5 sections on early lighting. Tallow, Myrtle and Beeswax candles and lanterns. Twisted and rush wicks. Crusie and Betty lamps. Fat, fish, whale oil and paraffin lamps.

Go to "Design at the Design Museum".
50 designers with details of their work. Look at Memphis and Sotsass.

Very wide range of repro products from a wide range of artists from this period.

Detailed history of the Bauhaus with some pictures. Catalogue of a range of small repro products.

Making the Modern World, the Science Museum's new web site to highlight the history of inventions from the 18th. century onwards. For AS and A-level students. Interactive.

US Store selling 1000's of reproductions of classic designs from belts to writing instruments. Searchable by category, designer and price.

Extensive history of Light and Lighting from earliest man to today. Equivalent to 150 pages. Considerable information on Stage lighting, science of light, colour and optics.

Resource centre for the architect/designer Buckminster Fuller who designed the first Geodesic Dome and many more strange ideas, Dymaxion Car, Floating City. If you have never heard of him, have a look.

Online community dedicated to the philosophy and sprit of the Arts and Crafts movement. Check out "Marketplace" for stores selling reproduction products from this period. Three listed below.

Leading design museum in the world with a significant collection of furniture from the Shaker Chair 1876 to Philippe Starck 1999. Others include Le Corbusier 1928, Joseph Hoffmann 1905, Charles Eames, Eileen Gray.

Susie Cooper was one of the UK's leading ceramic artist and designer. She started work in the late 1920's. The Art Deco period. This lovely site covers a wide range of her work.

Clarice Cliff (1999 - 1972) was one of the UK's leading artist and designer of ceramics working through all the major design styles. She was noted for her bold bright hand painted designs and outrageous shapes.

The Pompidou Centre is worth a visit just for the building itself. All the services are on the outside. The collection of Modern Art includes Architecture and Products by the leading artists of the period from 1900.

Wide range of artifacts from7000 BC. (via www.shambles.net/designtechnology/)

Interesting history of IKEA. Started in 1943 with the first UK shop opening in 1987. In students info. Also catalogue covers from 1950 showing how their products changed design.

Pictures of artists associated with design movements, Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky, Picasso. Plus many more artists.

Range of reproduction products designed by Rennie Mackintosh. Jewellery, Clocks. etc

Range of reproduction products designed by Rennie Mackintosh.

Extensive information about the Victorian era. A few examples of their products and photos of Paxton's Great Exhibition of 1851.