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Title:: Black and white 'Input' range vase
Object name(s):: Ashtray
Brief description:: Cylindrical white ashtray, with black insert.
Collection:: Victoria and Albert Museum

Associated concept:: ELISE
Associated concept:: Product design
Associated concept:: Plastic
Associated concept:: Household objects
Credit line:: Given by the Manufacturers
Current reproduction location:: https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2009CA1819/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:: Thumbnail
Dimension:: Height
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 5
Dimension:: Width
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 15.5
Dimension:: Depth
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 15.5
Material:: plastic
Object history note:: Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1974.
Object history note:: The tension between the idea of plastic as a cheap mass-market substitute for other materials and plastic as an exciting modern design material only began to be resolved in the late sixties with designers using plastic for its own intrinsic qualitites. The glossy, smooth surfaces, generous curves and bright colours on the 'Input' range was a successful attempt to apply high-design principles to plastic kitchenware for everyday use. Plastic reached a peak of popularity in the early 1970s before the ecological implications of long-term disposal made it a less attractive design material. ABS plastic, also used for the production of objects like telephones, Lego and hairdryers, is similar in look and feel to early phenolic plastics. The full 'Input' range of twenty-one items were practical and modular. Most sizes could be bought either with or without lids. Some had optional heat-resistant inserts to create ashtrays. 'Input' was one of the key ranges which re-defined the aesthetic of the kitchen. It was a forerunner of many similar ranges, and long-term commercial success, with wide distribution. It won a Design Council Award in 1974.
Object name:: Ashtray
Object number:: CIRC.105A-1977
Object production date:: 1974
Date - association:: made
Date - earliest / single:: 1974-01-01
Date - latest:: 1974-12-31
Object production date:: 1970-1975
Date - association:: made
Date - earliest / single:: 1970-01-01
Date - latest:: 1975-12-31
Object production organisation:: Conran Associates
Organisation's association:: designer
Object production organisation:: Crayonne Ltd
Organisation's association:: manufacturer
Object production place:: Britain
Place association:: made
Physical description:: Cylindrical white ashtray, with black insert.
Reproduction number:: 2009CA1819
Reproduction number:: 2007BR3930
Reproduction number:: 2006AT7884
Responsible department/section:: CER
Technique:: Plastic (ABS Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene)
Text:: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O21603/
Text reason:: Collections online record
Text:: In 1972 Airfix Plastics initiated a design programme which aimed to improve the image of plastics from cheap and disposable to high quality and desirable. The business approached Conran Associates, a design subsidiary of Habitat, to design a range of plastic products for the office or home. The Input range was launched in May 1973 and designed by Conran Associates for Crayonne, a newly established division of Airfix. The range consisted of 21 'containers' including bowls, dishes, trays, bins, vases, pots and an ice bucket which were all made from heavy duty ABS plastic, selected for its strength and scratch and shatter resistance. Gift boxed to elevate their appeal, they were initially produced in four colours: red, yellow, green and white. The containers were produced to be almost twice as thick as other ABS products through a particularly low rate injection moulding cycle. All the units in the range were based on the same diameter and height ratios to achieve an integrated appearance and were given identification numbers, rather than names. The Royal Free Hospital placed an order of the containers to be used as vases to bring colour and cheer to their wards. The range won a Design Centre Award and featured in the exhibition British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age at the V&A in 2012.
Text reason:: Summary description
Text:: PART OF A RANGE 'CRAYONNE' Plastic ENGLISH: designed by Conran Associates, made by Crayonne Ltd. a division of Airfix Plastics Ltd.; 1974 Circ.105&A, 111 to B, 114&A-1977 Given by the Manufacturers
Text reason:: Gallery label text

