by Yetta Starr | August 7, 2026Designing a Better Chicago, From the Ground Up A look at the 2026 Designing a Better Chicago grantees and the grassroots projects using design to respond to real community needs across the city.
by Vasia Rigou | July 24, 2026Designing a Disability-Forward Future A Design Museum of Chicago exhibition invites us to rethink access as a force for imagination, community and cultural change.
by Vasia Rigou | June 5, 2026Five Ways to Move Through Chicago Design Week (Without Burning Out) Go to The Mart. Go west to Fulton Market. Go offsite. Go out after dark.
by Vasia Rigou | April 3, 2026What Tanner Woodford Built at the Design Museum of Chicago As the founder of the institution says farewell, he reflects on the ideas that guided the museum's first ten years.
by Vasia Rigou | November 14, 2025The Design Museum of Chicago’s “Design on Draft” Judges Beer By Its Label The new exhibition, co-curated with the Beer Culture Center, considers beer labels as cultural artifacts and suggests that the next six-pack you pick up is as much a design decision as it is one of taste.
by Vasia Rigou | May 30, 2025Design In Motion: Your Insider Guide to NeoCon + Fulton Market Design Days