Staff Directory
King, Dr. Linda
Department:
Department of Art and Design
School / Functional Area:
School of Creative Arts
Job Title:
Lecturer: Design History/Theory and Material Culture
Contact Telephone Number:
+ 353 1 2394699
Email Address:
linda (dot) king (at) iadt (dot) ie
Academic Qualifications:
2007: PhD, Dublin City University (School of Communications);
1994: MA (by research: Design/Architectural History),
National College of Art and Design;
1990: BA (First Class Honours: Visual Communication/History
of Art and Design, Joint Course), National College of Art and Design.
Area of Expertise:
Design History/Theory with particular emphasis on graphic design and printed ephemera; Irish material culture; the intersection of design, material culture and historiography.
Currently Teaching:
Visual
Communications
Research Interests/Activities:
Research
Interests:
Aer Lingus graphic design and the rhetoric of ‘Nation-building’; the material and visual culture of aviation and tourism; Sean Lemass and intersection of design and Irish industry; the origins of Irish graphic design practice; the poster as cultural text; design and the display of national identity; the emergence of U.S. industrial design practice; Modernism, modernity, modernisation and design; the synthesis of design history, theory and practice.
Previously employed as a graphic designer (Dublin and New York), an arts consultant (Allied Irish Bank) and as a researcher and assistant curator (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute, New York, for exhibition: Henry Dreyfuss, Directing Design). Convened and co-organised On The Edge – Design and Material Culture In and Of Ireland, an international, inter-disciplinary conference at IADT, 2003; co-organised (with Critical Voices/Arts Council) Mein Kampf, a public lecture by Art Spiegelman at Liberty Hall, Dublin, 2003. Currently preparing conference on Sean Lemass and Irish design.
Research Activities:
Professional Practice Interests:
Recent Public Lectures, Conference and Symposia (select):
‘Advertising Ireland: Aer Lingus as de Facto Tourism Authority’ (public lecture), National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin, August 2009.
‘Aviation, Tourism and Advertising: an Irish Experience’ (invited speaker), Parnell Summer School, Wicklow, August 2009.
‘Saints and Shamrocks: Aer Lingus and the Materialisation of Catholic Religiosity’,Catholicism and Public Cultures in Ireland, France, United Kingdom and North America(conference paper), IADT, Dublin, June 2009.
‘Come Fly With Me’: the Visualisation of the Aer Lingus Airhostess’ (public lecture), National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin, May 2009.
‘The “face” of Domestic Aviation: the Aer Lingus Airhostess’ (invited speaker) Post-graduate seminar, Dublin City University, April 2008.
‘‘Fly The Friendly Airline’: Aer Lingus and the Domestication of Aviation Technology’ (conference paper), Love Objects, NCAD, Dublin, February 2008.
‘Nations and Diaspora’ (conference strand chair), Love Objects, NCAD, Dublin, February 2008.
‘‘Ireland Invites You’: Aer Lingus and Tourism Discourse’ (invited speaker, symposium),Come Back to Erin National Museum of Ireland, Castlebar, September 2007.
‘Text as Image/Image as Text: The Proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916’ (public lecture), National Print Museum, Dublin, June 2007.
‘Design, Research, Society, Economy’ (invited conference panel speaker/respondent),Design: What Does It Take?, NCAD, Dublin: April 2006.
‘Pragmatism and Idealism: The Visualisation of ‘Ireland’ in Aer Lingus Advertising, 1950-60’ (conference paper) Tourisms and Histories: Representations and Experiences, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, June 2003.
‘Living in Motion–Architecture and Design for Flexible Living’ (invited panel speaker/respondent), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin: October 2003.
‘Aer Lingus and the Visualisation of Ireland’ (invited speaker), Post-graduate seminar in Cultural Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, November 2003.
‘Guaranteed Irish: Aer Lingus and the Representation of Ireland’ (conference paper),Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Consumption, Method and Memory, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Castlebar: October 2002.
‘Éire as ‘Other’: Aer Lingus and the Visualisation of ‘Ireland’’ (conference paper), Situated Knowledges, University of Aberystwyth, Wales, September 2002.
