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We are happy to present two books just launched about the work of three of our Transplant Coaches. Former furniture designer, now head of the culinairy laboratory at the design school in Reims (ESAD), Marc Bretillot just released his first monography, ‘Culinaire design‘, by Thierry de Beaumont at Alternatives publishing house, which chronicles his projects of the past ten years for the food industry or in the contemporary art world. Marc’s Disappearance performance in Transplant august 2009 is published with four pages. Marc Bretillot is a Transplant Coach on the theme “Food design”.
Stoffel Kuenen presented in the May 2010 newsletter, just launched his book “Metamorphosis”(metamorphic fashion design), co-writed with Ambra Trotto. This book focuses on the Italian fashion system as an example of a sector wrought with tradition, saper fare and high quality that forms a fertile ground for a human centered application of the latest technologies in all aspects of the production chain, ranging from strategic and marketing aspects, to processes and tools of production, from materials used and sustainable strategies to the skills of the designer. The user literally and figuratively forms the center of the fashion product. Hence fashion products are presented, in which a subtile application of state-of- the-art technologies extend functional, expressive and communicative properties, resulting in metamorphic fashion.
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The products we use shape the way we view the world, the way we interact and perceive it and others. This places a delicate responsibility in the hands of me as designer, as I literally and figuratively help shape the world. Not only do the function, form and behavior of the products do so; the way they are constituted, the materials used, the manufacturing techniques, the place and thus the social circumstances of manufacture, all those in many ways frame the way a user sees himself in this world. Both authors are Transplant Coaches™. Ambra Trotto on the theme “Design & Ethics” and Stoffel Kuenen “Wearable technology & interactive products”.
Transplant is invited to Milano to talk at a Norwegian Design Event the 15th of April in the zone Tortona. The event is coordinated with the 48th edition of the 2010 Milano Furniture Fair. Organized by ANSA Italia (Association of Norwegian Students Abroad), they present: “Design Talk: Norway”, a Norwegian design event taking place during Milan Design Week 2010, Thursday, 15th of April, from 5pm-8pm. The event is organized as a cross projection between a mini-seminar and the traditional Milanese aperitivo, in other words: academic input, mingling, and food, drinks. “Design Talk: Norway“ reviews Norwegian design, production and the process from student until the professional life as a designer. The event has a particular focus on the future of young designers and the profession itself. The purpose of this event is to bring Norwegian and Italian communities together to point out the benefits of cooperation and expertise exchange, highlighting Norway as a design-nation, describing what is the contemporary situation in the Norwegian design community, and try to make some predictions for the future.
Andreas Engesvik, Ingrid Helvik, Birgitta Ralston og Atle Tveit / Photo: Pål Lothe Sæterdal
“From the deep fjords and cool office-landscapes in the far north, we have been lucky to get Birgitta Ralston from Transplant, Andreas Engesvik (from ex Norway Says), Lars Tornøe and Atle Tveit, all designers with various backgrounds, fabled projects in the suitcase, and adventurous experiences from the Norwegian and international design world. They will present projects and answer questions like: What is distinctive and unique about Norwegian design? What differences and similarities is there in the Norwegian and Italian approach and practice, and how can we benefit from each others skills and capabilities?“. Design Talk Norway, 2010.
The event and talks are held in English and during the event there will be dialogue and Q & A session with the audience. Design Talk: Norway will be held in a smashing bar called Uainbar in Via Savona 1, in the heart of the “Fuori Salone”. Come along and join us!!!
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Innovation within composites is the theme of the next Material Afternoon by Nordic Materials in April in northern Finland. Organized by the Upper-Savo Development Ltd., this lecture includes a prospective report, presentation of real innovative material samples and a debate around the specific theme “Composites”. The Material Afternoon is hold by Alexandre Bau the 22nd of April in Iisalmi in Finland.
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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 adjusted in relation to the country hosting the games. .