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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:: Pinti bottle
Object name(s):: food and drink packaging; bottle
Brief description:: A master pattern used for the design of a new milk bottle. This pattern was also used for the design of the crates in which the bottles were transported. Made from cast acrylic by National Plastics, circa late 1970s
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: packaging and materials handling
Colour:: colourless
Dimension:: height 190 mm
Dimension:: diameter 75 mm
Inscription content:: 70712 Cap.at FP 6030 +-3.0ml FP9.5 WT 248g
Inscription method:: inscribed
Inscription position:: base
Material:: plastic
Material:: PMMA
Material:: polymethyl methacrylate
Material:: acrylic
Object name:: food and drink packaging; bottle
Object number:: AIBDC : 006602SA
Object production organisation:: National Plastics
Organisation's association:: Manufacturer
Object production person:: Unknown
Person's association:: Designer
Object production place:: UK
Technique:: cast

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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
Current reproduction location:: https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2019MA2798/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
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:: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1194652/
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:: Ice bucket from 'Input' range
Object name(s):: Ice bucket
Brief description:: Cylindrical orange/red plastic tub, lid with three circular indents, and an insert.
Collection:: Victoria and Albert Museum

Associated concept:: ELISE
Associated concept:: Product design
Associated concept:: Plastic
Associated concept:: Household objects
Credit line:: Given by the Manufacturers
Current reproduction location:: https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MN7601/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:: Thumbnail
Dimension:: Height
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 17.4
Dimension:: Diameter
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 17.9
Material:: plastic
Object history note:: Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1974.
Object history note:: The tension between the idea of plastic as a cheap mass-market substitute for other materials and plastic as an exciting modern design material only began to be resolved in the late sixties with designers using plastic for its own intrinsic qualitites. The glossy, smooth surfaces, generous curves and bright colours on the 'Input' range was a successful attempt to apply high-design principles to plastic kitchenware for everyday use. Plastic reached a peak of popularity in the early 1970s before the ecological implications of long-term disposal made it a less attractive design material. ABS plastic, also used for the production of objects like telephones, Lego and hairdryers, is similar in look and feel to early phenolic plastics. The full 'Input' range of twenty-one items were practical and modular. Most sizes could be bought either with or without lids. Some had optional heat-resistant inserts to create ashtrays. 'Input' was one of the key ranges which re-defined the aesthetic of the kitchen. It was a forerunner of many similar ranges, and long-term commercial success, with wide distribution. It won a Design Council Award in 1974.
Object name:: Ice bucket
Object number:: CIRC.111 to B-1977
Object production date:: 1974
Date - association:: made
Date - earliest / single:: 1974-01-01
Date - latest:: 1974-12-31
Object production organisation:: Conran Associates
Organisation's association:: designer
Object production organisation:: Crayonne Ltd
Organisation's association:: manufacturer
Object production place:: Britain
Place association:: made
Physical description:: Cylindrical orange/red plastic tub, lid with three circular indents, and an insert.
Reproduction number:: 2020MN7601
Reproduction number:: 2007BR3930
Reproduction number:: 2006AT7884
Responsible department/section:: CER
Technique:: Plastic (ABS Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene)
Text:: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O21600/
Text reason:: Collections online record
Text:: In 1972 Airfix Plastics initiated a design programme which aimed to improve the image of plastics from cheap and disposable to high quality and desirable. The business approached Conran Associates, a design subsidiary of Habitat, to design a range of plastic products for the office or home. The Input range was launched in May 1973 and designed by Conran Associates for Crayonne, a newly established division of Airfix. The range consisted of 21 'containers' including bowls, dishes, trays, bins, vases, pots and an ice bucket which were all made from heavy duty ABS plastic, selected for its strength and scratch and shatter resistance. Gift boxed to elevate their appeal, they were initially produced in four colours: red, yellow, green and white. The containers were produced to be almost twice as thick as other ABS products through a particularly low rate injection moulding cycle. All the units in the range were based on the same diameter and height ratios to achieve an integrated appearance and were given identification numbers, rather than names. The Royal Free Hospital placed an order of the containers to be used as vases to bring colour and cheer to their wards. The range won a Design Centre Award and featured in the exhibition British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age at the V&A in 2012.
Text reason:: Summary description
Text:: PART OF A RANGE 'CRAYONNE' Plastic ENGLISH: designed by Conran Associates, made by Crayonne Ltd. a division of Airfix Plastics Ltd.; 1974 Circ.105&A, 111 to B, 114&A-1977 Given by the Manufacturers
Text reason:: Gallery label text
User's reference:
Reference:: Breward Christopher and Wood, Ghislaine. British design from 1948:Innovation in the Modern Age . London, V&A publishing, 2012. p141. ISBN 978 1 851776740

