Irish Design Timeline
1900 – 2011
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- 1928
- 1929
- 1930
- 1931
- 1932
- 1933
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- 1935
- 1936
- 1937
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- 1939
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- 1941
- 1942
- 1943
- 1944
- 1945
- 1946
- 1947
- 1948
- 1949
- 1950
- 1951
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- 1953
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- 1955
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
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- 1960
- 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967
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- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
- 1973
- 1974
- 1975
- 1976
- 1977
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 1993
- 1994
- 1995
- 1996
- 1997
- 1998
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- COLLEGE OF MARKETING AND DESIGN, MOUNTJOY SQUARE (LATER PART OF DIT) FOUNDED: 1905
- IVEAGH/GUINNESS TRUST BUILDINGS COMPLETED- BULL ALLEY, 1901-4
- COLLEGE OF COMMERCE, RATHMINES(LATER PART OF DIT) FOUNDED: 1901
- TITANIC FINISHED - HARLAND & WOLFF, BELFAST: 1912
- CRAWFORD MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE OPENS: 1912
- COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOLTON STREET (LATER PART OF DIT) FOUNDED: 1911
- MCCONNELL’S ADVERTISING EST: 1916
- HONAN CHAPEL OPENSCORK: 1916
- FORD EST MANUFACTURING AND ASSEMBLY PLANT, CORK: 1917-84
- CARRIGALINE POTTERY EST CORK: 1928
- Arks Advertising est: 1931
- Arrow Advertising est: 1931
- Newbridge Cutlery est: 1933
- Newbridge Cutlery est: 1933
- Arklow Pottery est: 1934
- Janus Advertising est: 1935
- Walter Gropius Lecture, RIAI: 1936
- O'Kennedy Brindley Advertising est: 1937
- Design Committee est under Lemass: 1937
- Dubarry Shoes est, Galway: 1937
- Grafton Academy Founded: 1938
- Desmond Fitzgerald completes Dublin Airport: 1940
- Sun Advertising est: 1945
- Waterford Crystal re-est by Charles Bacik: 1947
- Bodkin report on the arts in Ireland: 1949
- Industrial Development Authority est: 1949
- Industrial Parades begin: 1950
- Arts Council est: 1951
- first large-scale advertising conference: cork: 1952
- belleek pottery (est. 1887, fermanagh) intros electric kilns: 1952
- An tostal festival est: 1953
- Chester Beatty Library opens: 1954
- John McGuire (MD Brown Thomas) Commissions Textiles Designs from Pat Scott, Turlough Connolly, Le Brocquy, Neville Johnson: 1954
- Signa Design Consultants (Scott, Le Broc) est: 1954
- International Design Exhib (Design Research Unit/Arts Council): 1954
- Donegal Carpets (previously Morton's Rugs) est: 1954
- Youghal Carpets est Cork:1954-84 (bought out by Couristan Carpets)
- John Hinde est: 1956
- Gaeltarra Éireann (ind dev agency for Gaeltacht) est: 1957
- V'Soske Joyce (carpets) est Galway: 1957
- John Hinde sells first postcards, Shannon Airport: 1957
- Institute of Creative Advertising founded: 1958
- ABRAM GAMES ICA LECTURE: 1959
- ICA PUBLISH CAMPAIGN: 1959 - 62
- CAMPAIGN MAGAZINE EST BY ICA: 1959
- PETER OWENS ADVERTISING EST: 1960
- CELTIC CERAMICS, CLARE EST: 1961 (1976 TAKEN OVER BY ROSENTHAL)
- ROBIN WALKER, BORD FÁILTE HEADQUARTERS: 1961
- SCANDINAVIAN REPORT PUBLISHED: 1962
- KILKENNY DESIGN WORKSHOPS FOUNDED: 1963-88
- DESMOND RAE O’KELLY: LIBERTY HALL: 1963
- CERTIFICATE IN ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY EST, DIT: 1963 (LOCATES TO BOLTON ST, 1966)
- JOHN JOHANSEN COMPLETES US EMBASSY, BALLSBRIDGE: 1964
- HELENA RUUTH (KDW) TEXTILE DESIGNS FOR HEATHROW AIRPORT SEATING (W CONRAN): 1966
- IRISH INTERNATIONAL ADVERTISING EST: 1966
- LIAM MCCORMICK COMPLETES BURT CHAPEL, DONEGAL: 1967
- HOLGER STROM DESIGNS IQ LIGHT FOR KDW: 1972
- REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE GALWAY EST: 1972
- IRISH ALUMINIUM/KDW DESIGN STREET LITTER BINS; 1972
- BRAUN EST MANUFACTURING PLANT, CARLOW: 1974-2009
- AVOCA HANDWEAVERS (EST, 1723) BOUGHT BY PRATT FAMILY: 1974
- CORK REGIONAL TECHNICAL COLLEGE EST: 1974
- TELECTRON (TELECOMMUNICATIONS)/KDW DESIGN PARTNERSHIP: 1974-6
- SAM STEPHENSON COMPLETES CENTRAL BANK, 1975
- RONALD TALLON, BANK OF IRELAND HEADQUARTERS, 1975.
