Tanner has chosen to support One For One Chicago. Tiny Showcase will donate 15% of our profits from sales of this print edition.

“One For One believes in the fundamental idea that one person, one choice, one step, one chance, one job, one day, one opportunity…can change a life. Our organization is about meeting the needs of the youth that we serve—providing opportunities and connections that have the potential to transform lives, one person at a time.”

Meet Tanner Woodford

Tanner Woodford is founder and executive director of the Design Museum of Chicago, where he leads strategy, partnerships, and special projects. As an artist, he paints optimistic, typographic, and larger-than-life murals. His work has appeared at the WNDR Museum, Soho House Chicago, and is permanently installed at Weber Shandwick in the John Hancock Building. In 2020, Tanner 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. Tanner received a Bachelor of Science 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. He is happy to be scrappy, irrepressibly optimistic, and believes design has the capacity to fundamentally improve the human condition.