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We are one united voice for Ecocide Law Hear our call to make Ecocide the 5th crime against Peace! #thisisecocide http://thndr.me/xjMVLV

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Zuza Mengham

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Jeroen van der Gruiter is interested in how the perception of colour has everything to do with the way a surface catches the light, which changes throughout the day. In ‘The Passage of light’ he uses colour gradients to suggest architectonic structures, and fillings to emphasize shape. The series of semi-transparent glass vessels shift in hue, revealing their inner secrets as time goes by.

https://jeroenvandegruiter.nl/

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Prue Stent is 21 and only a few months out of college, but she's recently developed a massive online following, especially among young women, for her surreal, dreamy, and strangely gruesome photos of girls in bubblegum landscapes. Her work has started a conversation about the inversions around gender, beauty, and youth—but it's a conversation that the young artist doesn't always consciously lead

http://www.pruestent.com/

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Adrianus Kundert

DYNAMIC CERAMIC

Dynamic ceramic is a conceptual research into creating ceramic products that are soft and able to react to their own surroundings. It plays with the contrast of a hard material and a very vulnerable skin. It’s an ongoing material investigation which resulted in a series of vases that change in response to UV light, revealing new patterns, structures and colours.

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TRANS-SADDLES

Adrianus Kundert

From integrating scratch-proof coatings to finishes that facilitate easy cleaning, we do everything in our power to prevent our products from aging by essentially freezing them in time. But why? Adrianus Kundert believes richness comes with age and it’s a phenomenon that can add to a design’s value. Within his work, Kundert chooses to let gradual erosion become part of a product’s lifespan. The follow up to a series of rugs, which revealed different colours, textures and patterns when ‘damaged’ by usage, Trans-saddles is an experiment in seating areas. Just like the floor coverings, they change appearance after repeatedly coming into contact with people.

Part of the Envisions, products in process www.envisions.nl

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Adrianus Kundert

Ripening Rugs 

Ripening Rugs represent a positive take on the process of wear. We have designed these rugs so that they come to life through intensive use: as the yarn or weave becomes worn, the rug begins to reveal a different colour, texture, or pattern. Working closely with different companies and professionals, we have developed our own techniques, including yarns with special characteristics. The gradual erosion is what makes these floor coverings increase in attractiveness, each in its own way, rather than rendering them valueless and ending their life as with so many industrially manufactured products. 

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Happy Concrete 

Iwan Pol 

Concrete can take any shape or form, so why not aim for a softer look and feel?

Through various experiments with pigments, texture and casting, IWAN revalues the construction material for aesthetic purposes, envisioning it as a tactile skin for buildings or a soft flooring surface.

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Everything but the end product 

Milan 2016: in response to the vast amount of finished products on show at Milan design week, a group of graduates from Design Academy Eindhoven decided to exhibit only materials.

The group of nine students, who all graduated from the Dutch universitylast year, came together to showcase the unseen steps of the research process – resulting in a colourful material-focussed exhibition called Envisions.

"I call it an archive of ideas," Iwan Pol, one of the exhibiting designers, told Dezeen. "We want to show people what happens before something becomes an end product, which is what you see a lot here in Milan."

Designs on show at the exhibition include an experiment with concrete by Pol, a series of woven wood pieces by Simone Post, and a collection of 3D-printed "futuristic objects" by Bastiaan de Nennie.

Pol, along with fellow students Simone Post and Sanne Schuurman, began the nine-person Envisions collective in hopes of creating a more open dialogue between designers, clients and manufacturers.

At their monthly meet-ups, each designer lays out their work in the middle of the room. The group then have open discussions about each piece and how it could develop. "In Milan, the visitor or the viewer is not able to have an influence on what happens before it became that object," said Pol. "You could think it was ugly or you could think it was nice, but the conversation is over."

Pol believes that the exhibition will allow for unexpected developments in the making process, and will ultimately provide the designers with joint ventures.

"What we wanted to do with this is really get the people involved and show them the starting points of some ideas," he said. "For all these starting designers it's hard to find work, and we thought by combining all this creativity at once and getting people to come see it, maybe collaborations could form out of something that isn't really something yet."

articel featured on http://www.dezeen.com/

artist 

http://www.iwanpol.com/

http://www.simonepost.nl/

http://sanneschuurman.com/

http://www.bastiaandenennie.com/

http://www.adrianuskundert.com/

https://jeroenvandegruiter.nl/

http://www.plott.nl/

http://www.studiotrulytruly.com/

http://tijsgilde.com/

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“Blessed are those who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.”

for the sake of reflection and sharing  my private tumblr

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shit fack, 

i officially do not have a collaboration partner or plan 

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Adeline de Monseignat

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Bart Hess

The Grotto

2015

What better place to contemplate ourselves and our contemporary world than the cave, that most matrix-like of spaces? The grotto made for the exhibition at "Vous avez dit Bizarre ?" at the design Biennale in Saint Ettienne is the starting point for a voyage of introspection.

The act of entering into a cavity takes on a symbolic and mythical character.  Those who pass the threshold of the cave embark in search of the unknown; set off to face the forces of mystery and confront what is hidden. The grotto, like everything grotesque, carries within it the idea of surprise. Like the grottoes in Renaissance Italy, the stage-set makes use of theatrical tricks, the re-nascence of play. Each column has its own personality and changes form under lights that create a heightened dramatic effect. By exploring the crevices of the cave, the curious will discover its intimate treasures: their path is studded with objects, a myriad little surprises.

The meeting of stalactite and stalagmite makes up the Pillar of the World, a ladder to be climbed, linking Heaven and Earth; the material world and the spiritual.

The cave is the universal analog between macrocosm and microcosm: it is the expression of the force of creation, transformation, and perpetual evolution. Whoever enters into the bowels of the earth emerges changed by gestation, reflection and maturation.  The visitor’s imagination is enflamed by their emotions: pillars that dissolve, the fusion of masculine strength and feminine cavities, a life-giving liquid that ebbs and flows; a hybrid of the organic and the mineral. The form of these columns draped in their latex skins are like the grotesque itself: they have a thousand different lives.

text : Alexandra Jaffré

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Anthozoa: Cape & Skirt

3-D Printed Dress in collaboration with Iris Van Herpen

By Neri Oxman 2012, 3D Print Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A 3-D printed dress was debuted in the Paris Fashion Week Spring 2013 as part of collaboration with fashion designer Iris Van Herpen for her show "Voltage". The 3D printed skirt and cape were produced using Stratasys’ unique Objet Connex multi-material 3D printing technology, which allows a variety of material properties to be printed in a single build. This allowed both hard and soft materials to be incorporated within the design, crucial to the movement and texture of the piece.

In collaboration with Prof. W. Craig Carter and Keren Oxman Production: Stratasys 3D printed with Stratasys multi-material 3D printing technology Photography: Eloy Ricardez Luna

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