- JIM FITZPATRICK DESIGNS JAILBREAK ALBUM COVER FOR THIN LIZZY: 1976
- KDW OPEN DUBLIN STORE: 1976
- STEPHENSON COMPLETES DUBLIN CORPORATION OFFICES: 1976
- INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF SOCIETIES OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN (ICSID), DUBLIN CONGRESS: 1977
- DUN LAOGHAIRE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN EST: 1979
- JEANNE SHEEHY PUBLISHES THE REDISCOVERY OF IRELAND’S PAST – THE CELTIC REVIVAL (BOOK) 1830-1930: 1980
- DELOREAN CARS EST BELFAST: 1981-2
- NCAD VALIDATES FIRST DEGREES IN DESIGN: 1981
- ICOGRADA CONGRESS: 1983
- DESIGN PARTNERS EST WICKLOW: 1985
- SULLIVAN BLUTH EST: 1985-95
- KILKENNY DESIGN (BOOK): 1985
- HUGH ORAM PUBLISHES THE ADVERTISING BOOK: 1986
- IFSC DEVELOPMENT: 1988
- MURIKAMI WOLF SWENSON, EST: 1989-2000.
- GRAPHIC DESIGN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION (GDBA) EST: 1991
- GROUP 91, TEMPLE BAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN LAUNCHED: 1991
- PAUL LARMOUR PUBLISHES THE ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN IRELAND: 1992
- DERMOT MCGUINNE PUBLISHES IRISH TYPE DESIGN: 1992
- DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EST: 1992
- CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN JOINS CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: 1993
- GDBA EST IRISH DESIGN EFFECTIVENESS AWARDS (IDEA): 1994
- AHRENDS BURTON KORALEK (ARCH) EST DUBLIN OFFICE: 1996
- NATIONAL PRINT MUSEUM RECLOCATES TO BEGGARS BUSH: 1996
- NATIONAL IRISH VISUAL ARTS LIBRARY OPENS: 1997
- JOHN ROCHA DESIGNS FOR WATERFORD CRYSTAL: 1997
- DCC, BALLYMUN REGENERATION BEGINS: 1997
- IADT EST: 1997
- NATIONAL MUSEUM, COLLINS BARRACKS OPENS: 1997
- ENTERPRISE IRELAND EST: 1998
- CREATIVE IRELAND (DISCUSSION FORUM) EST: 1999
- OPPORTUNITIES IN DESIGN, ENTERPRISE IRELAND (REPORT): 1999
- GUINNESS STOREHOUSE OPENS: 2000
- MEDIA LAB EUROPE EST: 2000-5
- GERT DUMBAR, DIT/CRICITAL VOICES LECTURE: 2001
- CONOR CLARKE, ORANJE AND GREEN (BOOK): 2002
- JARLATH HAYES DESIGNS EURO COINS DESIGN: 2002
- ROUGHAN AND O’DONOVAN, WILLIAM J DARGAN LUAS BRIDGE: 2002
- JANE NI DHULCHAOINTIGH INVENTS SUGRU: 2003-9
- O’CONNELL ST REGENERATION: 2003-4
- CALATRAVA, JAMES JOYCE BRIDGE: 2003
- ART SPIEGLEMAN, CRITICAL VOICES/IADT LECTURE: 2003
- LIVING IN MOTION (EXHIBITION), IMMA: 2003
- RICHIE, DUBLIN SPIRE COMPLETED; 2003
- GOOGLE DUBLIN: 2004
- MULLER BROCKMANN (EXHIBITION): 2004
- LUAS BEGINS: 2004
- CANDY COLLECTIVE & SWEETTALK EST: 2005
- CROKE PARK FINISHED: 2005
- NDRC EST: 2005
- DESIGNING IRELAND (KDW CATALOGUE AND EXHIBITION): 2005
