Mary Ann Bolger lecturers in design history and theory at Dublin Institute of Technology. She is a graduate of the joint M.A. in History of Design at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and is currently pursuing postgraduate research at the RCA on the topic of post-war Irish graphic design. With her DIT colleague, Clare Bell, Mary Ann represents Ireland as country delegate of the Association Internationale Typographique. Together they are organising the 2010 annual ATypI conference, hosted by DIT. As well as ATypI, Mary Ann is a member of the Institute of Designers in Ireland, the Institute of Creative Advertising and Design and the Design History Society.
She has an unfashionable fondness for the typeface American Uncial.
Research interests include typography, visual culture and the material culture of religion on which topics she lectures widely at home and internationally.
Recent publications include the monograph Design Factory: On the Edge of Europe. (Dublin: Lilliput & Amsterdam: BIS, 2009). Forthcoming publications include a chapter in Negotiations: modernity, design and visual culture in Ireland, 1922-1992, edited by Elaine Sisson and Linda King (Cork University Press, 2010).
