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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/

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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/