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Title:: Plastic Icons
Object name(s):: reference book; museums, collections, and exhibitions
Brief description:: Schepers, W. (Ed.), 2016. Plastic Icons: Design-Ikonen aus Kunststoff. avedition, Stuttgart. This book is in German and was edited by Wolfgang Schepers for the Deutsche Kunststoff-Museum, the German Plastics Museum.
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: MoDiP reference library
Object name:: reference book; museums, collections, and exhibitions
Object number:: MoDiPL : 0355
Object production organisation:: avedition
Organisation's association:: Publisher
Object production person:: Schepers, Wolfgang
Person's association:: Editor
Object production place:: Germany

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Title:: 125 Years of Plastics poster - The First plastics
Object name(s):: education; poster
Brief description:: The first part of an ESPI poster illustrating discoveries in the plastics industry. This poster covers discoveries from 1843 to 1892.
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: archival material
Colour:: white
Colour:: brown
Colour:: multi-coloured
Dimension:: height 1 mm
Dimension:: width 545 mm
Dimension:: length 790 mm
Inscription content:: Further copies of this poster, and parts II and III in this series entitles 'The History of Plastics' can be obtained by writing to: ESPI (logo) EDUCATION SERVICE OF THE PLASTICS INDUSTRY. University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU. Telephone: LOUGHBOROUGH (0509) 232065. PPITB (logo). Designs and Illustrations - Elaine Laws. Technical Adviser - Dr. Morris Kaufman.
Inscription method:: printed
Inscription position:: bottom panel of poster
Material:: paper
Object name:: education; poster
Object number:: AIBDC : 010361
Object production date:: 1979
Object production organisation:: ESPI
Organisation's association:: Manufacturer
Object production person:: Laws, Elaine
Person's association:: Designer
Object production place:: UK
Technique:: printed

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Title:: De Piste carrier bag
Object name(s):: materials handling; bag
Brief description:: De Piste plastic carrier bag with logo of skier in pink and black. The design is repeated on both sides. Pre 1998.
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: packaging and materials handling
Colour:: white
Colour:: black
Colour:: pink
Dimension:: length 460 mm
Dimension:: height 560 mm
Material:: plastic
Object name:: materials handling; bag
Object number:: AIBDC : 0_1469
Object production date:: 1998

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Title:: Plastics Engineering Handbook of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. 4th ed.
Object name(s):: reference book; manufacturing and engineering
Brief description:: Frados, J. (Ed.), 1976. Plastics Engineering Handbook of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc, 4th ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Dallas & San Francisco. This book covers the following: Foreword - Preface - 1. Glossary - 2. Polymer chemistry - 3. Engineering and design guide to plastics - 4. Injection molding of thermoplastics - 5. Controls for injection molding machines - 6. Designing molds for injection molding molding - 7. Extrusion - 8. Compression and transfer molding - 9. Injection molding thermosets - 10. Design molds for thermoset processing - 11. Cold molding - 12. Thermoforming plastic film and sheet - 13. Blow molding - 14. Rotational molding - 15. Calendering - 16. Vinyl dispersions - 17. Powder coatings - 18. Casting - 19. Reinforced plastics - 20. Cellular plastics - 21. Radiation processing - 22. Moldmaking and materials - Designing molded products - 24. Standards for tolerances on molded articles - 25. Finishing and machining plastics - 26. Decorating plastics - 27. Joining and assembling plastics - 28. Design standards for inserts - 29. Compounding and materials handling - 30. Performance testing of plastic products - Index
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: MoDiP reference library
Object name:: reference book; manufacturing and engineering
Object number:: MoDiPL : 0200
Object production date:: 1976
Object production organisation:: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Organisation's association:: Publisher
Object production person:: Frados, Joel
Person's association:: Author
Object production place:: USA

