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Tribe Medals

. Birgitta Ralston has been interviewed by the Norwegian radio NRK P1 about the particular design of Olympic Winter Games 2010 of Vancouver medals. The interview aired on Monday 08 mars 2010 put emphasis on the fact that the medals, game after game developed its own identity, more personal, each time adjuste[...]

Sustainable Hotel Design

Ralston & Bau are in the beginning of a new project: to design a 500 m2 hotel on the west coast of Norway. Our challenge and mission is to create a special place close to the values of our client; authentic living, foods and sustainability. The Ralston & Bau design studio is commissioned for concept develop[...]

March 2010 events

March is all about materials. Sign on and meet furniture producers and designers the 18th of March at the opening of the C(h)ameleon exhibition, showing 68 biomimicry inspired materials. Transplant is also welcoming a PhD student from Denmark, studying textiles with architecture.

Matchmaking in Sofia, Bulgaria

The 8th of March the Norwegian Embassy in Sofia organize a Partnership for Development seminar. The aim of this event is to help chart the way forward for female entrepreneurship by debating the issues from the perspectives of experienced female entrepreneurs and to create profitable business cooperation be[...]

Insulately

Norway is beautiful, and cold, and beautiful, and cold. But beautiful. But cold. We searched our resources to identify innovative solutions and decently environmental on insulating materials. As we know you are busy, the nominated material & process for "Best Insulation 2010" are...

18/03 C(h)ameleon exhibition at Transplant

Join furniture producers and designers discovering the latest material innovation in Transplant in a prospective session of advanced technologies. We propose to look at how objects can reinvent themselves and break the monotony. Dead, dull and colourless environments could become things of the past.

Towards brighter days in Transplant

Though it's still icy outside, the days are getting lighter, pushing businesses in the direction of a fresh start to the year. Transplant and Dale is one of the first places on the west coast that catches the spring and possibly one of the most urban spaces in Norway to host your meeting.

Fair design

In this beginning of the year Ralston & Bau has been asked to apply profiling designs on a series of small communication tools, such as cups, t-shirts and banners for the fair stand of Driftig.no Sogn og Fjordane's Internet platform for education and businesses.

Ralston & Bau design in Wallpaper

Last year ended with high visibility as Ralston & Bau's restaurant design was shown in the worldwide known design and interior magazine Wallpaper. The Parisian restaurant Sous les Cerisiers was highlighted in the December issue.

“Home” projected at Transplant

Transplant is projecting publicly the unique and essential movie of Yann Arthus Bertrand "HOME". You are all invited to share this non only beautiful check point on our planet but to awake conscience. Family are invited and expected. The movie is in english.

Happy New Year 2010!

Welcome back everybody. We hope that you had relaxing holidays and are full of inspiration for whatever you wish to do. We want to take the opportunity on this first day of the year thank you: dear clients and partners - for the great projects and special moments we had in 2009! We look forward seeing you[...]

AccessA, Australia

AccessA is Australia's National Network for infertile patients. They support families which need knowledge and assistance on the path of getting a child. Handling this delicate subject, AccessA s' aim is to inform and give a helping hand.

Sharing good ideas for 2010 #1

Innovation is to make new things with old ones? yes, it sounds like it. I don't believe human beings are intrinsically able to be part of a real creation process. Understand me well: we are creative with what we get but not capable of generating from chaos a tangible matter. Could you create water, the con[...]

Sharing good ideas for 2010 #2

Making good, being real: food from Stockholm. As the local food trend is hitting the supermarkets and delicatessens with fabricated authenticity around the European cities, it is really fresh to stumble on some casual yet followed through concepts. Birgitta went to Stockholm this fall and discovered some f[...]

Material Afternoon “C(h)ange”

© Nordic Materials / Matti Kilpiäinen discovering “Sensitile”, Mikkeli University . Miktech Ltd. in Finland is the first stop of the C(h)ameleon material exhibition tour starting the second week of January 2010, for two weeks. The exhibition will be available to rent in the Nordic region until J[...]

Candle-in-the-leg

We like to redesign old objects, but this is no news for you. The news is our new redesign series: we literally sticked a candle in the leg...

December events

In december you can join many events & happenings in Transplant as well as finding that special gift: the 19th ISGLEM concert with Karl Seglem and Terje Isungset, christmas café and Transplant Sparkling Party with fireworks at the New years eve...

Ralston & Bau gets attention in Asia

Lately Japanese, South Korean and Chinese publishers and media are showing interest in the work of Ralston & Bau. In november the "DECO Journal", a South Korean design and interior magazine, featured the Sous les Cerisiers restaurant on six pages, describing details of the interior design and profiling...

Ideal Lab: research program 2010

Transplant receive national funding for Ideal Lab. From 2010 Ideal Lab, a new research program involving contemporary art and design starts in Transplant. Ideal Lab takes the departure point in society shifts like the aging of the western world population and waste of food...