who
During his years at the academy you could find Bas mostly in the workshops. The physical side of design and the arts & crafts of manufacturing techniques are still his passion. He combines ‘hands-on’ mentality with scientific research – thereby challenging the industrial reality.
"Fascinated by products and the relationship
with their manufacturing processes"
His vision is to bring back manufacturing to our societies. Using new digital techniques. Focussing on textile products, his follow-up research in has been supported with significant EU grants. To take action: he co-founded UNSEAM that now aims to bring these ideas to the market.
Bas Froon (1978) is graduated at the Master Industrial Design of the KABK The Hague in 2017. He also holds a Master title of Twente University.
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publications and awards
exhibitions (selection)
2020 – Material District Rotterdam (upcoming)
2019 – Dutch Design Week – New Order of Fashion, Going Circular Going Cellulose, YKSI Expo, WORTH Partnership Project
2018 – Gent Design Museum | Fibre-Fixed ‘Composites in Design’
2018 – BOZAR Brussels | WEAR Sustain closing event ‘UNSEAM’
2018 – Salone del Mobile | Milano | ‘Local manufacturing workshop’
2018 – MaterialXperience2018 | Micromoulded Biocomposites
2017 – Dutch Design Week | ‘Micromoulding Machine’
2017 – Royal Academy of Art | The Hague | ‘The Future is Local’
2014 – Salone del Mobile | Milano | ‘Inflatable Landscape’
publications (selection)
2019 – Jeroen Junte | Do it Ourselves
2019 – Marina Toeters | Unfolding Fashion Tech
2019 – HvA | RECURF-UP! van biocomposiet tot designproduct
2019 – Studies in Textiel | Non-woven special
2019 – Bee Magazine | Designers view on sustainability
2019 – DUDE Dutch Designers Magazine | Green Pitching
2018 – Lut Pil & Ignaas Verpoest | ‘Fibre-Fixes’ Composites in Design
2018 – Design Report Magazine | Biobased Babycarrier
2018 – Volkskrant Magazine | Biobased Babycarrier
2017 – Dutch Designers Magazine | ’30 most promising graduates’
2017 – RTV Noord-Holland | Television item on innovative entrepreneurs
lectures & presentations
2020 – Plastic Free World (Cologne) (upcoming)
2020 – Material District Rotterdam (upcoming)
2019 – Dutch Design Week – DRIVE Festival & New Order of Fashion
2018 – Folks & Dudes event | ‘How to pitch your sustainable idea?’
2018 – Textielcommissie | Symposium non-woven
2018 – Minister van Engelshoven | Salone del Mobile
2018 – WORTH Partnership Project | Madrid
2017 – Dutch Designers Association (BNO): ‘See YA, Dude’ event
clients and partners
fields of expertise
material research
material development
manufacturing R&D
business development
industry experience
in-house prototyping
industrial design
visualisation
circular design
sampling
3D printing
in-house CNC