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Title:: Smart Design potato peeler
Object name(s):: kitchenware; peeler
Brief description:: Potato peeler with a broad handle, designed by Smart Design Inc. c.1998. Winner of the Industrial Design Excellence Award, 1992 and the Tylenon/Arthritis Foundation Design Award of America. c.1998
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: house and garden
Colour:: black
Inscription content:: Oxo. Made in Taiwan. Designed by Smart Design Inc. Patent No. Brevet No. 497 4286
Material:: metal
Material:: plastic
Material:: rubber
Object name:: kitchenware; peeler
Object number:: AIBDC : 000961
Object production date:: 1998
Object production organisation:: OXO
Organisation's association:: Manufacturer

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Title:: Holograms promoting Frosties cereals (2 each of 3 designs)
Object name(s):: collectable; give-away
Brief description:: Six holograms for Kelloggs Frosties cereal, 2 each of 3 designs. c.1990s
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: toys and games
Colour:: multi-coloured
Dimension:: length 625 mm
Dimension:: width 130 mm
Material:: plastic
Object name:: collectable; give-away
Object number:: AIBDC : 004318

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Title:: Lecture to be given to the North Western Section of The Plastics Institute
Object name(s):: education; presentation script
Brief description:: A set of typed lecture notes on 10 pages, written by A.H.Woodfull, entitled 'Lecture to be given by Mr.A.H.Woofull to the North Western Section of the Plastics Institute on January 23rd 1953.' There are handwritten corrections and additions throughout the document. Topics covered include: Mass consumption and creating the desire for ownership
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: archival material
Colour:: black and white print
Dimension:: height 329 mm
Dimension:: width 203 mm
Material:: paper
Object name:: education; presentation script
Object number:: AIBDC : 008203.6
Object production date:: 1953
Object production person:: Woodfull, Albert Henry
Person's association:: Author
Object production place:: UK
Technique:: typed

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Object name(s):: Plate
Brief description:: Yellow babies' plate with white interior in moulded Melaware (Melmex) plastic.
Collection:: Victoria and Albert Museum

Associated concept:: Tableware & cutlery
Associated concept:: Children & Childhood
Credit line:: Given by the designer
Current reproduction location:: https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MN9637/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:: Thumbnail
Dimension:: Height
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 3.5
Dimension:: Diameter
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 16.5
Object name:: Plate
Object number:: C.64-2003
Object production date:: ca. 1957
Date - association:: designed
Date - earliest / single:: 1952-01-01
Date - latest:: 1961-12-31
Object production organisation:: EKCO
Organisation's association:: manufacturer
Object production person:: Rowlands, Martyn
Person's association:: designer
Object production place:: England
Place association:: made
Physical description:: Yellow babies' plate with white interior in moulded Melaware (Melmex) plastic.
Reproduction number:: 2020MN9637
Responsible department/section:: CER
Technique:: Moulded Melaware (Melmex) plastic
Text:: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O96729/
Text reason:: Collections online record
Text:: Martyn Rowlands trained at the Central School in London. He specialised in plastics. He was one of the first trained industrial designers to work with British industry after the Second World War. He worked first for Bakelite Ltd, then set up the design department at Ekco Plastics, where his products won a number of design awards. In 1959 he left Ekco to work as an independent design consultant. This was at a time when the idea of the design consultancy in Britain was still in its infancy. One important commission in 1966 was the popular telephone known as the ‘Trimphone’, which won a Design Council Award. Rowlands's products for Ekco included tableware, nursery products, a baby bath with stand and a watering can. He developed products specifically to suit the qualities of plastic materials. He did this rather than simply carry across traditional forms.
Text reason:: Summary description
User's reference:
Reference:: Penny Sparke: "Consultant Design: The History and Practice of the Designer in Industry", Pembridge Press, 1983

