Designers who worked for the Silver Studio acquired lots of material for visual reference. Charles Hasler was also an avid collector of printed typography and ephemera.
Have a look at our Typography, Graphic Design and Ephemera reading list to find out more.
Have a look at a selection of ephemera from our collection
Highlights from the collection
Ephemera relating to Ripolin paint manufacturing company
This image shows a page of thermoplastic flooring designs in a catalogue for Krommenie Coloretta Thermoplastic Flooring, published in 1965.
Carsons Sunway Colours: the complete colour card … hundreds of beautiful colours and a unique guide to perfect painting.
A fold-out catalogue of colour charts by Bestobell Paints and Chemicals Ltd from around 1980.
Six postcards of glamorous women
This is one of six postcards of glamorous women from a series published by Reinthal & Newman of New York, designed by Harrison Fisher.
Yellow 75 Pfennig Hameln notgeld showing Septuplets memorial
This notgeld is from Hameln and has the value of 75 Pfennig.
Object focus
Object Focus: Graphic design meets furniture design
Spotlight on a Finmar Furniture catalogue
Object Focus: Publicity, Packaging and Postcards
The particular details of everyday inspiration
Sahava Baranow: Notgeld
MoDA holds a total of sixty Notgeld or 'emergency money' banknotes in the reference collection which belonged to the designer Charles Hasler. UCL student Sahava Baranow found out more about them.
How people have been inspired by our ephemera
Deborah Sugg Ryan: the age of affordable suburbia
Deborah Sugg Ryan finds that in the 1930s, semi detached houses in suburbia were within the means of the lower middle classes.
Jane Audas: Charles Hasler Sends his Greetings
MoDA's new book on the Ephemera Collection of mid-century designer, Charles Hasler
Ellen Martin: The Value of the Everyday
Read about some student research into suburban 'ordinary' homes, mass-produced furniture and design.