Neo-Gothic, Collegiate Gothic, Augustus Pugin (UCC & Cobh), Ruskin, Burges, Westminster Palace. Production of illustrated journals. Nash, Soane, Greek Revival. Expanding industry, culture of industry, new materials and process, beyond the printed page, wallpaper and fabric printing.

Period of transformation, industrial Revolution, development of industry and technology, interventions, the beginning of mass production. Mansions, middle class houses, public buildings, shaker design, early skyscraper. Mass production of Print, development of new professions in print industry. Royal pavilion at Brighton by John Nash, the Great Exhibition, Joseph Paxton and Crystal Palace. Iron and glass, Industrialisation, printing, Morris and his wallpapers, Thonet and the Bentwood chair both mass production and the separation of design from art. Design society and standards, early design reform, industry and its discontents, Henry Cole and the Cole Group, popular graphic images.

William Morris, Ruskin. Germany -Multhusius writing about English housing and why its humanistic. Links to modernism – Voysey & Mackintosh. Netherlands, Berlage. America, Stickley and the Roycrofters, Bradley, Richardson. Frank Lloyd Wright the ‘machine and technology’. Illustration and Type.

Horta, van de Velde, Gaudi, Japanese and Celtic revival influences. Art Noveau in print, Alphonse Mucha, Will Bradley, Margaret Mac Donald Mackintosh.

Joseph Olbrich, Otto Wagner and modern architecture, Joseph Hoffmann, Loos, Tiffany Sullivan, Macintosh, Deutcher Werkbund, Expressionism, graphic design and print, Henry van de Velde.

The production line, pioneers of modernism, Muthesius, Detucher Werkbund, De Stijl, Gerrit Rietveld, Lilly Reich. Revolutionary Graphics, Less is more. Eileen Gray.

The Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Hunt, Mc Kim, Mead & White, public buildings, early skyscrapers, the rise of the Interior Decorator – De Wolfe, Wood McMillen. Saarinen and Cranbrook Academy, Stripped Classicism. Eclecticism for the masses, houses, apt, furniture. Art Deco: interiors, furniture design, textile Design, lighting, ocean liners. Industrial Design: Lowey product design, the introduction of technology, hiding it in furniture, a focus on geometry.

Theo Van Doesburg. Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The machine aesthetic, modernist textiles.

Danish Modern, Scandinavian glass & ceramics, Halsingborg Exhibition, La Ricostruzione, Festival of Britain

Prefabrication and use of steel. War technology, graphics, the birth of branding, war posters. Swiss neutrality & virtue, American Kitsch.

Cold war, Germany rationalism & recovery, Post WWII affluence, consumerism – light bulb theory, post war plastics, post war domestic design, Japan & quality control.

Brand loyalty, disposable design, graphic sign posts, plastic fantastic the modern consumer.

Mid-century design, the birth of interiors and post pop art and design & 70s plastic interiors. Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Eduardo Paolozzi. Back to the past, corporate identities, objects of desire, punk.

Charles Jencks, Ettore Sottsass, Frog, Memphis Design, Portland building. Industrial chic, Alessi, style bibles, virtual desktop, problem solving, de-constructivism.

Refined design, abstract notions of space, light & immateriality. Phillip Stark, Japanese ‘no brand’, IKEA. Form follows fun, deconstructed typography, super star designers, upcycling.

Meaning of miniaturization, technology, contemporary design, development in plastics, shock tactics, new British décor, hands on design.

Design with conscience, sustainability, modern retro, public realm.