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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
Current reproduction location:: https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2019MA2798/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:: Thumbnail
Material:: styrene-acrylonitrile
Object history note:: Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1970. Duke of Edinburgh Design Award for Elegant Design, 1968.
Object name:: Disposable cutlery
Object number:: CIRC.334 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
Object status:: Mass produced
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
Style:: Modernist
Technique:: moulding
Technique:: Styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer
Text:: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1194649/
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:: Butterfly napkin holder
Object name(s):: tableware; napkin ring
Brief description:: A cream-coloured plastic napkin holder with a butterfly design circa 1950s. The holder was made in England.
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: house and garden
Colour:: cream
Dimension:: height 105 mm
Dimension:: width 120 mm
Material:: plastic
Material:: unidentified
Object name:: tableware; napkin ring
Object number:: AIBDC : 003363
Object production organisation:: Unknown
Organisation's association:: Manufacturer
Object production person:: Unknown
Person's association:: Designer
Technique:: unknown

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Use licence for this record: CC BY

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Title:: Plastics Engineering Handbook of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. 3rd ed.
Object name(s):: reference book; manufacturing and engineering
Brief description:: Randolph, A.F. (Ed.), 1960. Plastics Engineering Handbook of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc, 3rd ed. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York. This book covers the following: Foreword - Introduction - Committees - 1. Nomenclature - 2. Classification of rigid molding materials - 3. Compression molding - 4. Transfer molding - 5. Injection molding - 5. Cold molding - 7. Injection molding of thermoplastics - 8. Preforming, drying and preheating - 9. Extrusion and extrusion machines - 10. Fabrication of articles from thermoplastic sheets - 11. Reinforced plastics - 12. Cellular plastics - 13. Casting - 14. Tooling with plastics - 15. Embedding and potting - 16. Vinyl dispersions - 17. Design of molded articles - 18. Standards for tolerances on molded articles - 19. Design standards for inserts - 20. Design of molds and dies - 21. Machining, finishing, and decorating - 22. Cementing, welding and assembly of plastics - 23. Plastics as adhesives - 24. Performance testing of articles made form plastics - 25. Commercial standards - 26. Nema standards for laminated industrial and decorative products - Index
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: MoDiP reference library
Object name:: reference book; manufacturing and engineering
Object number:: MoDiPL : 0248
Object production date:: 1960
Object production organisation:: Reinhold Publishing Corporation
Organisation's association:: Publisher
Object production person:: Randolph, Alan F.
Person's association:: Editor
Object production place:: USA

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Use licence for this record: CC BY

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Title:: Rhino Records/Video Paradiso carrier bag
Object name(s):: materials handling; bag
Brief description:: Plastic carrier bag with Rhino Records design on side one and Video Paradiso design on side 2. 1998. USA
Collection:: Museum of Design in Plastics

Associated concept:: packaging and materials handling
Colour:: white
Colour:: blue
Dimension:: length 255 mm
Dimension:: height 300 mm
Material:: plastic
Object name:: materials handling; bag
Object number:: AIBDC : 0_1481
Object production date:: 1998
Object production place:: USA

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Use licence for this record: CC BY

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Object name(s):: Tub
Brief description:: Cylindrical green plastic tub, lid with three circular indents.
Collection:: Victoria and Albert Museum

