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Creating meaning and competitive projects

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Audit & Vision

“You don´t transmit what you want, you just transmit who you are.” (Jean Jaurès). This is essential to keep in mind for companies considering a design development. Finding the right direction and attaining the set goal requires to understand and define, who you are. The Ralston & Bau strategical workshops, from a designer’s perspective, offer an analysis of your company’s products and services including a presentation of relevant trends, product and market research using the SWOT and the Blue Ocean strategy tool. A strategical look into your company’s present, future, structure, design and market possibilities are often the first step in this process. Our goal is to create with you a strong vision for your company with a clear track for your future product, profile and project.

Our offer includes:
- company analysis
- strategy coaching and workshop
- trend, product and market research
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Concept Development

We believe successful products have a strong story behind them. At Ralston & Bau, we are inspired by human environments and rituals. Accordingly it is our passion and mission to explore the very unique stories that resides inside your company and your vision. We look at social movements and trends to guide your project in the right direction. Ralston & Bau are committed to create individual concepts that will make your company and your product stand out. Concept development sets the important choices for the future of your project.

Our offer includes:
- company and project analysis
- trend & market analysis
- concept development
- concept visualization
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Interior Design

Each interior design defines space, its own special character and story. Stories which can reflect a private person as well as a company and it’s products. An interior design can change our mood and even our behavior. It can be the reason why we choose a hotel or a restaurant. It surrounds us in our everyday live. At Ralston & Bau, we pay close attention to shape spaces in which the users needs and an individual, unique environment unite. In our interior design process we combine our design, material and market knowledge with space planning and architectural drawing.

Our offer includes:
- interior planning
- 3D visualization
- interior styling
- architectural drawings
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Product Design

We live each day surrounded by hundreds of products. The message and usability they transmit are the core values of their producer. We are aware of these values. Therefore, we work with you to define the unique values that should be reflected in your product as well as the high demand on usability. From the first sketch, to scale models and right up to the finished product, Ralston & Bau, when needed our material library Nordic Materials and our engineer partner Shape are your allies in the industrial product development.

Our offer includes:
- sketch and 3D visualization
- model making - prototyping
- strength analysis
- production drawings
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Furniture Design

From the bed in which we sleep, to the table on which we work and the chair on which we sit, furnitures are an important part of our live. The way rituals and Metatrends will influence how people use their furnitures, the demands of our body in relationship to it and your personal story as a company behind, is the departure point for us at Ralston & Bau, to create an individual piece of furniture. Through our innovative material library Nordic Materials, it makes it possible for us to have access to the most innovative materials and production processes in furniture manufacturing. From analyzing your needs, to prototyping and finally the finished furniture piece, Ralston & Bau will be your partner in creating a valuable design.

Our offer includes:
- sketch and 3D visualization
- material research
- model making
- prototyping
- strength analysis
- production drawings
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Profiling

The way we present ourselves is the way people perceive us as an individual and as a group. The process of profiling is an abstract way of expressing the individual values of a company or a service. Working in a large range of fields from communities to industrial groups, Ralston & Bau finds for each profiling mission an unique graphic language guaranteeing that your image will look like no other. Ralston & Bau develop with you the tools to communicate. Our knowledge in graphic design, illustrations and web design makes it possible to support you and your company in each step of your communication.

Our offer includes:
- profile coaching
- logotype
- visual identity
- graphic design
- illustrations
- web design
- packaging design