The National CollegeDesign Staff
Ciarán Swan, BDes, MA, Dip Arts Administration
Lecturer, Visual Communication
Ciarán Swan graduated from NCAD with a BDes in Visual Communication in 1990. In 1992 he completed a post-graduate Diploma in Arts Administration in UCD and in 1998 he completed an MA in Design History, specialising in the imagery of Irish political parties between 1977 and 1997.
He is in the process of completing a PhD in Design History relating to the imagery of the state and semi-state organisations in Ireland, North and South from 1920.
Since 1990 he has worked in London as a magazine designer, worked freelance in Dublin for a range of corporate and arts sector clients, and as Communications Manager for a group of companies. He now works directly in the area of political design and identity.
He also lectures in Design History in the NCAD. He has delivered papers based on his research into political and national identity to the Political Studies Association of Ireland, the Irish Association of Art Historians, the Design History Society and various historical groups. He has also published his research in a number of magazines and newspapers including CIRCA magazine.
He retains a strong interest in corporate identity, project management and communications and also works in Archaeological consultancy.
He is a member of the Political Studies Association of Ireland.