‘Practice and Theory: Dutch Contributions to Irish Graphic Design’ (conference paper), Mind the Map: 3rd International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, July 2002.
Oranjie and Green: Dutch influences on Irish Graphic Design (invited symposium panel speaker/respondent) Guinness Storehouse, Dublin, November 2001.
‘Tradition and Modernity-U.S. Influences on Aer Lingus Advertising’ (conference paper),Americanisation-Cultural Transfers in the Economic Sphere in the 20c, University of Lille, Roubaix, France, September 2001.
Professional
Practice Interests:
National External Examiner for Design Communications:
Waterford Institute of Technology (2008-);
National External Examiner for Graphic, Fashion and
Ceramic Design:
Limerick Institute of Technology (2002-4). ¿
MA thesis
supervisor for
Design and Digital Media
(Higher Education Authority appointment), 1999—01.
AICA (
Association Internationale des Critiques
d’Art/International Association of Art
): invited member
International Commission for the History of Travel and
Tourism: invited member¿
Design History Society: member
Before joining IADT taught at the National College of
Art and Design, Dublin; Cork Institute of Technology; Griffith College, Dublin;
Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin.
Publications:
Publications - books:
Negotiations:
Modernity, Design and Visual Culture in Ireland, 1922-1992,
Cork University Press (co-editor with Dr.
Elaine Sisson), 2010.
AIB Art, AIB, Dublin, 1995.
Publications – book chapters:
‘(De)Constructing
the Tourist’s Gaze: Dutch Influences on Aer Lingus Tourism Posters, 1951-61’
Negotiations:
Modernity, Design and Visual Culture in Ireland, 1922-1992
, CUP, 2010.
‘Materiality,
Modernity and Identity Construction’ (co-author with Elaine Sisson),
Negotiations:
Modernity, Design and Visual Culture in Ireland, 1922-1992
, CUP, 2010.
‘Tradition and Modernity - the Americanisation of Aer Lingus Graphic Design, 1950-1960’ (chapter), in Kipping and Tiratsoo (eds.), Americanisation in 20th Century Europe: Business, Culture, Politics, Université de Gaulle, Lille, 2002.
Publications -
Journal Articles:
‘ Futurismo 1909-2009: Velocità + Arte + Azione’ and ‘ F.T. Marinetti = Futurism’ (exhibition reviews), Design and Culture, Berg, 2010.
‘Airworld:
Design and Architecture for Air Travel’ (book review),
Design Issues
, MIT Press, 2010.
‘Representations
of British Motoring’ (book review),
Journal of Design History
, Oxford University Press, Volume 22,
Number 1, March 2009, pp. 80-82.
‘Design Week’
(exhibition/event review),
Circa 122
, 2007.
‘Designing Ireland: Kilkenny Design Workshops, 1963-88’ (exhibition review), Circa 115, 2006
(also at:
http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c115/p94_95.shtml
)
‘Josef Muller-Brockmann’ (exhibition review) Circa 110, 2004
(also at:
http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c110/p66_67.shtml
)
‘Short Lived Things: Printed Ephemera as Material Culture’, Circa 103, 2003
(also at:
http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c103/mclk.shtml
).
‘Text as Image –
the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916’ in Sisson (ed)
History,
Technology, Criticism,
Circa/IADT, 2001.
‘Advertising Ireland-Irish graphic design in the 1950s under the patronage of Aer Lingus’, Circa 92, 2000
(also at:
http://www.recirca.com/backissues/c92/aerlingus.shtml
).
Publications - Catalogues/Electronic Media:
‘Be Inspired’, (catalogue foreword), Offset 2009 ,
(
http://www.iloveoffset.com/about.php
),
2009.
‘Offset 2009: Why Dublin, Why Now, Why Not?’, (event preview) Eye Magazine Blog
(
http://blog.eyemagazine.com
), 2009
.
Visual Rhetoric
and the ‘Theatre of Persuasion’: Abbey and Peacock Posters in context (essay),
in
Playboys, Paycocks and Playbills,
National Print Museum, Dublin, 2008.
