Marijn van der Poll (1973) grew up in the Middle and Far East, graduating from the Design Academy in Eindhoven in 2002. He has over ten years experience as a product designer and is co-founder of vanderPolloffice, a multidisciplinary design studio. His author based work has been displayed at galleries and museums around the world and is part of the collections of amongst others MOMA and the Victoria& Albert Museum. Marijn is also a design lecturer. His work has been published in leading magazines such as TIME and Domus.

As part of the Creative Industry Scientific Research Programme (CRISP), he is involved in the Grey But Mobile project.