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Did you know that you can book objects out for use in your AUB studio space? Book an appointment by email, telephone, or come and see us in person to discuss the options. BA (Hons) Graphic Students using the MoDiP collection Louise Dennis, (Assistant Curator)

Yesterday saw a University wide 1960s celebration in honour of the Mister Sixties exhibition on display in The Gallery . Some students and members of staff dressed up appropriately for the occasion and a special menu was served in the Arts Bar. As part of the activities MoDiP joined forces with The...

Forty-two years ago today pop came to the world of typewriters. The Valentine typewriter was launched on 14 February 1969. It was designed by the late Italian architect and designer, Ettore Sottsass, with the British designer, Perry Ellis, for the Italian firm, Olivetti. Most often manufactured in...

Did you know you can follow us on twitter ? Louise Dennis (Assistant Curator)

References to plastics in the music business say a lot. The Beatles' Polythene Pam was a Liverpool scrubber and the kind of girl who makes the News of the World; Frank Zappa was sure that 'love will never be a product of Plasticity'; and Poly Styrene was a disaffected punk who sung about 'the day...

MoDiP has been awarded a grant from the Museums Association as part of their Effective Collections campaign. The grant has paid for a coach to help us make links with other museums and find other ways to make an underused collection more widely accessible. With permission from the Worshipful Company...

Our current exhibition Nature’s Plastic: Artefacts from the collection of the Worshipful Company of Horners has proved to be a very popular subject from drawing practice. We have had a number of students come in with their sketch books to draw items on display. The most popular piece has been the...

MoDiP has been working with AUB Fine Art students this term in a project entitled Time and Space Articulation. The project has a number of strands, one of which is to look at museums and private collections. A number of students have been inspired by MoDiP’s collection and have come in and spoken to...

We’re planning an exhibition: You can do it with plastics which will look at how the properties of plastics that distinguish them from other materials have influenced design. The exhibition will open in May. The brief is simple: that some kind of plastic is crucial to the work. By plastic we mean...

Over the last 18 months MoDiP has been a partner in the JISC funded Look-Here! Project managed by VADS . The last project meeting was hosted by MoDiP and included a workshop on digital learning packages and writing for the web. As MoDiP is embarking on it own digital revolution we all found the...