Now Future Eindhoven — The Alchemist by Nina van Bart

The Alchemist is a trend forecast, a short film by Nina van Bart for the wellness industry with a new approach to body care and beauty treatments.

Life has been hectic in the society in recent years. After the economic downfall one starts wondering what is really meaningful in life. Caring for one self, spending time with attention and a deep sense of importance intensifies the experience of wellbeing.

The bathroom will become a laboratory. In this laboratory one transforms components like liquids, minerals, emulsifiers and powders into body care products, performing a quest for the ultimate treasure of wellbeing.

An exploratory way of making one’s own body care products. Substances will react with each other. These reactions will give new super-sensory experiences: growing crystals that scrub the skin, slippery matter that massages the feet, titillating tonic that nourishes the nails or drifting mist that cleans the face.
One will be an alchemist.

This is one of her graduation projects, initiated by the Design academy Eindhoven at the department Man and Identity. Year 2013

Nina van Bart graduated June 2013 at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Man & Identity department. In this department she developed herself as a texture designer, material designer, trend forecaster, visual artist and art director. Since her graduation she works as freelancer.

Often she creates unknown identities and surrealistic atmospheres and makes them become real, stimulates the senses and gives experience and inspiration. Each project has an artistic realm that expire the worlds of film, photography, trend development, material development, graphic design, sculpture, culture and technology.

Each project she starts with investigating the essence of the subject and then makes a translation to the present time and the future. Thereby she works intuitively as a child, makes new connections of extreme, and thinks outside the boundaries of the most daily materials. Then the personality and beauty of craftsmanship and the perfection of technology are to merge. Furthermore, she believes in the power of collaboration by pooling people with all the necessary skills and talents. This brings surprising discoveries and unknown combinations.