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- Plastics in the Home
- Object name(s):
- education; presentation script
- Brief description:
- A set of typed lecture notes on four pages, written by A.H.Woodfull, entitled 'Plastics in the Home' , intended to be delivered on January 21st 1953. Topics included are: the rise of plastics materials in the home, in particular 1945 onwards (post WWII)
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- archival material
- Colour:
- black and white print
- Dimension:
- height 329 mm
- Dimension:
- width 204 mm
- Material:
- paper
- Object name:
- education; presentation script
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 008203.5
- Object production date:
- 1953
- Object production person:
- Woodfull, Albert Henry
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- UK
- Technique:
- typed
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- Title:
- The Designer and Plastics
- Object name(s):
- education; presentation script
- Brief description:
- A set of typed lecture notes on 22 pages, written by A.H.Woodfull, entitled 'The Designer and Plastics', and dated 1948. Topics covered include: an historical overview of the role of the designer through history
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- archival material
- Colour:
- black and white print
- Colour:
- red
- Dimension:
- height 328 mm
- Dimension:
- width 200 mm
- Material:
- paper
- Object name:
- education; presentation script
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 008203.3
- Object production date:
- 1948
- Object production person:
- Woodfull, Albert Henry
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- UK
- Technique:
- typed
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/6387792e-7256-38c1-9b37-4512c6ee3699
Use licence for this record: CC BY
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- Title:
- Plastic - and proud of it
- Object name(s):
- education; presentation script
- Brief description:
- A set of typed lecture notes on five pages, written by A.H. Woodfull, delivered to Brimingham Chamber of Commerce (undated) entitled 'Plastic - and proud of it : A.H.Woodfull, F.S.I.A. Manager of the Product Design Unit of British Industrial Plastics, suggests some reasons for the apprent 'inferiority complex' of plastics.' Topics covered include: the early days of the use of plastics for consumer products
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- archival material
- Colour:
- black and white print
- Dimension:
- height 328 mm
- Dimension:
- width 202 mm
- Material:
- paper
- Object name:
- education; presentation script
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 008203.1
- Object production person:
- Woodfull, Albert Henry
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- UK
- Technique:
- typed
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/890ee189-e8a5-377d-9386-bef6b4bb7861
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- Title:
- Plastics Handbook for Product Engineers
- Object name(s):
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Brief description:
- Sasso, J., 1946. Plastics Handbook for Product Engineers. McGraw-Hill Book Company. This book covers the following: 1. Chemistry of Plastics - 2. Materials and Properties - 3. Processing - 4. Machining and Finishing Plastics Parts - 5. Recent Developments and Techniques - 6. Fundamental Design Considerations - 7. Design Details - 8. Common Faults, Causes, and Remedies in Moulded Plastic Parts - 9. Synthetic Rubber like Materials - 10. Synthetic Rubbers in Engineering Design - 11. Butyl Rubber - 12. Butadiene-acrylonitrile Rubbers - 13. GR-S Synthetic Elastomers - 14. Neoprene Rubber - 15. Thiokol Polysulfide Synthetic Rubbers
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0151
- Object production date:
- 1946
- Object production organisation:
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Sasso, John
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- USA
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- Title:
- Smile Plastics information sheet
- Object name(s):
- product; packaging
- Brief description:
- Two paper information sheets from Smile Plastics Ltd, one concerning the machining and moulding of their recycled materials, the other describing the materials, how they are made and prices. Smile Plastics Ltd is a company that designs and manufactures plastics sheet materials out of waste. They started making a range of recycled plastic bottles in 1994.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- plastics samples and industry
- Colour:
- cream
- Dimension:
- length 295 mm
- Dimension:
- width 208 mm
- Material:
- paper
- Object name:
- product; packaging
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 008810.11
- Object production organisation:
- Smile Plastics
- Organisation's association:
- Manufacturer
- Object production place:
- UK
- Technique:
- printed
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- Title:
- Abstract design
- Object name(s):
- Design
- Brief description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Associated concept:
- Interiors
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 34
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25
- Material:
- laminated plastic
- Object name:
- Design
- Object number:
- E.2499-1987
- Object production date:
- mid 20th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1925-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1975-12-31
- Object production person:
- NICHOLSON, Roger
- Person's association:
- maker
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Place note:
- Nicholson was based in England at this time
- Object status:
- Design
- Physical description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Style:
- mid 20th century
- Technique:
- drawn
- Technique:
- laminated
- Technique:
- Laminated plastic.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/e50b02b0-5bf1-3808-92c1-f0a177c15586
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Abstract design
- Object name(s):
- Design
- Brief description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Associated concept:
- Interiors
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 34
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25
