2012

Our exhibition Beastly Designs , which looks at animal influenced design, is now open. Animals have evolved over thousands of years to maximise the potential of their most defining characteristics, for example the long grasping fingers and arms of an ape, the coiling of a snake, the far reaching...

MoDiP is pleased to display most of the 2012 shortlisted entries to this prestigious student award as a result of its close relationship with the Worshipful Company of Horners, joint sponsor of the competition. Horn is a natural plastic. When it became evident that manufacturing in horn was no...

When I saw @CultureThemes this month asking museums to get nautical with the theme #MuseumBoats I wasn’t convinced MoDiP would be able to join in the fun. We don't have any marine oil paintings showing grand vessels taking to the sea or any actual boats in the collection; we wouldn’t have the space...

Did you watch the amazing feat of Felix Baumgartner along with millions of people around the world last night? The Mission Red Bull Stratos is a scientific mission to 120,000 ft. Jumping from a stratospheric balloon one man will attempt to break the speed of sound in freefall. The Balloon Type: The...

During the summer months of 2012 MoDiP has been busy supporting the work of the summer schools and our International students by providing access to the collections in a number of ways. In July we were asked to provide a collection of brightly coloured artefacts to support the Fashion Studies Summer...

Wow! What a few weeks it has been for British cycling. The usual ups and downs of the Tour de France, with mountains, sprints, crashes and amazing speed, all topped off with a stage victory and an historic British winner. Congratulations to Bradeley Wiggins and all of Team Sky. Plastics have...

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...

Tomorrow the Olympic torch will be coming within a stones throw of the Museum. In celebration we thought we would share with you this sweet tube topper. He is holding up a torch from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. If sweet tube toppers do not light your fire we have a few torches in the collection...

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...

The MoDiP website is developing all the time. I have been recently concentrating on adding case studies to our Teaching & Learning pages. For these projects we have worked with students at all stages of their AUCB life, from their very first assessed work to their Final Major Projects. We have...