- LOVE OBJECTS (CONFERENCE), NCAD: 2007
- MEDIA CUBE EST AT IADT: 2007
- HELVETICA (EXHIB) AT IMAGENOW: 2007
- OPEN HOUSE LAUNCHED: 2008
- BENDER EXHIB OPENS, NMI: 2008
- OPEN HOUSE LAUNCHED: 2008
- DCC DUBLIN BIKE SCHEME BEGINS: 2009
- DESIGNING DUBLIN EST: 2009
- CALATRAVA, SAMUEL BECKETT BRIDGE: 2009
- EILEEN GRAY OPENS AT NMI
- FORFÁS (REPORT) SKILLS IN CREATIVITY DESIGN AND INNOVATION: 2009
- IKEA OPENS: 2009
- SEABROOKE EST, OFFSET: 2009
- ATYPI CONFERENCE: 2010
- HOUSE OF WATERFORD CRYSTAL OPENS: 2010
- LIEBSKIND, GRAND CANAL THEATRE OPENS: 2010
- POPULOUS/SCOTT TALLON WALKER DESIGN AVIVA STADIUM: 2010
- MODERNS OPENS IMMA: 2010
- YEAR OF CRAFT: 2011
- IRELAND, DESIGN AND VISUAL CULTURE(BOOK), LINDA KING/ELAINE SISSON, LAUNCH (DUB/NY): 2011
- DESIGN DISCOURSE (LECTURE SERIES OF INTERNATIONAL DESIGNERS/WRITERS), IADT: 2011
- IXDA CONFERENCE: 2012
- EASTER RISING: 1916
- DUBLIN’S FIRST MOTOR TAXIS APPEAR: 1916
- WAR OF 1NDEPENDENCE: 1919-21
- WAR OF INDEPENDENCE: 1919-21
- FREE STATE ESTABLISHED: 1922
- JAMES INGRAM DESIGNS FIRST DEFINITIVE STAMPS: 1922
- JAMES JOYCE PUBLISHES ULYSSES: 1922
- CIVIL WAR: 1922-23
- DOUGLAS HYDE LAUNCHES FIRST RADIO STATION, 2RN: 1926
- FIRST FREE STATE COINS: 1928
- ARDNACRUSHA COMPLETED: 1929
- ECONOMIC WAR WITH BRITAIN: 1932-8
- EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS: 1932
- SAORSTÁT ÉIREANN OFFICIAL HANDBOOK, PUB: 1932
- AER LINGUS ESTABLISHED: 1936
- BUNREACHT NA HÉIREANN (IRISH CONSTITUTION): 1937
- RTÉ RADIO LAUNCHED: 1937
- CÓRAS IOMPAIR ÉIREANN (CIÉ) EST: 1945
- FIRST TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHTS (TWA, PANAM) INTO RINEANNA, CO CLARE: 1945
- RURAL ELECTRIFICATION SCHEME BEGINS: 1946
- SHANNON AIRPORT OPENS: 1947
- BRENDAN O’REGAN INVENTS DUTY FREE CONCEPT, SHANNON AIRPORT: 1947
- IRISH REPUBLIC EST: 1949
- JOHN FORD’S THE QUIET MAN: 1952
- IRELAND OF THE WELCOMES (TOURISM MAGAZINE) LAUNCHED BY BORD FAILTE: 1952
- CORAS TRACHTALA (EXPORT BOARD) EST: 1952
- WORST EMIGRATION STATS IN HISTORY OF THE STATE: 1957
- AER LINGUS TRANSATLANTIC ROUTE EST, 1958
- ARDMORE STUDIOS OPEN, WICKLOW: 1958
- T.K. WHITAKER PUB PROGRAMME FOR ECONOMIC EXPANSION: 1958
- LEMASS BECOMES TAOISEACH: 1959-67
- ULSTER TELEVISION LAUNCHED: 1959
- IRELAND APPLIES FOR EEC MEMBERSHIP: 1961
- RTÉ ESTABLISHED (NEW YEAR’S EVE): 1961
- VATICAN TWO: 1962-5
- JFK VISITS: 1963
- FREE SECONDARY EDUCATION INTRO: 1967
- IRELAND JOINS THE EEC: 1973
- ROSC ESTABLISHED: 1974
- POPE JOHN PAUL II VISITS: 1979
- SENSE OF IRELAND EXHIBITION AND CATALOGUE: 1980
- U2’S FIRST ALBUM BOY: 1980
- DART LAUNCHED: 1984
- RYANAIR FOUNDED: 1985
- DUBLIN MILLENNIUM: 1988