Associated concept:: ELISE
Credit line:: Given by the Manufacturers
Current reproduction location:: https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2020MN9601/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:: Thumbnail
Dimension:: Height
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 15.8
Dimension:: Width
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 11.6
Dimension:: Depth
Dimension measurement unit:: cm
Dimension value:: 11.6
Material:: plastic
Object history note:: Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1974.
Object history note:: The tension between the idea of plastic as a cheap mass-market substitute for other materials and plastic as an exciting modern design material only began to be resolved in the late sixties with designers using plastic for its own intrinsic qualitites. The glossy, smooth surfaces, generous curves and bright colours on the 'Input' range was a successful attempt to apply high-design principles to plastic kitchenware for everyday use. Plastic reached a peak of popularity in the early 1970s before the ecological implications of long-term disposal made it a less attractive design material. ABS plastic, also used for the production of objects like telephones, Lego and hairdryers, is similar in look and feel to early phenolic plastics. The full 'Input' range of twenty-one items were practical and modular. Most sizes could be bought either with or without lids. Some had optional heat-resistant inserts to create ashtrays. 'Input' was one of the key ranges which re-defined the aesthetic of the kitchen. It was a forerunner of many similar ranges, and long-term commercial success, with wide distribution. It won a Design Council Award in 1974.
Object name:: Tub
Object number:: CIRC.114&A-1977
Object production date:: 1974
Date - association:: made
Date - earliest / single:: 1974-01-01
Date - latest:: 1974-12-31
Object production organisation:: Conran Associates
Organisation's association:: designer
Object production organisation:: Crayonne Ltd
Organisation's association:: manufacturer
Physical description:: Cylindrical green plastic tub, lid with three circular indents.
Reproduction number:: 2020MN9601
Reproduction number:: 2007BR3930
Reproduction number:: 2006AT7884
Responsible department/section:: CER
Technique:: Plastic (ABS Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene)
Text:: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O21602/
Text reason:: Collections online record
Text:: PART OF A RANGE 'CRAYONNE' Plastic ENGLISH: designed by Conran Associates, made by Crayonne Ltd. a division of Airfix Plastics Ltd.; 1974 Circ.105&A, 111 to B, 114&A-1977 Given by the Manufacturers
Text reason:: Gallery label text
User's reference:
Reference:: Breward Christopher and Wood, Ghislaine. British design from 1948:Innovation in the Modern Age . London, V&A publishing, 2012. pp112,121,135,137,141,146,175. ISBN 978 1 851776740

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Title:: Disposable Cutlery
Object name(s):: Knife, fork and spoon in a sheath
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
Current reproduction location:: https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2019MA2798/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
Location type:: Thumbnail
Dimension:: Length
Dimension measured part:: Fork
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 180
Dimension:: Width
Dimension measured part:: Fork
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 22
Dimension:: Depth
Dimension measured part:: Fork
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 18
Dimension:: Length
Dimension measured part:: Knife
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 178
Dimension:: Width
Dimension measured part:: Knife (Handle)
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 15
Dimension:: Depth
Dimension measured part:: Knife (Blade)
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 20
Dimension:: Length
Dimension measured part:: Spoon
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 176
Dimension:: Width
Dimension measured part:: Spoon
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 40
Dimension:: Depth
Dimension measured part:: Spoon
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 18
Dimension:: Length
Dimension measured part:: Sheath
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 221
Dimension:: Width
Dimension measured part:: Sheath
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 67
Dimension:: Depth
Dimension measured part:: Sheath
Dimension measurement unit:: mm
Dimension value:: 3
Material:: styrene acrylonitrile
Object history note:: Historical significance: Winner of the Design Centre Award in 1970. Duke of Edinburgh Award for Elegant Design, 1968.
Object name:: Knife, fork and spoon in a sheath
Object number:: CIRC.336 to C-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
Object status:: Mass produced
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
Reproduction number:: 2021NB5776
Reproduction number:: 2021NB5777
Reproduction number:: 2021NB5795
Reproduction number:: 2021NB5796
Reproduction number:: 2021NB5797
Reproduction number:: 2021NB5798
Responsible department/section:: MET
Style:: Modernist
Technique:: moulding
Technique:: styrene acrylonitrile co-polymer
Text:: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1194651/
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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