Students will critically explore key developments in the creation of modern day surface pattern. The emphasis will be on the role which cultural change, new technologies and commercial demands in particular, have impacted on a range of product based artefacts-ceramics, fashion, interior design and industrial design.

Students will be taught through traditonal lecture and seminar patterns. The lectures will provide basic information and the seminars used for critical discussion and evaluation.

Library, Slide Library, Study Collection and projection facilities

Hiller, Bevis, The Style of the Century, E.P. Dutton, Inc (1992)
Jackson, Lesley, The New Look: Design in the Fifties, Thames and Hudson (1992)
MacCarthy, Fiona, British Design since 1880, Lund Humphries: London (1985)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Pioneers of Modern Design, Pelican (1975)
Harris, Jennifer, Hyde, Sarah, and Smith Greg, 1966 and all That, Design and the Consumer in Britain 1960-1969, Tefoil Design Library (1986)
Woodham, M. Jonathan, Twentieth Century Design, Oxford History of Art, (1997)