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Beyond the discussion of design, medal seems to become a symbolic identity, with a delicate and singular approach deeply anchored into local history and rituals, which is interesting compared to the universal concept of Olympic Games; it gives a tribal aspect to the object, in addition to these evident honors values. Design Boom wrote an interesting article on this unique medals, designed and made by the Royal Canadian Mint (check the all making of).
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 between Bulgarian and Norwegian companies. Birgitta Ralston and four other entrepreneurs have been selected to travel to Sofia from Norway to participate to the event.
Transplant also join the Fjaler Municipality to meet with the west Norway Brussels office in the beginning of March. The mission of the Office is to make our region visible in Europe and provide and two-ways flow of information with EU.
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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. The restaurant also caught the eye of a publisher, including it in the “New bars and restaurants 2″ book. The book is made by Loft PublicationsHarper Collins and will include several pages showing the interior of Sous les Cerisiers. The book will be on the market in approx. summer 2010.
The Deco Journal first published the Parisian restaurant last November. Now the South Korean publisher has featured the Hagen Flagship Showroom on eight pages.
in the December issue. The new year started great as the Norwegian daily newspaper Dagbladet chose Ralston & Bau/Transplant to be one of “50 things, places, people and trends we believe in 2010″, worldwide! The list was presented on January the 3rd, and Ralston & Bau/Transplant was nr 21, displayed on one whole page before the national museum in Roma.
In the middle of January Alexandre returned to Mikkeli, Finland to open the brand new material exhibition C(h)ameleon in combination with a specific Material Afternoon named C(h)ange. This brought three publications in finnish magazines as a result: in Maaseudun tulevaisuus, Länsi-Savo and Viikkoset.
In February look out for ELLE Interiør special green issue. Read Ralston & Bau’s point of view according to sustainable design.
. Lately Asian 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. In the January 2010 issue the Hagen Flagship Showroom will be published as well.
The Japanese press has also showed interest for the restaurant design and it was published in october in the lifestyle magazine, “PEN”.
After the introduction of the Sur Un Arbre Perché restaurant published in the “New French Restaurant Design” book, the Chinese Shenzhen Chuangyang Cultural Dissemination Co., Ltd, that is one of the largest publishing houses of architectural and decoration books, will soon dedicate several pages to Sous les Cerisiers and Hagen Showroom. The magazine “Public Interior Space” published in April 2010 makes the start with a 4-page-presentation of Studio Hagen.
The Norwegian is also featuring Ralston & Bau with articles about the Permanent Installation in Måltidets Hus in the december issue of “Maison Mat & Vin” and the Hagen showroom in “Design Interiør”.
Congratulations to Kystvilt who got a honorable mention in the competition of the taste of Norway! Kystvilt offers a rich range of meat products from fresh meat to salted and smoked sausages, all done in a one-man-company. The deer rumpsteak of Kystvilt made the run in the project of “Norway’s meal”. The meat gets it’s special flavour from the blueberry plant, that the wild deer feeds on. Ralston & Bau designed the Kystvilt profile in 2006 and the product packaging; rough textile straps and bags to add real hunter feeling for the customers. .
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There is some small things which makes us smiling, we got on of it recently: in the middle of the ICON product pages of the November issue 2009 you’ll find our “Tekannelampe” limited collection featured. You can only buy it from our design shop here in Transplant together with other redesign series. Please contact us if you would like to be the happy owner of one of these unique objects. We can ship it to you!
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Ralston & Bau work with material innovation to make their new products and interior sustainable, we are also interested in looking at how old objects can be transformed into contemporary designs.
In September 2009 Birgitta Ralston was asked to make a concept and trend research about the business of redesign for Fretex as part of it was the vision of the future of their re-design development. A variety of possible future scenarios including ways of realisation was presented. During the meeting re-design object samples made by Ralston & Bau where presented, showing that to re-use objects putting them in a new context, makes not only a sustainable impact, it also gives new life to objects that tell a story.
