October 2022

When we curate an exhibition at MoDiP we not only create a physical display but also an online version too. Part of this activity involves photographing objects that are to be viewed and getting intellectual property rights clearances from the designers and manufacturers involved. Writing to...

MoDiP has several pieces in the collection by Anna Castelli Ferrieri (1918 – 2006), the leading female industrial designer in Italy throughout the 1960s-1980s. She began as an architect, studying at the Politecnico di Milano and becoming its first female graduate in 1943. Her husband, Giulio...

Our current exhibition, Endurance , shows how good design and the right choice of plastics materials can play a part in reducing risk to life and help us to survive in a variety of situations. The exhibition is made up of 11 cases the first of which, in the air , features a single object. Gentex...

There is no better feeling than finding an important nugget of evidence about an object, even if it proves we have got something wrong. Ekco U122 radio, 1950. https://www.modip.ac.uk/artefact/aibdc-002557 Due to its age and colouring we had assumed, incorrectly, that the above EKCO U122 radio was...