- LIMERICK UNIVERSITY EST: 1989
- DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY EST: 1989
- GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT: 1998
- MUSEUM OF COUNTRY LIFE OPENS TURLOUGH PARK, CO. MAYO: 2001
- NAMA EST: 2009
- CIST FOUNDED: 2009
- GUINNESS OPENS BREWERY AT PARK ROYAL, LONDON: 1932-2005
- MICHAEL SCOTT DESIGNS SHAMROCK PAVILLION FOR NYWF: 1939
- CLANCY BROTHERS AND TOMMY MAKEM APPEAR ON ED SULLIVAN SHOW IN ARAN SWEATERS: 1961
- LEMASS ON COVER OF TIME: 1963
- KDW US PROMOTIONS: 1967-72
- SAM STEPHENSON DESIGNS IRISH PAVILLION FOR OSAKA EXPO, 1970
- A SENSE OF IRELAND EXHIBITION(TRAVELING), KDW: 1980
- KDW OPEN LONDON STORE: 1986
- ARTHUR GIBNEY DESIGNS IRISH PAVILLION, SEVILLE: 1992 (RIAI WIN: 1993)
- MURRAY O'LAOIRE DESIGN IRISH PAVILLION, EXPO, HANOVER: 2000
- NIALL MELLON TRUST EST: 2002
- SAM RUSSELL, JOINS DESIGN WITHOUT BORDERS: 2008
- GENA HERATY, EST HAITI FUND: 2010
- OPW DESIGN IRISH PAVILLION, SHANGHAI, EXPO: 2010
- IMAGINE IRELAND, CULTURAL FESTIVAL, NY: 2011
- HARRY CLARKE ILLUSTRATES FAIRY TALES BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: 1916
- HARRY CLARKE ILLUSTRATES TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION BY EDGAR ALLEN POE: 1919 (1923 REPRINT)
- HARRY CLARKE ILLUSTRATES FAUST BY GOETHE: 1925
- HERBERT SIMMS HOUSING FOR DUBLIN CORPORATION: 1934-38
- WATERFORD STANLEY EST: 1934
- COLM O’LOCHLAIN DESIGNS COLMCILLE TYPEFACE: 1936
- GUUS MELAI, DUTCH (GRAPHIC DESIGNER) STARTS AT SUN ADVERTISING: 1951-6
- LIAM MILLER FOUNDS DOLMEN PRESS, 1951
- JAN DE FOUW, DUTCH (GRAPHIC DESIGNER) ARRIVES: 1951
- IRENE GILBERT, ESTABLISHES FASHION COMPANY 1951-68
- SYBIL CONNOLLY EST COMPANY: 1952
- MICHAEL SCOTT COMPLETES BUSARAS: 1953
- PIET SLUIS, DUTCH (GRAPHIC DESIGNER) ARRIVES: 1956
- COR KLASSEN, DUTCH (GRAPHIC DESIGNER) ARRIVES AT O’KENNEDY BRINDLEY: 1956
- IB JORGENSON EST COMPANY: 1957-94
- MICHAEL SCOTT AND PARTNERS EST: 1958
- KEVIN ROCHE JOHN DINKELOO ASSOCIATES EST: 1966
- DAMIEN HARRINGTON EST GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDIO AT KDW: 1968
- TIMONEY TECHNOLOGY EST: DUBLIN, 1968
- DAMIEN HARRINGTON (KDW DESIGNS P+T LOGO: 1969)
- ELIZABETH FITZSIMONS (KDW) DES EIRBUS LOGO: 1972
- HARRINGTON (KDW) DES DAIRY COUNCIL LOGO: 1973
- HARRINGTON (KDW) OPW LOGO: 1973
- SCOTT TALLON WALKER EST; 1975
- DE BLACAM & MEAGHER EST: 1976
- PETER RICE (ENGINEER) EST RFR WITH IAN RICHIE: 1977
- PETER DRABINETT (KDW) DESIGNS TELECOM EIREANN LOGO: 1981
- BILL BOLGER, AN POST LOGO: 1982 (IMPLEMENTATION BY DABINETT 1983)
- JOHN ROCHA EST FIRST LABEL CHINATOWN: 1983-88
- DESIGN FACTORY EST: 1983