The last years the studio has collaborated with Fretex (norwegian salvation army) under the initiative of Katarina Grønmyr to create re-designs made out of collected objects. One of the first products Ralston & Bau designed is the “Tekannelampe” (tea pot light), just published in the Fretex Krigsropet magazine. To see more re-designs click here or fetch the November issue of the ICON magazine in the store: “Tekannelampe” is published there, too.
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Paris 2.0 conference in Paris the 23/09/09: real and virtual places that facilitate collaborative innovation
Birgitta Ralston was invited to talk about Transplant and it’s cross competence arena at Paris 2.0.
The “online Communities”‘ (clients, fans, collaborators, developers, start-ups, suppliers, etc.)are becoming structured thanks to more and more adapted solutions (generation of ideas, debates, problemsolving, networking, webinars). Virtual spaces also becomes places to innovate and to collaborate outside and inside the firm.
In real life, a new types of places appear, permanent or ephemeral, that by their structure and their environment inspire creativity and collaboration,
or even unforeseen meetings between competences that seem distant.
The actors of innovation and of creativity continue searching the ingredients and the ideal format:with competences, methodology of a process,
management of time, the PLACE, virtual or real, what role does it have to play?
Below you can view the whole session that we participated to (in french). Pay attention to the very interesting lecture of Julien Dossier working on concrete sustainable projects for the city of Paris.
A few weeks ago, Paul Lewthwaite from Nottingham in the UK, went to buy his daily newspaper and discovered something we already knew but, were delighted to hear from a good friend. The internationally distributed and renowned design magazine “Design from Scandinavia” had featured a double page spread on Transplant, Nordic Materials and the Ralston&Bau design studio.
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We are happy to announce that our packaging design for Kystvilt and the identity we created for Driftig will be published in the next Design and Design book of the year volume two. The book will be available from December 2009.
“Sur un Arbre Perché”, the parisian restaurant Ralston & Bau designed in 2003 has been selected and published as one of the most unique restaurants in the world in the international book published “Extreme Restaurants” by Tectum Editions.
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“SWING SEAT RESTAURANT
Poetry in motion, France:
The name of this restaurant refers to the title of a famous fable by Jean de la Fontaine, about a fox that using flattery succeeds in tricking a piece of cheese from a raven who sits high in a tree. There is also something mythical about dining at Sur Un Arbre Perché. The inspired interior of this Parisian restaurant is dominated by a stylized white tree, with branches that fan out over the ceiling. Here you can either eat in one of the swing seats that are fixed to the ceiling with cables, or hidden in one of the comfortable wooden nests that are fixed at various heights or deep in one of the cushion filled chairs. The lighting fixtures are made of wire that is shaped to look like birds nests. The service is young and efficient and the kitchen is fresh and inventive.” Extreme Restaurant, Tectum.
The Sur Un Arbre Perché restaurant was designed by Ralston & Bau in 2003 with inspiration for the project coming from a French fable. After six succesful years in Paris, the restaurant will now be introduced to a whole new part of the world through the publication of a new book showcasing the best of French restaurant design. “New French Restaurant Design” will be published and commercially available throughout China from May 2009 and then from September 2009 in France. Bon profit.
© 2010 Culinaire Design / by Marc Bretillot.
© 2010 Culinaire Design / by Marc Bretillot.
© 2010 / Editor: Stoffel Kuenen / Co Author: Ambra Trotto.
© “Salone Internazionale del Mobile”/ from the 14th to the 19th of April 2010.
© Royal Canadian Mint 2010
© 2010 Norwegian Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria
© 2010 Photography by Ralston & Bau. Public Interior Space from China, April 2010.
“Sur un Arbre Perché”, the parisian restaurant Ralston & Bau designed in 2003 has been selected and published as one of the most unique restaurants in the world in the international book published “Extreme Restaurants” by 
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