- Material:
- laminated plastic
- Object name:
- Design
- Object number:
- E.2494-1987
- Object production date:
- mid 20th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1925-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1975-12-31
- Object production person:
- NICHOLSON, Roger
- Person's association:
- maker
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Place note:
- Nicholson was based in England at this time
- Object status:
- Design
- Physical description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Style:
- mid 20th century
- Technique:
- drawn
- Technique:
- laminated
- Technique:
- Laminated plastic.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2788e637-2d77-333f-919a-6b148d6e8ced
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Abstract design
- Object name(s):
- Design
- Brief description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Associated concept:
- Interiors
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 34
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25
- Material:
- laminated plastic
- Object name:
- Design
- Object number:
- E.2491-1987
- Object production date:
- mid 20th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1925-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1975-12-31
- Object production person:
- NICHOLSON, Roger
- Person's association:
- maker
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Place note:
- Nicholson was based in England at this time
- Object status:
- Design
- Physical description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Style:
- mid 20th century
- Technique:
- drawn
- Technique:
- laminated
- Technique:
- Laminated plastic.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/aac1df8b-3f38-323a-9bac-de4c521c8b41
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Abstract design
- Object name(s):
- Design
- Brief description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Associated concept:
- Interiors
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 34
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25
- Material:
- laminated plastic
- Object name:
- Design
- Object number:
- E.2496-1987
- Object production date:
- mid 20th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1925-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1975-12-31
- Object production person:
- NICHOLSON, Roger
- Person's association:
- maker
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Place note:
- Nicholson was based in England at this time
- Object status:
- Design
- Physical description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Style:
- mid 20th century
- Technique:
- drawn
- Technique:
- laminated
- Technique:
- Laminated plastic.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ae7f9b1d-27fb-3cb9-9e28-cdbdba8af594
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Abstract design
- Object name(s):
- Design
- Brief description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Designs
- Associated concept:
- Interiors
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 34
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 25
- Material:
- laminated plastic
- Object name:
- Design
- Object number:
- E.2495-1987
- Object production date:
- mid 20th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1925-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1975-12-31
- Object production person:
- NICHOLSON, Roger
- Person's association:
- maker
- Object production place:
- England
- Place association:
- made
- Place note:
- Nicholson was based in England at this time
- Object status:
- Design
- Physical description:
- Sheet from a ring binder bound in blue cloth containing 10 sheets of Warerite laminated plastic veneer decorated with abstract designs. Lettered in Indian ink on label stuck inside front cover 'A selection of Designs by Roger Nicholson for Warerite Laminated plastic' Inscribed in pencil 7 N C 10.
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Style:
- mid 20th century
- Technique:
- drawn
- Technique:
- laminated
- Technique:
- Laminated plastic.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/03639972-3b08-3ce4-8da4-ff47689a0a2f
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- Title:
- Lecturer in Plastics and Design, Royal College of Art - 1978
- Object name(s):
- photograph; photograph
- Brief description:
- A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Lecturer in Plastics and Design, Royal College of Art - 1978" taken by Brian Griffin, in 1976. Possibly from the Impressions Gallery exhibition "Portraits of Our Time", shown in 1979
- Collection:
- Science Museum Group
- Associated concept:
- photograph
- Credit line:
- Impressions Gallery Archive at the National Science and Media Museum
- Material:
- paper (fibre product)
- Object name:
- photograph; photograph
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1978
- Date - latest:
- 1978
- Object production date:
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1978
- Date - latest:
- 1978
- Object production person:
- Griffin, Brian
- Other number:
- 2015-5024/799
- Other number type:
- accession number
- Other number:
- E2013.22.800
- Other number type:
- previous number
- Responsible department/section:
- NSMM - Photographs
- Right holder:
- Griffin, Brian
- Right type:
- Copyright
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Use licence for this record: CC BY
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- Title:
- Disposable Cutlery
- Object name(s):
- Disposable cutlery
- Brief description:
- Disposable cutlery, styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer. Three piece cutlery set, the fork and spoon handles, grooved with ridged edges, the bowls dipped, the spoon, oval, the fork with three prongs. The knife handle a straight rod terminating with a triangular blade.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Design Council Award Winner
- Associated concept:
- Plastic
- Associated concept:
- Product design
- Associated concept:
- Tableware & cutlery
- Credit line:
- Gift of the Manufacturer
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Material:
- styrene-acrylonitrile
- Object history note:
- Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1970.
