Contextual studies - Lautrec

Last year we had a unit called contextual studies which is an essay based unit, my question last year was along the lines of "How is current technology effecting design and where do you, think based upon current breakthroughs, future technologies will take design".

This year we have to create our own questions, however i plan on creating a similar question, however this years is question is more specific in terms of design area i.e. typography, illustration etc.

Before i create my question, we are going to be given a few presentations, i missed the first presentation through illness, although it was the same essay writing presentation we had last year. The presentation i sat through today was about the "father" of graphic design, Taulouse Lautrec, he was one of the first to successfully combine type and illustration to convey a message.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec, along with Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gaugain, are among the most well-known painters of the Post impressionist period. 

Although i don't have the original presentation, i do have link to another presentation which i subsequently watched afterward the original presentation. 

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdZ1U9D0mFo ) Although the presentation comes from an art perspective.

These presentations/the works and techniques of Lautrec has inspired me to use different techniques to produce his works.