About the Maker
Tanner Woodford is the founder, executive director and board member of the Design Museum of Chicago, where he leads strategy, partnerships and special projects. He received a BS in Design from Arizona State University in 2009, and returned to teach in 2010. More recently, he teaches Design Thinking For Social Change at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and paints large scale typographic murals across public spaces on nights and weekends. In 2020, he was appointed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot to the City of Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council. As a designer, educator and entrepreneur, he has taught, lectured and led workshops on design issues, social change and design history in classrooms and at conferences. He is happy to be scrappy, irrepressibly optimistic and believes design has the capacity to fundamentally improve the human condition.
View Tanner Woodford's Meet the Maker presentation, recorded December 1, 2020
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