Duke of Edinburgh Prize for Elegant Design, 1968
- Object name:
- Disposable cutlery
- Object number:
- CIRC.335 to B-1970
- Object production date:
- 1968
- Date - association:
- designed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1968-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1968-12-31
- Object production date:
- 1970
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1970-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1970-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- EKCO
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturer
- Object production person:
- David Harman Powell
- Person's association:
- designers
- Object production place:
- Southend-on-Sea (unitary authority)
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Disposable cutlery, styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer. Three piece cutlery set, the fork and spoon handles, grooved with ridged edges, the bowls dipped, the spoon, oval, the fork with three prongs. The knife handle a straight rod terminating with a triangular blade.
- Reproduction number:
- 2019MA2798
- Responsible department/section:
- MET
- Technique:
- moulding
- Technique:
- styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- EKCO (from Eric Kirkham Cole Limited) was a British electronics company producing radio and television sets from 1924 until 1960. Expanding into plastic production for its own use, Ekco Plastics produced both radio cases and later domestic plastic products; the plastics company became Lin Pac Mouldings Ltd.
David Harman Powell was born in 1931 and educated at Southend School of Art 1946-9 where he won a travel scholarship enabling him to tour Europe, particularly Sweden, Denmark and Italy.
Industrial drawing experience at Ekco Ltd led to a permanent post in the design office under 'Jake' White and then, from 1953-60, at British Industrial Plastics under 'Woody' Woodfull. Powell returned to Ekco in 1960 to take over from Martyn Rowlands as chief designer of their Plastics Division.
Powell won the 1955 Horners' design award for an all-plastics greenhouse, the 1968 Design Council's Duke of Edinburgh Award for Elegant Design with the Ekco Nova range of tableware and the 1970 Council of Industrial Design Award for Ekco Nova flatware.
Powell's innovative and stylish award winning plastic objects played a major part in the acceptance of the material as a serious alternative to traditional materials, and in many cases as the most suitable material for new products.
From: Museum of Design in Plastics
- Text reason:
- Summary description
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- Title:
- Plastics Molds: Design, Construction, Use
- Object name(s):
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Brief description:
- Thayer, G.B., 1946. Plastics Molds: Design, Construction, Use, 2nd ed. Huebner Publications, Cleveland. This book covers the following: Introduction - Preface to the third edition - Acknowledgements to the third edition - I Introduction: definition, requirements, types, factors - II Suggestions on design procedure - III Practical points in mold design and construction - General mold design - Compression mold design - Injection mold design - For the tool maker - For the molding operator - For the estimator - For the finisher - For the inspector - IV Materials for plastic molds - General purpose low carbon steels - Hobbing steels - Water hardening steels - Carburizing steels - High alloy tool steels - Stainless steels - Oil hardening tool steels - Air hardening tool steels - Stainless steels - Hot rolled and cold Finished steels - Heat treating equipment - nonferrous metals for molds, by Wm. J. Dewer - Beryllium alloys and their applications, by N. W. Bass - A classification of plastics according to their molding characteristics - Rockwell hardness tests on plastics, by J. Robert Tucker - V Types of molds for compression molding - Positive type mold - Semi-positive type mold - Flash type mold - VI The design of a simple compression type mold - VII The Design of a split cavity compression type mold - Design of a cooling fixture for the same mold - VIII The design of a side-opening compression mold, by F.G. Woodiwiss - A loading fixture for a compression mold - IX Design of a transfer type mold - Jet molding - X The design of a simple injection type mold - An alternate design for a typical ejector pin mold, by Thomas J. Lester - XI The design of a stripper-plate injection mold - An alternate design for a stripper type mold - by Thomas J. Lester - XII The design of a loose-bar injection mold - XIII An injection mold for a plastics lens, by Carl H. Whitlock - XIV Loading the injection mold, by Don F. Hoffman - XV Ejector systems for injection molds - Direct systems, by Don F. Hoffman - Indirect systems, by Don F. Hoffman - The use of an Air Cylinder for deep cavity ejection, by Gordon B. Thayer - Finger core pulls in mold design, by Thomas J. Lester - XVI Mold building methods and equipment - XVII Methods of mold sinking - Hobbing - Heat treatment for hobbing - Milling - The rotary head method for milling mold cavities, by D. V. Stevens - Duplicating - Gorton Duplicators - The monarch shapemaster
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0163
- Object production date:
- 1946
- Object production organisation:
- Huebner Publications
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Thayer, Gordon B.
