2016

MoDiP will now be closed for the Christmas break and will open again 3rd January 2017. We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. AIBDC : 004453 The MoDiP team - Susan, Pam, Louise & Katherine

In 2010, MoDiP was donated a large archive of images relating to a single company. Bakelite Xylonite Ltd, also known as British Xylonite Ltd or BXL, was possibly one of the first British firms to successfully manufacture a plastics material in commercial quantities. The company was established in...

Did you know that all of our past exhibitions are available online? Is that plastic? Skeuomorphs and metaphors in design Plastics are a group of materials with no intrinsic shape or colour, this gives designers free reign to exploit their unashamed ability to imitate other materials. This exhibition...

There are many ways to look at the objects in the MoDiP collection. With this series of posts I want to highlight the interesting views of objects that we may ordinarily miss. These include the underside of an object, the surface pattern, or traces of manufacturing processes. Title: Photon cyber...

MoDiP has the kind of collection that you may think you are very familiar with. We have objects which we all use every day, and some pieces which are more unusual. By looking at this distorted image are you able to guess what the object is? What do you think it could be used for? Post your answer in...

In 2010, MoDiP was donated a large archive of images relating to a single company. Bakelite Xylonite Ltd, also known as British Xylonite Ltd or BXL, was possibly one of the first British firms to successfully manufacture a plastics material in commercial quantities. The company was established in...

Did you know that all of our past exhibitions are available online? Polymorphia The ubiquitous nature of plastics means that they are often taken for granted. Very different plastics are lumped together in the one generic term with their special properties and capabilities often being overlooked by...

There are many ways to look at the objects in the MoDiP collection. With this series of posts I want to highlight the interesting views of objects that we may ordinarily miss. These include the underside of an object, the surface pattern, or traces of manufacturing processes. Title:Roanoid ashtray...

MoDiP has the kind of collection that you may think you are very familiar with. We have objects which we all use every day, and some pieces which are more unusual. By looking at this distorted image are you able to guess what the object is? What do you think it could be used for? Post your answer in...

I have just completed an object condition review of the Plastics Historical Society collection which features some of the very first man-made plastics and has been cared for by MoDiP since 2009. During the course of my project, a selection of brooches caught my eye which was really quite surprising...