What our students say:
[a discipline]
Yes, there are certain modes that need to be followed and traditions that need to be understood.
Diana Acevedo
BDes Graphic Design, 2012
[rigorous]
This is true, but it sounds daunting and intimidating. The wording does not reflect the enjoyment and satisfaction that can come from design process.
Raegan Budden
BDes Graphic Design, 2012
[inquiry]
Question everything! Instead of accepting something merely for what it is, and choosing not to understand it more, challenge it.
Marisa Isaacs
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[questioning what is and what could be]
Design is more than making something look good.
Stephanie Chan
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
One should never stop questioning why things are the way they are.
Peter McGregory
BDes Graphic Design, 2013
[priviledge]
Interesting word for a public university… where we have access to an education for a privileged profession.
Zach Sherwood
BDes Graphic Design, 2013
[an independent pursuit that precipitates collective action]
Design starts as an independent idea and comes full circle with the action of the users.
Aubrey Sniegowski
BDes Industrial Design, 2013
[Design advances the interplay between the exalted and the everyday]
There is a connection between design that is very conceptual and design that is very plausible.
Taylor Brinkman
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
Higher ideas affect lower ideas and vice versa. Design is definitely a catalyst for this type of exchange.
Charles Major
BDes Graphic Design, 2013
[stimulates]
Yes! There is an excitable energy with what we do.
Zach Sherwood
BDes Graphic Design, 2013
[…stimulates an interchange between diverse disciplines]
The UIC Design experience puts the student designer in a leadership role, working as a translator between disciplines.
Robert Rettger
BDes Industrial Design, 2013
We exist as translators… in most cases designers are the ones who listen, interpret, and act.
Emily Maehl
BDes Graphic Design, 2013
Through design, I've learned so much about psychology, philosophy, even history, and so much more.
Charles Major
BDes Graphic Design 2013
[diverse]
Design can be expressed in many ways by many people.
Tracy Tamika Bell
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[unifying force and catalyst for change]
As a collective, designers have the ability to change society's everyday experience and to better the standard of living.
Emily Hahn
BDes Graphic Design, 2012
[catalyst for change]
This is exactly what the design world is about, change. It is about making a difference in the world, whether it be how we see it or how we interact with it.
Taylor Brinkman
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[Chicago]
The city is such a tremendous asset. One sentence can't possibly capture it all.
Zach Sherwood
BDes Graphic Design, 2013
Studying at Chicago, among an amazingly diverse population, and at one of the best research universities, opens up the mind of a designer and makes him [or her] extremely aware.
Sean Diller
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[one of the world's great cities]
…with an amazing design legacy.
Oleg Eudokimov
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
No, it is the greatest.
Stephen Denning
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[ideal environment]
This is a place where you can discover your passion and open up to new possibilities, and where you can start your career.
Corey Ercoli
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[designer-citizen]
It is interesting to think of a designer in this way.
Robert Rettger
BDes Industrial Design, 2013
[sharp-eyed]
Designers are keenly perceptive.
Paul Alex Chessare
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[sharp-eyed, proactive, transcendent]
These are key attributes of a good designer: sharp-eyed as always looking at the world; proactive as having the gall to act quickly and effectively on a problem; transcendent enough to address any design need no matter what genre, environment, industry or social group.
Kyle Jackson
BDes Industrial Design, 2013
These are good words to describe the design scene in Chicago.
Emily Maehl
BDes Graphic Design, 2013
[transcendent]
…going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing, exceeding!
Melissa Alicea
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[critical forum]
What is great is that you not only learn from your teachers but you learn new ideas from your peers.
Mie Ikeda
BDes Industrial Design, 2012
[UIC Design provides the impetus and critical forum necessary to amplify talent and quicken intuition, perfect skills and expand the intellect.]
Allow your design experiences to broaden your horizons; allow yourself to become immersed in your studies; allow your personality to shine through in your creative process.
Marisa Isaacs
BDes Graphic Design, 2013