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- USA
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/20dac81c-493e-3b89-b79b-f6f1b60ba123
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- Title:
- Designing in Plastics
- Object name(s):
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Brief description:
- Designing in Plastics, 1970. Council of Industrial Design. This book covers the following: Foreword - The modern role of plastics - What plastics are and where they come from - Converting plastics - Plastics processes - Designing in plastics - Case history basic 1: Ekco cutlery - Case history aesthetics 1: Arkana 'Mushroom' furniture - Case history aesthetics 2: Holpak margarine tub - Case history aesthetics 3: Globoot footwear - Case history aesthetics 4: Melaware 'Manoy' tableware - Case history mechanics 1: Air control installations exhauster fan - Case history mechanics 2: Fothergill and Harvey heddle frame - Case history mechanics 3: BXL copper laminate circuits - Case history mechanics 4: Lucas automobile switch control - Case history economics 1: Thermo Plastics Ltd Helix pipe - Case history economics 2: Molyneux 'Dacatie' framing system - Case history economics 3: Metal Box Co coin tubes - Case history economics 4: Ransome Hoffmann Pollard ball bearing cage - Case history basic 2: IMI Developments 'Opella' taps - The future outlook for plastics - Credits.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0362
- Object production date:
- 1970
- Object production organisation:
- Council of Industrial Design
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production place:
- UK
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/29c321fb-d0f9-372d-ab71-f8d0539bb8e8
Use licence for this record: CC BY
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- Title:
- Scales design by Kwong-Chi Chan
- Object name(s):
- kitchenware; measuring equipment
- Brief description:
- Pair of pale yellow plastic scales with an egg shaped body, designed by Kwong-Chi Chan, Hong Kong in 1992.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- house and garden
- Colour:
- yellow
- Material:
- plastic
- Object name:
- kitchenware; measuring equipment
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 001319
- Object production date:
- 1998
- Object production person:
- Kwong-Chi, Chan
- Person's association:
- Designer
- Object production place:
- Hong Kong
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- Title:
- Thermo-Plastics serving tongs
- Object name(s):
- tableware; serving utensil
- Brief description:
- A pair of serving tongs made from colourless thermoformed acrylic by Thermo-Plastics Ltd, circa 1960s. These tongs have an asymmetrical design in that one end is cut off and flattened for scooping up an item of food and the other end terminates in a point.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- house and garden
- Colour:
- colourless
- Dimension:
- width 85 mm
- Dimension:
- length 260 mm
- Dimension:
- depth 48 mm
- Material:
- plastic
- Material:
- PMMA
- Material:
- polymethyl methacrylate
- Material:
- acrylic
- Object name:
- tableware; serving utensil
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 009505
- Object production organisation:
- Thermo-Plastics
- Organisation's association:
- Manufacturer
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Person's association:
- Designer
- Object production place:
- UK
- Technique:
- thermoformed
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- Title:
- Cylindrical table lamp with ethnic design
- Object name(s):
- lighting; lamp
- Brief description:
- Table lamp, cylindrical shade with ethnic design on 4 short tubular legs. 1965.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- house and garden
- Colour:
- cream
- Colour:
- brown
- Colour:
- black
- Dimension:
- height 520 mm
- Dimension:
- diameter 230 mm
- Material:
- plastic
- Material:
- fibre glass
- Material:
- fibre-reinforced plastic
- Material:
- FRP
- Material:
- glass-reinforced plastic
- Material:
- GRP
- Material:
- metal
- Object name:
- lighting; lamp
- Object number:
- AIBDC : 003484
- Object production date:
- 1965
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- Title:
- From Project to Product 2: Plastic and Design
- Object name(s):
- reference book; plastics in general
- Brief description:
- Morello, A., Castelli Ferrieri, A., 1988. From Project to Product 2: Plastic and Design. Arcadia Edizioni, Milan. This book covers the following: Material culture and the culture of materials by Augusto Morello - Design and engineering - Plastic, and plastic materials - Design, techniques and polymers - The Kartell 'case' - Design and reality at Kartell by Anna Castelli Ferrieri - Introduction by the author - The pre-industrial phase: New ideas for automotive accessories - Creative applications of the tire technology - The years of experimental enthusiasm: home plastic - Containers made of polythene, the first step - The exploitation of the insulating effect - The reinvention of kitchen and cleaning utensils - From utensil to object, from kitchen to table - Plastic and technology: Laboratory products - The substitution of materials - Disposable products, the design of a raw material - Instruments rethought - Lighting and plastic materials: A hipothesis to be tested - The new materials suited for lighting - The lamps of sixties: Many inventions, some doubts - The artist's sketch - From lamp to system - The development of the habitat: Plastic to live with - The little chair that was half toy and half furnishing - Plastic, chair, a design and manufacturing challenge - Creative experimentation with polyurethane, an eclectic raw material - Stability and cost-containment: Two objectives for tabletops - Making beds with unusual structures: Boats and centipedes - Snap-together modulars, a true pret-a-porter of furnishing - Cylindrical containers: Perfect construction and nothing else - A case of a completely new typology - New approaches to traditional complementary items of furniture - Teaching, play, functionality, for furnishing at school - The designers - A brief history - Technological development - Prizes and awards for industrial design - Index of names
