Tanner is founder and executive director of the Design Museum of Chicago, where he leads strategy, partnerships, and special projects. We define design broadly and recognize it surrounds us, deeply influencing our lives in large and small ways.

Through free, short-term exhibitions, engaging public programming, and robust partnerships with other arts, academic, and non-profit organizations, the Design Museum contextualizes and humanizes design's influence in everyday life. Like art, science, and the humanities, design surrounds us. It impacts our worlds deeply, affecting everything from our quality of life to our interactions with our neighbors. Bringing design to a relatable, human level allows us all to better understand the power of design and to utilize that power to fundamentally improve the human condition.

Following are a selection of special projects followed by photographs from exhibitions.