Transplant is a design and business centre which allows you to go from idea to final concept without wasting time. A creative plateform with room for exhibitions, seminars and meetings, a place for small and grand occasions alike. Our tools for design and product development – the material library and the prototype workshop - are unique resources at your disposal.

The building, which is designed by architect Attila Eris (known for example for his work with Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, on appointment by Renzo Piano), covers 600 m2 and is situated at the banks of the intimate and beautiful Dalsfjorden. Transplant is an invitation to meet, discover, think, sense and be surprised.

Concept / interior design / facade design / visual identity: Ralston & Bau (http://www.ralstonbau.com)
Architect: Attila Eris

Public opening: June 2007
Creative opening: September 2007

The Cycle of Mutation - Transcreative program 2007 - 2009 Transplant is a platform where design, art, music and new materials work in unison. Here is room for the freedom of thought, experimentation and adventures involving all human senses in an unique surrounding.

Emergence 28.09.07 > 15.02.08
Growth 29.02.08 > 31.07.08
Maturation sept 08 > jan 09
Disappearance feb 09 - jul 09

see more at www.transplant.nu

Photos made by Vegard Fimland http://vegardfimland.com

HARDCORE exhibition is organized by Design Forum Finland, the Consulate General of Finland in New York and the Finnish Cultural Institute in New York, and presented in collaboration with the Meatpacking District Initiative and Abe NYC, Inc. HARDCORE is supported by Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Digital Society, the Greater Helsinki Promotion, Finlandia Vodka, the Finnish Tourist Board, Genelec, IcelandAir, Helsinki City Tourist and Convention Bureau, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Ministry of Education in Finland, and The National Council for Design.
New York Magazine is the official media sponsor
www.hardcoredesign.net

“Hardcore is used to refer to an extreme dedication to a specific activity or to something more intense than the regular mainstream. It can also be understood as the most authentic part or the essential core of something. As such, it can be used to characterize Finnish design.”
– Curator, Ilkka suppanen

The exhibition showcases projects by
Noa Bembibre
Fokus Fabrik
Jaana and Päivi Haaksiluoto
Kokoro & Moi
koneHelsinki
Harri Koskinen
Yrjö Kukkapuro and Henrik Enbom
Janne Kyttänen
Hannu Kähönen
Mikko Laakkonen
Kristiina Lassus
Arihiro Miyake
Mikko Paakkanen
Pentagon Design
Provoke Design
Anne Kyyrö Quinn
Anna Ruohonen
Stepan Sarpaneva
Tonfisk Design
HARDCORE lounge is hosted by major Finnish design companies Iittala, Artek and Marimekko

Hardcore new finnish design
may 17–19, 2008
413–415 West 14th Street,
New York, NY 10014
(Between 9th Ave and Washington St)
Hours Saturday, May 17 12–5 pm, Sunday, May 18 12–8 pm, Monday, May 19 12–6 pm

Calls for Urban Screens Melbourne 08 – film&video, multimedia projects and poster presentations

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 Conference “mobile publics” 3 – 5 October 2008 Multimedia exhibition 3 – 8 October 2008 www.urbanscreens08.net

Deadline for submission (poster presentations): 24. May 2008 Deadline for submission (fim&video/projects): 31. May 2008

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen.

CALL FOR FILM&VIDEO and MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS ********************

The Urban Screens 08 exhibition is looking for Artists, Urban Poets, Filmmakers and Multimedia and Interaction Designers to submit film and videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen based projects. A large diverse urban screens infrastructure is available at Federation Square.

Criteria

We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects that interrogate screen media as a medium| content and tackle the festival’s key themes of issues of building community and sustainability in relation to water. These two complex themes aim to provoke discussion and spark questions such as: What is community in times of the high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? How can we explore the diversity of water, an element, essential to the existence of life on earth?

For a detailed description of the event and curatorial framework see www.urbanscreens08.net/art-+-events For a detailed description of Fed Squares infrastructure see www.urbanscreens08.net/technical

The projects should preferably employ one or more of the listed existing infrastructure of urban screens of Fed Square and should consider and adapt to the special circumstances of outdoor public spaces, transforming urban spaces to foster dialogue and community engagement. We are looking for:

A) Film and video such as

• Video art, text art, animation, animated slideshows, or fictional advertisements and community information (under 3 min.)
• Silent works especially for the joint broadcasting or daily screenings in-between (under 3 min.)
• Short experimental films, documentary and journalistic content (under 15 min.)
• Small curated programs of the mentioned type of works

B) Interactive, performance based or participatory projects such as

• Interactive software applications for urban screens
• Participatory community projects using creative digital practices
• Live media art merging performance and new media
• Community displays for education and exchange
• Virtual/real world hybrid projects using streaming content
• Real-time generated content
• Screen related sound experiments
• Digital storytelling projects
• Mobile games using urban space as social and educative playground
• Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban screens

CALL FOR POSTERS ********************

To bridge the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition, we are looking for posters about the latest development of Urban Screens. They will be displayed in a public exhibition in the Atrium next to the conference venue. Conference will be encouraged to get in exchange with the authors during the breaks. Eight submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These are equiped with an integrated screen, which offer the possibility to present remotely via scheduled skype sessions, while the audience gathers in groups around them.

