In “Expanding the Definitions of Design,” published in the July 15 edition the International Herald Tribune and featured on nytimes.com, writer Alice Rawsthorn highlights practical youth-oriented design courses co-founded by SAIC alumna Emily Pilloton (MFA 2005). Aimed at providing practical design strategies, a design course for high school students called Studio H—as well as a design camp for young girls called Studio G—approach design as a means to increasing everyday resourcefulness.
Fifteen full-time faculty joined the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) working across a range of departments.
In an ongoing collaboration with Swarovski, SAIC student work is featured in the Swarovski anniversary retrospective in New York.
Chicago Tribune Blue Sky Innovation features SAIC's use of new technologies and traditional methods of making.
The tech-focused website, Wired, recently ran a story on the Array of Things, a collaboration between the Urban Center for Computation and Data at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
New AIADO director Jonathan Solomon discusses future plans for the program.
AIADO faculty Lisa Norton was recently interviewed by Core 77 for its D-School Futures series.
The Society for Experiential Graphic Design recently spoke with AIADO faculty members George Aye and Sara Cantor Aye about their human-centered design work.
Newcity features 14 SAIC community figures in its annual Design 50 issue.