#Co-Creation Category
Leigh Cameron: designer-maker
Leigh Cameron talks about the process of drawing inspiration from MoDA’s collections. He is a professional designer/maker who usually works to a client brief, but here the boundaries were more open. He initially found not knowing exactly what he was going to do quite challenging. Read about his experience in his own words. […]
Thirtiestyle: Home decoration and furnishings from the 1930s
One of MoDA’s best-selling publications is Thirtiestyle: Home decoration and furnishings from the 1930s. Thirtiestyle is a fascinating and colourful guide to all aspects of decoration and design in the 1930s home. It is a compendium of contemporary illustrations and photographs, and it the shows the choices available to consumers during this period. Author Katie […]
Jane Audas: Charles Hasler Sends his Greetings
Charles Hasler Sends His Greetings is a taster of the many wonderful things contained in MoDA’s Charles Hasler collection. The book’s author Jane Audas delves into the collection to highlight fifty rare and unusual items from Victoriana to mid-century modern. Hasler (1908-1989) was a typographer and graphic designer. His collection reflects his magpie tendencies and wide-ranging […]
Sylvia Ikua: Collecting Colour
I stand by a cold, sterile-white table in the Museum of Design and Architecture. I am watching Sim Panaser, a young, passionate Curator, as she gently places a large book on the table. This is my first visit to the museum, a friend of mine had praised their collection of interesting and quirky objects so […]
Ellen Martin: The Value of the Everyday
The following piece is by Ellen Martin, who recently completed an MA in Design and Material Culture at Brighton University. Last year I completed my MA in History of Design and Material Culture at the University of Brighton – and the wonderful collections at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA) were crucial to […]
Catherine Rose Scott: Musings of a Wallpaper Rookie
I can’t claim to understand wallpaper very well. Even though I know that it is durable and has an impressive variety of patterns, the idea of essentially glueing paper to a wall is alien to me. Maybe this comes from growing up in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where wallpaper had fallen completely out of fashion […]
Aviva Leeman: Bringing You Better Living
Bringing You Better Living was a site-specific installation at Ten Grand Arcade by Aviva Leeman. The work is inspired by the Charles Hasler collection at MoDA. The commission is a collaborative project which was informed by the site and character of the gallery itself. The Hasler Gallery is located in a retail unit in a […]
Yemi Awosile: designer-maker
Yemi Awosile is a designer living and working in London, producing materials and textiles for objects and spaces. Her practice is driven by industry-led research, special commissions and collaboration across a range of disciplines within manufacturing, design and the visual arts. Read below to hear about Yemi’s work in her own words. In this project, […]
Leah Orford: Foraging For Inspiration
Often students surprise us with the innovative ways in which they use MoDA's collections.
Serena Dyer: Student style and a wallpaper sandwich
MoDA’s Curator, Serena Dyer, found herself fascinated by the wallpaper sandwich… In November 2003, wallpaper fragments from Peterhouse Cambridge were given to the museum. They were discovered during renovations of the college’s dorm rooms and gifted to the museum as a large slab of papers stuck together and scraped off a wall. Serena carried out more […]