Chicago Design Museum

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The Chicago Design Museum (ChiDM) is a design museum in the Chicago loop. Founded in 2012 as a pop-up museum, and holds exhibitions in various places in Chicago in 2012 and 2013. After the successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2014, the museum opened a permanent location in the 37th block building.

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Mission and destination

The Chicago Design Museum's mission is to "strengthen the design culture and build communities by facilitating the exchange of knowledge through dynamic experiences."

The program is collaborative and community-based, largely relying on local volunteers for exhibition design, curation, registration, marketing, and other core functions of museology. With a small staff, the foundation is "in the vision and work of many volunteers."

The museum is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that believes that design has the capacity to improve the human condition in a fundamental way. It fosters free, open, and honest involvement with diverse audiences through permanent collections, exhibition play, and educational programs.

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Exhibition

The exhibition focuses on the broad definition of cross-disciplinary design, including graphic design, architecture, urban planning, interior design, system thinking, and more.

Keep Moving: Designing a Chicago Bicycle Culture (October 19, 2018 - February 15, 2019)
Great Idea of â€‹â€‹Humanity: Get out of the Container (April 20 - August 18, 2018)
HEY! PLAY! Games in Modern Culture (October 20, 2017 - March 10, 2018)
Confluence o 20 Creative Ecologies Hong Kong (October 14, 2017 - November 4, 2017)
And Friedman: Radical Modernist (April 28, 2017 - August 12, 2017)
City of Ideas: Voice and Vision Architects (October 22, 2016 - February 25, 2017)
ChicagoMade: Great Idea of â€‹â€‹Humanity (December 1, 2016 - December 3, 2016)
Unfolded: Made with Paper (April 5, 2016 - August 27, 2016)
New Horizon: Architecture from Ireland (October 2, 2015 - January 30, 2016)
The State of Detroit (April 28, 2015 - August 29, 2015)
Deborah Sussman Loves Los Angeles! (November 13, 2014 - February 28, 2015)
Start/Specs: Graphics Design in Chicago Past and Future (June 12, 2014 - September 30, 2014)
Works on Play (June 1, 2013 - June 30, 2013)
A - Z: Art on Track (September 22, 2012)
Inaguration Exhibition: 700 N Sacramento (1 June 2012 - 30 June 2012)

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Important projects

Great Ideas of Humanity

Great Ideas of Humanity is a series of ads in which contemporary artists and designers are asked to create artworks that respond to citations by eminent scientists, philosophers, and academics. The series serves as a "recognition of the increasing globalization or our world and resulted in cross pollination of ideas, philosophy, society, and culture," and was inspired by the great ideas of the West Man campaign by the Chicago Container Corporation of America. Ads from this series have been exhibited in downtown Chicago on the Bus Rapid Transit advertising giant, and in Hong Kong at the Design Week Week Design InnoTech.

Contributors include Matthew Hoffman on Susan B. Anthony, Andy Gregg on Mary Wollstonecraft, Renata Graw on Hypatia, Max Temkin on Bertolt Brecht, 50000feet at Goethe, Margot Harrington on Sojourner Truth, Cocu Liu at George Sand, Pouya Ahmadi at Rumi, Patternbase at Lucy Larcom, Eileen Tjan at Goethe, Kimberly Terzis on Anne Sophie Swetchine, Alexander Skoirchet on Buddha, Marcus Norman on Lucy Larcom, Tanner Woodford on Edith Wharton, Veronica Corzo-Duchardt on Goethe, LaShun Tines on Frederick Douglass, Matthew Terdich on Benjamin Franklin , BibliothÃƒÆ'Ã‚Â¨que in Alfred North Whitehead, Hugh Dubberly on John Dewey, and Ivan Chermayeff on Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Chicago Design Market

The Chicago Design Market is "a series of spinning pop-up shops that create an unexpected by putting small artists that appear next to larger established businesses.Located on the third floor of Block 37," the shops are not charged for utilities and do not pay fixed monthly rent. Instead, the museum takes a sales commission. This allows small or business designers, such as Aviate Press, to market in retail space, while allowing larger companies, such as the Card Against Humanity, to experiment with their space and business models. "

Stores are selected through the application process. They include: Card Against Humanity, Colossal Store, Your Beautiful, Fourneau Bread Oven, Chicago Institute of Art School, Resketch, Sweetwater Foundation, Shawnimals, Aviate Press, AIA Chicago, Dock 6 Collective and mercer & amp; winnie.

Package Design

The Design Pack is a card for a Humanity expansion card that includes 30 picture cards that interpret the famous George Carlin monologue 1972, "Seven Words You Can not Tell on Television". All proceeds from the Design Package benefited the Chicago Design Museum, with sales exceeding $ 130,000 in the first few days on the market. Similar nonprofit packages by Cards Against Humanity have collected nearly millions of dollars for partner organizations DonorsChoose.org, Wikimedia Foundation, and Sunlight Foundation.

Contributors to the Design Package include Laura Park, Shawna X, Chad Kouri, Susan Kare, Yann Legendre, Paula Scher, Jay Ryan, Mike McQuade, Paul Octavious, Erik Spiekermann, Max Temkin, Debbie Millman, Paul Art, Simon Whybray, Mike Mitchell, Scott Thomas, Matthew Terdich, Jez Burrows, Jason Polan, Jessica Hische, Cody Hudson, Nick Adam, Matthew Hoffman, Magdalena Wistuba Anna Mort, Eric Hu, Olly Moss, Tanner Woodford, Milton Glaser, and Sonnenzimmer.