Obituaries
Chicago, served as a faculty member at the Institute of Design from 1966 to 2011, faculty emeritus, and director of ID from 1982 to 1986. Early in his career he was product designer for Unimark International and then co-founded the Chicago design firms Source, Inc. and Design Planning Group, contributing products to Knoll International and Steelcase, among other firms. The recipient of numerous design awards, Fahnstrom has some of his early work in packaging design as part of the permanent collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2017 the Dale Fahnstrom Endowed Teaching Fellowship was established at ID by co-founders of the design consultancy Gravity Tank, who were also Fahnstrom’s former students.