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; plastics in general
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0370
- Object production date:
- 1988
- Object production organisation:
- Arcadia Edizioni
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Morello, Augusto
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production person:
- Castelli Ferrieri, Anna
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- Italy
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- Title:
- Plastics Engineering Handbook of the Society of the Plastics Industry
- Object name(s):
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Brief description:
- Berins, M.L. (Ed.), 1991. Plastics engineering handbook of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc, 5th ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York. This book contains the following: Foreword - Preface - 1. Glossary - 2. Polymer Chemistry - 3. Plastic materials / properties and applications - 4. Extrusion processes - 5. Injection moulding of plastics - 6. Design considerations for injection molds - 7. Injection mold manufacturing - 8. Injection molding of thermosets - 9. Compression and transfer molding - 10. Designing molds for thermoset processing - 11 Molded part design - 12. Blow molding of thermoplastics - 13. Thermoforming of plastic film and sheet - 14. Rotational molding - 15. Calendering - 16. Vinyl dispersions - 17. Powder coatings - 18. Reinforced plastics and composites - 19. Cellular Plastics - 20. Radiation processing - 21. Material and parts handling - 22. Compounding - 23. Finishing and machining plastics - 24. Joining and assembling plastics - 25. Design standards for inserts - 26. Decorating plastics - 27. Performance testing of plastics products - Index.
- Collection:
- Museum of Design in Plastics
- Associated concept:
- MoDiP reference library
- Object name:
- reference book; manufacturing and engineering
- Object number:
- MoDiPL : 0212
- Object production date:
- 1991
- Object production organisation:
- Van Nostrand Reinhold
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Object production person:
- Berins, Michael L.
- Person's association:
- Author
- Object production place:
- USA
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- Title:
- Disposable Cutlery
- Object name(s):
- Disposable cutlery
- Brief description:
- Disposable cutlery, styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer. Three piece cutlery set, the fork and spoon handles, grooved with ridged edges, the bowls dipped, the spoon, oval, the fork with three prongs. The knife handle a straight rod terminating with a triangular blade.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Design Council Award Winner
- Associated concept:
- Plastic
- Associated concept:
- Product design
- Associated concept:
- Tableware & cutlery
- Credit line:
- Gift of the manufacturer
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Material:
- styrene-acrylonitrile
- Object history note:
- Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1970.
Duke of Edinburgh Award for Eleganrt Design, 1968.
- Object name:
- Disposable cutlery
- Object number:
- CIRC.337 to B-1970
- Object production date:
- 1968
- Date - association:
- designed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1968-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1968-12-31
- Object production date:
- 1970
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1970-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1970-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- EKCO
- Organisation's association:
- manufacturer
- Object production person:
- David Harman Powell
- Person's association:
- designers
- Object production place:
- Southend-on-Sea
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Disposable cutlery, styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer. Three piece cutlery set, the fork and spoon handles, grooved with ridged edges, the bowls dipped, the spoon, oval, the fork with three prongs. The knife handle a straight rod terminating with a triangular blade.
- Reproduction number:
- 2019MA2798
- Responsible department/section:
- MET
- Technique:
- moulding
- Technique:
- styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- EKCO (from Eric Kirkham Cole Limited) was a British electronics company producing radio and television sets from 1924 until 1960. Expanding into plastic production for its own use, Ekco Plastics produced both radio cases and later domestic plastic products; the plastics company became Lin Pac Mouldings Ltd.
David Harman Powell was born in 1931 and educated at Southend School of Art 1946-9 where he won a travel scholarship enabling him to tour Europe, particularly Sweden, Denmark and Italy.
Industrial drawing experience at Ekco Ltd led to a permanent post in the design office under 'Jake' White and then, from 1953-60, at British Industrial Plastics under 'Woody' Woodfull. Powell returned to Ekco in 1960 to take over from Martyn Rowlands as chief designer of their Plastics Division.
Powell won the 1955 Horners' design award for an all-plastics greenhouse, the 1968 Design Council's Duke of Edinburgh Award for Elegant Design with the Ekco Nova range of tableware and the 1970 Council of Industrial Design Award for Ekco Nova flatware.
Powell's innovative and stylish award winning plastic objects played a major part in the acceptance of the material as a serious alternative to traditional materials, and in many cases as the most suitable material for new products.
From: Museum of Design in Plastics
- Text reason:
- Summary description
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