Product Information
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Jeffers, Grace
label: Collection Creator
content: Formica Corporation.
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content: Formica Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1948-1994
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0565, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes guides, product books, information manuals, samples, and Formica Facts , a product book containing technical specifications for plastic laminate dated 1988. These technical manuals and fabrication guides provide use and care guidelines, offer tips for handling and storage, and describe techniques for working with plastic laminate.

Catalogs, brochures, and samples provide information on new product lines, patterns, and colors of the surfacing laminate from 1965 to 1994. Formica's product literature documents: atomic patterns and space-age colors of the 1960s, the top-selling laminates of sliced avocado, bittersweet, and harvest yellow of the 1970s, and the pastels and post-modern designs of the 1980s and 1990s. Catalog brochures, 1965-1970, parallel advertising campaigns of the time, featuring titles such as Join the Revolution for Easy Living ;  Join the Colour  [ sic ] Revolution , and Of Course You Want a Formica Laminated Plastic Color-Kissed Kitchen . The series also includes color systems developed by Formica such as the Color Grid, Color + Color, and Color System/Color Compliment. These systems, developed by the Design Advisory Board in the early 1980s, enabled both distributor and consumer to mix and match samples of COLORCORE more effectively.