalize innovation and use design thinking to creatively solve problems; BusinessWeek.com; BusinessWeek TV; and a variety of other businesses.
www.businessweek.com/innovate/
Co-sponsor
One of the nation's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance. Located in the heart of downtown Chicago, the MCA boasts a gift store, bookstore, restaurant, 300-seat theater, and a terraced sculpture garden with a great view of Lake Michigan.
www.mcachicago.org
