Projects begin lighter

Choosing materials starts from one reference photo, and you can see how the combination looks standing in a room.

001The run of a project

How one project runs

From the first reference photo to the project after this one — where Conc takes a step for you.

  1. 01

    Start from one reference photo

    Upload the photo your client sent and it comes back read surface by surface — floor, wall, furniture — each with materials you can actually get hold of and the reasoning attached.

    Before

    Two days of asking around to find out what that café wall was, and another day to find who sells it.

  2. 02

    See the combination while you are still deciding

    Pick a few candidates, say where each one goes, and the combination comes back as a room. Line up three directions and choose between them.

    Before

    Half a day of modelling for one look. You built a single direction and guessed at the rest.

  3. 03

    Narrow it down on the board

    Mark each material shortlisted, on hold, or out, and leave a line saying why. Split the board by wall, floor, and lighting and the next step gets easier.

    Before

    Candidates lived in your head and a spreadsheet. Two weeks later you could not remember why one was dropped.

  4. 04

    Stop pushing the meeting to next week

    When a client says the wall looks a little dark, you can redraw just that wall while you are both still sitting there.

    Before

    "I'll show you the revision next week." One meeting ate a week.

  5. 05

    The next project does not start from zero

    What you chose and what you dropped, with the reasons, stay on the board. Four months later a similar brief already has answers waiting.

    Before

    When a project ended, the judgement went with it. The next one started over.

002Features

One image and one line is all it takes

Upload a reference and describe your project in a line. You get materials that fit, with the reasoning attached. Paste a link to a design magazine and it reads that too.

Materials curated with a designer's eye

Browse by material, usage, process, feature, and shape. Themed mixtapes and archives lead you to the next find.

Lay what you saved out as a mood board

Pick your materials and the samples come back laid out in one photograph. No more pulling them down one at a time to arrange by hand. Send it to a client as it is.

Draw the combination as a room

Pick a few, say where each one goes, and the combination comes back as a room. It answers whether they work together without opening a renderer. All of it drawn with materials you can actually get hold of.

Swap one surface of a photo you took

Upload a photo from site, choose the surface to change and a material to put there, and that surface comes back changed. This floor but in that material stops being something you describe and becomes something you show.

What you collect becomes your team's asset

The materials you save and the pictures you make both stay in your workspace. Your team sees them from day one, and as saves stack up, recommendations tune to your team's taste.

003Inside one material

Open one material

It is not just a name and a photograph. What you need after you like it sits on the same screen.

Take the surface image with you

Flattened head-on, so it does not sit at an angle once it is on your mood board. Files for SketchUp and D5 come along with it.

Follow a property to the next material

What makes this material itself is drawn as a map. Press one property and the list below narrows to the materials that share it.

The people who sell it are right there

Brand and supplier, address and phone number, the contact's email — all on one card. Like it, and you can call from where you are standing.

Price and dimensions are already laid out

Composition, thickness, minimum order, lead time — one sheet. These are the things you used to phone each supplier about.

004Pricing

Only what you need, kept simple.

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  • Read a reference

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  • Draw it as a room

  • Apply to a photo

  • Price · size · composition · supplier contact

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  • Deeper comparison

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