Dr Ciarán Swan
Part-time Lecturer in History of Art and Design, NCAD
swanc@ncad.ie
Ciarán Swan graduated from NCAD 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. In 2005 he completed a PhD in Design History on the imagery of the state and semi-state organisations in Ireland, North and South from 1920. 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. More recently he has worked as a studio tutor in Visual Communications in NCAD but he currently works directly in the area of political design and identity in Dáil Éireann. Ciarán is also a member of the curatorial committee of the National Print Museum.