What’s next for Design in the 2020s? This year’s Design 50 highlights Chicago’s creatives—those who give us boundary-pushing work, immersive experiences and all-around impeccable design across all realms. But in the light of the new decade we also posed an important question: What’s next for the transdisciplinary ever-evolving Chicago design scene? Their informed predictions, guesses, thoughts and ideas reflect some widely held desires, hopes and fears for where the design world is headed. It is also further proof that those fifty creatives are without a doubt among the city’s shining stars—the ones to bring in high hopes, hard work and positive change. Here’s what the landscape of design will look like in 2020 according to the fifty most innovative Chicago designers. (Vasia Rigou)
Design 50 2020 is written by Vasia Rigou with additional contributions by Olivia Canny, Brittany Garrett, Isa Giallorenzo and Cat Strain.
All photos by Nathan Keay on location at Facility.
The Hall of Fame
These folks, or the roles they inhabit, are so well-established and foundational to the design world of Chicago that they are always near the top of the list.
Carol Ross Barney
Ross Barney Architects
Jeanne Gang
Studio Gang
Theaster Gates
Rebuild Foundation
Iker Gil
MAS Studio
Dawn Hancock
Firebelly Design
Matthew Hoffman
You Are Beautiful
Cody Hudson
Struggle Inc.
Helmut Jahn
Jahn
Kara Mann
Kara Mann
Jason Pickleman
JNL Design
Maria Pinto
M2057
John Ronan
John Ronan Architects
John Vinci
Vinci Hamp Architects
Scott Wilson
MINIMAL
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