- DESIGNWORKS EST: 1983
- JOSIE MCAVIN, OSCAR FOR OUT OF AFRICA: 1986
- MARTELLO MEDIA EST: 1986
- LOUISE KENNEDY, FIRST COLLECTION: 1990
- LANGUAGE EST: 1990
- DOLMEN DESIGN EST: 1991
- PHILIP KENNY EST COMPANY LIMERICK: 1991
- IDENTITY BUSINESS EST: 1991 (NOW BRAND UNION)
- DYNAMO EST: 1992
- REDDOG, EST: 1993
- X COMMUNICATIONS EST: 1994
- PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS CO. EST: 1995
- HAVOC EST: 1998
- FRONTEND EST: 1998
- CARTON LEVERT EST: 1998
- ATELIER DAVID SMITH EST: 1999
- ZINC EST: 2000
- MARCUS NOTLEY, WATERFORD: 2001
- HENEGHAN PENG EST DUBLIN: 2001
- RUARI ROBINSON OSCAR NOMINATION: 2002
- BROWN BAG, OSCAR NOMINATIONS: 2002, 2010
- RED&GREY DESIGN EST: 2003
- DETAIL EST: 2004
- JOAN BERGIN, EMMYS: 2007, 2008, 2010
- CONSOLATA BOYLE, OSCAR NOMINATION: 2007; EMMY 2004
- BRIAN WILLIAMS, DESIGNS INDENTS TG4: 2007
- GRAFTON ARCHITECTS, WIN FIRST WORLD BUILDING OF THE YEAR AT INAUGURAL WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL AWARDS, LUIGI BOCCONI UNIVERSITY, MILAN: 2008
- CARTOON SALOON, KILKENNY, OSCAR NOMINATION, THE SECRET OF KELLS: 2009
- GEOGUIDES DESIGN VISIT DUBLIN IPHONE APP: 2009
- TOM CONROY/COLMAN CORISH, EMMY: 2010
- MASER, THEY ARE US PROJECT: 2010
- RORY’S STORY CUBES, EDUCATIONAL TOY: 2010
- AMP VISUAL EST: 2010
- DAVID SMITH, AGI 2010
- LEGIBLE DUBLIN, WAYFINDING SYSTEM: 2011
- EILEEN GRAY DESIGNS ST TROPEZ RUG IN DONEGAL TWEED: 1925
- EILEEN GRAY COMPLETES E1027 IN FRANCE: 1929
- STELLA STEYN (ARTIST) ENROLLS IN BAUHAUS: 1931
- PETER RICE (ENGINEER) JOINS OVE ARUP: 1956
- PETER RICE (ENGINEER) SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: 1963
- PETER RICE (ENGINEER) EST RFR IN PARIS: 1982
- BRIAN CRONIN, EMIGRATES TO THE US: 1986
- ALAN ABOUD EST ABOUD SODANO: 1989
- PETER O’BRIEN JOINS CHLOE, 1983-7; JOINS PARFUMS ROCHAS 1989-2003
- PHILIP TREACY ESTABLISHES COMPANY: 1990
- ORLA KIELY ESTABLISHES COMPANY: 1993
- DERMOT POWER (CONCEPT DESIGNER) FOR STAR WARS: 1999
- BRIAN KEANEY EST TONFISK, FINLAND: 1999
- PONY LONDON (NIALL SWEENEY): 2001
- PAUL DONNELLON/ VOODOODOG: 2003
- PAURIC SWEENEY BAGS EST FLORENCE: 2004
- ANTHONY DUNNE, BECOMES PROF, INTERACTION DESIGN, RCA: 2006
- KEVIN FINN EST FINN CREATIVE, AUSTRALIA: 2007
- DEAN CAFFREY, DESIGNS AUDI Q5: 2008
- GREGOR TIMLIN JOINS HELEN HAMLYN CENTER: 2008
- STONE TWINS MADE HEADS OF DEPT, DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN: 2008
- UNA BURKE DESIGNS COSTUMES FOR LADY GAGA: 2009
- RICHIE BANEHAM, OSCAR: 2010
- JOHNNY KELLY, TITLE SEQUENCES FOR HET KLOKHUIS, HOLLAND:2010
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