and her Studio/lab colleagues have been awarded an IDEA Silver Award for the architectural graphics program designed for Krueck Sexton Architects for the new Spertus Institute.

The IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) program is an international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, environments, packaging and graphics, strategy, research and concepts. Winning entries are announced on BusinessWeek.com and receive coverage in hundreds of print and broadcast media networks around the world. IDSA has been honoring design excellence via the IDEA Awards since 1980.

The concept for the Spertus Institute wayfinding system emerged from "Let there be Light," the mantra of this Jewish educational and cultural institution in Chicago. The key design element is a typographic system that integrates a modern sans-serif font with a traditional serif font. Placed on both sides of the many interior glass surfaces, the two fonts combine to create a single flickering typeface, an allusion to the Spertus symbol, the flame of a candle.