Submit Item

ADA has a growing collection of Arabic design materials. You can help us on our journey to preserve our history. We encourage everyone who has a collection to get in touch with us if you need help preserving it. Alternatively, you can submit your collection of items through the form below.


To give you some pointers on the kinds of material you can submit, below is a (by no means comprehensive) list:

✹ Print Material: 

  • Posters
  • Postcards
  • Stamps
  • Cassette covers and vinyl covers
  • Book or magazine covers
  • Banknotes
  • Letraset
  • Brochure and flyers
  • Photographs related to art or design
  • Other ephemera

✹ Sound & film: 

  • Recordings of interviews, whether audio or video
  • Documentaries about designers or artists
  • Motion design

 Motion design: 

  • Movie titles
  • Animations
  • Advertising

 Notes on Submissions:

The submitted work needs to be from the period spanning the 1930s to the 1990s.

If you have a folder containing many items, please send a WeTransfer link to: submit@ada.com 

Use the form below to submit items directly to us