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Signage design for public building

Storehagen Atrium, a 5000 m2 large governmental building, open it's doors to the public in Førde, Norway. Constructed by Futurum, the building hosts the national Lotteri/Stiftelsestilsynet and the regional Cultural Department among other public institutions. After a competition by invitation, Ralston & Bau w[...]

September News & Events

In the middle of August Transplant was transformed into a "cool kitchen" by Kvik. A team of 7 persons and extensive equipment came from Denmark for the shooting of the Kvik 2011 kitchen collection. We also thank Skigutene to select Transplant in front of any exciting capital, for their Bula design work sessio[...]

Lehanneur point of view

Our mission at Nordic Materials is to collect knowledge about material technologies and processes that have the potential to evolve your design and production sustainably, formally and functionally. In our materials updates, like this one, you can read our point of view about a special theme. This time, we br[...]

“Longer Participation” designs on show

The 14th of August 2010, Transplant opened the exhibition of the first Ideal Lab´theme; Longer Participation. Longer Participation is locating design taking as a departure point the social challenge of the western world, that the elder generation might become bigger than the present working generation.

August News & Events

The last summer month and businesses returning from holiday, makes August a busy month in Transplant! In August Transplant is booked for Coaching Days and workshops and privatising of the space for an advertising campaign photo shoot. Last month the designers and artist selected for Ideal Lab´/ Longer partic[...]

Scenography for NSB

NSB and the PLT Innovation Lab' chose Ralston & Bau to create the scenography and identity for the NSB Leader conference in May 2010. NSB is the public Norwegian train transport company.

Speculative design

The British design duo James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau, both Transplant Coaches in Speculative Design and Robotics, take part in the Ideal Lab´ theme Longer Participation. The 26th of July 2010 they held a lecture on their work, with focus on the project "Afterlife".

Ad campaign shooting in Transplant

Inspired by the landscape and contemporary building, Kvik chose Transplant as the scenery for showing their collections in the next advertising campaign. In August a team of 6 people will transform the Transplant wing into a kitchen space, which is of course ... cool!

One more sandwich ?

Such a big family of composites, and with such an array of applications. They are present both in our bodies and in space, they invaded the entire world. Like in Gattaca where the doctors preselected the genes to create perfect men, we mix materials to obtain a wholesomeness of qualities hard to match without[...]

July news & events

The Nordic holiday month is here and we hope that you are enjoying the summer so far! In June Transplant received the Nordic Material partners of Denmark, Svend-Erik Nissen and Finland, Kari Kuhmonen to develop a commune Nordic strategy for transmitting knowledge about material innovation in 2010-2013.

Ideal Lab´Longer Participation

From a certain age, humans can be left outside of the community as well as from an economic standpoint. In this program Transplant asks: “How can we make the older generation participate longer in the community?”.

Design for the Vestnes Group

In June 2010 the Vestnes Group chose the designers Ralston & Bau to develop a new client segment with an interior collection and the design the group's profile.

Grounded

Here we are, in the summertime! Sometime we exchange our leather sandals for rubber boots and walk in puddles instead of sand. Unlike Gene Kelly in Singin’ in the Rain, we take small steps. The analogy of the cartoon banana skin is not so far, the slightest inattention can provoke a fatal fall.

Smart Denmark

Often, a drawing is better than a long speech. This time, three videos are better than a long speech / including Alexandre Bau/Nordic Materials contribution to Smart Conference in Denmark, 2009.

June events

The summer is here and soon we are the 23rd of June is Midsummer, the longest day of the year. If you are organizing strategical meetings or a design development, do as NTE; book the space and have a work process in Transplant

NTE strategical innovation workshop

NTE is an energy company from northern Norway. Since a period of several months NTE have gone through a strategic process coached by Truls Paulsen and Mads Bruun Høy. The work has resulted in several innovative business ideas for the future of renewable energy.

Just let the sun shine

If we could catch the energy emitted by the sun during one hour, we could supply all of humanity needs for one year. So the postulate is simple: we need to shift all our fossil energy needs to renewable ones. Governments and dedicated people know this fact since decades. But now you know it too. As reminder,[...]

Signage design for Storehagen Atrium

In september 2010, Storehaugen Atrium, a 5000 m2 large governmental building, will open it's doors to the public in Førde, Norway. Now under construction by Futurum, the national Stiftelse og Lotteritilsynet and the regional Cultural Department, among other institutions, will invest the premises.

Book launch by Transplant Coaches

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[...]