Criteria

Posters are aimed at presenting the latest development in this interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. Posters are ideal for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects, drawing important conclusions from practical experiments, for giving an introduction to innovative art works or new practical design applications, reports on cutting edge technologies and content management systems under development.

Posters will be reviewed by the Poster Committee, soon to be announced. Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page summary for publication in the conference proceedings. Selected submissions will also be published on-line on the International Urban Screens Association website.

APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL ********************

Please have a look at the detailed calls and the official online forms for application, available at: http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects

CONTACT

exhibition@urbanscreens.net
(please use the subject “USM08 - question concerning the CALL”)

MAJOR EXHIBITION SPONSORS

International Urban Screens Association - www.urbanscreens.net Fed Square Pty Ltd - www.federationsquare.com Barco ‘visibly yours’ - www.barco.com Circus - www.circusexp.com Pinnacle ‘Production Services’ - www.pinnacleps.com.

Within 3 years, WIF (Webdesign International Festival) stood out as the main event for Webdesign enthusiasts; whether they are professionals or amateurs.

This international festival is an occasion for revealing talents. Not less than 40 teams made up of the best webdesigners in the world brought together in the heart of Limousin to have a 24hours of non-stop competition.

The online preselections are taking place in less than a month, on January 18, 2008, before the great finale in Limoges from 17 to 19 April. Hurry up!

Link: WIF

The imm 2008 is an international furniture fair featuring more than 1,300 exhibitors from about 60 countries. Top exhibitors, international design stars and creative newcomers are providing settings that will showcase the interiors of tomorrow. imm cologne presents an overview of the entire furnishings and design market.

From January 14th until 20th DESIGNSPOTTER will show their collection of exhibitors in the heart of the imm 2008 to a wide audience of experts and visitors.

Link: DesignSpotter.com - Modern contemporary design

Have a seat at Nordic design show : Arts Weekend : Features : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) It has been quite a while since the Nordic style of design, which had its key formative years from the late 1940s to the 1960s in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark, started gaining popularity in Japan. Initially coinciding with a boom in midcentury furniture, the popularity of Nordic design has never subsided in this country.

Nordic Modernism: Design and Crafts, which will start Saturday at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, will provide a good opportunity to find out what the Nordic style really is. It also may offer a clue to the question of why the designs are being greatly welcomed in this faraway country whose culture and climate are so very different.

“We will look back to the so-called golden era of Nordic modernism by dividing exhibits into three groups and showing them largely chronologically. Visitors will find not only designs, including those that already are familiar to them, but also the history and culture behind them through the exhibits,” said Shihoko Iida, a curator at the gallery.

According to Iida, Nordic modernism was established as the strength of the designs was passed on to nations outside the region in a gradual manner via the United States and Britain, as the two major economic powers in the 1970s and 80s actively imported them.

“Nordic Modernism: Design and Crafts” will be held from Nov. 3 to Jan. 14 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays) at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Hatsudai, Tokyo. Admission: 1,000 yen for adults, 800 yen for university and high school students and 600 yen for middle and primary school students. Closed on Dec. 29-Jan. 3, as well as Mondays except for Dec. 24 and Jan. 14. For more information, visit www.operacity. jp/ag.

read more at DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE

Salvador Dalí - Surrealist! 3.10.-16.12.2007 The Salvador Dalí – Surrealist! exhibition provides a comprehensive overview of the art and person of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989).

The exhibition presents paintings, drawings and watercolours produced by Salvador Dalí over a period of sixty years. Dalí painted his first Surrealist work at the end of the 1920s. The exhibition includes a series of water colour illustrations produced by Dalí in 1945 for Benvenuto Cellini’s autobiography. Dalí’s interest in the scientific and technical axis of time constituted a recurring motif in his work. By adapting several scientific discoveries in his art Dalí also created his own individual style.

We have wrote about talented photographer Uzi Varon in our blog. His Double Exposure project was shown in Helsinki last January and is booked to Tampere for next fall and then to Helsinki again on March 2007.

Thanks to Uzi, he published today the project on his website, and we now able to enjoy it online.

The project contain 27 images made from two photographs taken in Israel and Finland. Compared together these pictures giving amazing and sometimes really moving effect. The music by Jason Carter adding dramatic effect to the show. Worth to take some time for looking.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (France) designed showroom for Kvadrat in Stockholm. It opened in February.

At this time they developed a new product : the “Tiles”. Textile modules made of fabric and foam that can be assembled together to build hanging walls.

Designers :: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec

Via trucdesign