The Institute of Design's Vimeo channel contains over 75 (and counting) videos and several hundred hours of content, ranging from five-minute mini-lectures, to 20-minute documentaries on design techniques, to 45-minute conference talks. Follow along and become a fan at http://www.vimeo.com/iitdesign

The Irish Independent mentions ID grad Arthur Paul (1950) in a retrospective of Hugh Hefner, whose autobiography is due out next month. Paul designed the iconic logo for Hefner's Playboy.

Noted photographer and teacher Barbara Crane's (MS '66) exhibition at the IIT art gallery was reviewed in TimeOut Chicago. Also reviewed: the Art Institute of Chicago's Learning Modern exhibition, part of a tribute to the Bauhaus and ID's founder, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

Tara Mullaney reviews ID's 2009 Design Research Conference (Oct 1-2) for the core77 blog, and determines "It's all about Synthesis".

Design School Confidential, a new book by Steven Heller, contains a chapter on the work of Tomoko Ichikawa's communication design workshop on visualizing complex information across multiple communication channels. The work includes that of Lucas Daniel ('05), Jessica Gatto ('08), Kyungsun Kim ('08) and Phillip LaFargue ('05).

ID made BusinessWeek's list again this year, along with several top-notch schools from around the world. The feature highlights ID's dual MBA/MDes degree program.

Design Integrations, edited by ID professor Keiichi Sato and former faculty member Sharon Poggenpohl, was published by Intellect, UK in September. The book's six chapters are authored by many ID community members, including three current faculty members (Tom MacTavish, Judith Gregory, and Sato), Poggenpohl, alumnus Toby Bottorf (MDes '94), and adjunct faculty member Aaron Marcus.

The book has two sections, "Design Research" and "Design Collaboration," with a total of 13 chapters contributed by authors with diverse backgrounds. It addresses an innovative rethinking on design research, education, and practice. The international contributors urge new methods that focus on interdisciplinary collaboration between the academic and business worlds and an understanding of new dimensions of design and research opportunities. Design Integrations will be of interest to advanced students, practitioners, researchers, and educators.

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Professor Jeremy Alexis was interviewed for the September issue of The Innovators, an on-line publication put out by Innovate1st. Download article (PDF , 165.32KB)

In this four minute video, Patrick Whitney explains the value of abstracting design problems, using the example of Apple's entry into the music business. http://www.vimeo.com/5750600.

A visiting lecture by Japanese designer Kazuo Kawasaki occasions a story in Chicago's Skyline News weekly: "Meet the designer of Sarah Palin's glasses, Kazuo Kawasaki".

Bruce blogs the conference and some of his favorite takeaways on his blog, and posits that Chicago "is a rare city that gets innovation."

This special issue of the Journal of Business Strategy, edited by Vijay Kumar of the Institute of Design, brings together experts from many fields to discuss how design innovation can be successfully practiced through adopting formalized design processes. The papers come from innovators in fields as diverse as healthcare, digital products, software, telecommunications, space planning, web services, city planning, and education.

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Bruce Nussbaum poses the question in his BusinessWeek blog, and suggests that if "the vigor now infusing design appears to be coming from outside the field from non-designers... it may very well be just fine that non-designers take design to the next level. But probably not."

ID hosts Buckminster Fuller: The Design Science Exhibit, a hands-on, all-ages introduction to the geometric and natural forms underlying Fuller's work. Fuller taught in the 1940s while working on prototypes of his famous geodesic dome.

ID's self-published collection of interviews with design and innovation thought-leaders, including Bill Buxton, Valerie Casey, Rob Forbes, Clement Mok and several more. 64 pages, fully illustrated. Download an excerpt here; to purchase a full copy for $19.95 plus shipping, visit IIT's secure payment site. Download article (PDF , 4.55MB)

Visiting professor Tom MacTavish gives a hallway video interview about the new LiveScribe smart-pen, at the 2008 IxDA Conference in Vancouver.

The authors of "C.P. Snow's Two Cultures Are Emerging" cite the Institute of Design as "reportedly having found a way to bridge the chasm between business and design."

An in-depth profile of design-thinking guru David Kelley (IDEO and Stanford d.school) by Linda Tischler in Fast Company also quotes Patrick Whitney and ID. (see page 3)

Jeremy Alexis debates Cranbrook's Scott Clinker in this joint interview from Interactions Magazine and IDSA's Innovation Magazine. Full text via Cranbrook at http://www.cranbrookdesign.com/index.php/topics/more/design_versus_innovation_the_cranbrook_iit_debate/.

The New Idiom student newsletter gets a facelift: see http://thenewidiom.com/

Bruce Nussbaum blogs an open letter to President-elect Obama arguing for a council of advisors on design and innovation. He recommends ID dean Patrick Whitney, among others.