Category Archives: Places
Some of our favourite places in the world
Siècle Colours – East Dulwich
Loving this new paint shop that is in East Dulwich.
Simple yet imaginative design that showcases the products but with a twist of humour.
Click here to visit their website
Contact Details
53 Grove Vale
London
SE22 8EQ
Telephone 020 7207 1120
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Toast – Marylebone High St – London
Here are a couple of neat ideas for window product description and pricing using ticker tape and scrabble pieces; seen in the window of fashion and home store Toast.
PS
Also like the exterior planting and seating.
Diptyque – Marlebone High St – London
Todays Marylebone High St store is Diptyque. Why? Because I love the simple yet powerful use of the yellow transparent film on the glass; which gives them a really strong stand out and attraction factor. Yet on closer inspection it’s not simple at all as they have layered in a LED outline of a perfume bottle and hands holding a real bottle. I like the way the use of this grabs your attention and focuses your eye on the tiny product. Very clever.
The Natural Kitchen – Marylebone – London
The second of this weeks Marylebone stores is the amazing The Natural Kitchen. This store is not only packed full of amazing products but they are beautifully displayed. The store is cleverly designed to look like it hasn’t been designed, but rather naturally growing out of an eclectic mix of fixtures, up cycled furniture and a dash of fun.
Here are a selection of photos of the store and a link to their website.
Conran – Marylebone High St – London
I had a walk down Marylebone High Street last week and I have to say the place is brimming with great windows and some fabulous new stores. So all this week my posts are going to be showing you some of my favourites.
We start with The Conran Shop, which never disappoints. Their windows showcase a number of room settings framed within a simple black frames; Allowing the product to shine.
Vintage books have been used throughout the store in various ways to visually enhance products.
I love this company they are so inventive, creating simple, clever visual displays yet never overpowering the products.
Anthropologie Edinburgh
Firstly apologies for no post yesterday, I have had problems with my internet connection.
Todays post is about one of my favourite retail companies Anthropologie. I was in Edinburgh the other week and popped into their new store, which is their third in the UK.
As usual they did not disappoint, the store was packed full of visual features and fabulous ideas.
I’ll let the photos do the talking.
Thank you Anthropologie for creating truly amazing stores, I look forward to seeing your next one.
California Retail: Trends and Details « FRCH | Creative Fuel
On a recent journey to the west coast I saw some interesting trends in retail developments and some well thought out details.
The Lab advertises itself as the anti-mall and focuses on flexible outdoor areas for the community, where store spaces blend together and people congregate and socialise. The bricks and mortar stores and restaurants share the environment with several retro teardrop style trailers that have been beautifully restored as rolling pop-up shops. The variety of formats and carefully selected merchandise create a wonderfully organic shopping experience that is filled with surprises.
Click the link below to read the full article and see some other great photos.
California Retail: Trends and Details « FRCH | Creative Fuel.
Thankyou Creative Fuel for another great blog.
Photo Credits: Lab Sign by Idear, Lab Directional by Cathie Hong
Urban Outfitters Oxford St London March 2012
Urban Outfitters on London’s Oxford St are undergoing some alterations to the store. Unlike most other retailers that just hoard areas of the store that they are working on with boring screens, Urban Outfitters embrace the disruption and turn the scaffolding into visual features.
Even when they are in the throes of development, they are still so creative and always come up with simple imaginative ways to display products and communicate with customers.
Here are a selection of photos of the store and windows.
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London News Company – Gatwick Airport North Terminal
W H Smith have unveiled a new look for their airport stores at Gatwick’s North Terminal. They have rebranded the store as London News Company and the bookshop as London Book Company.
The design is bold, simple and less cluttered.
The store has been cut into three distinct areas. The Newsagents to one side, the bookshop to the other side and a large payment area in the middle.
They have chosen a very simple mix of bold colours against a black backdrop.
The signage is kept to a minimum but is very strong which helps you quickly navigate to the area of the shop you want to get to. the font chosen for the logo is typically newsy in style.
They have kept many of their successful features like the honesty payment system for papers, Richard and Judy’s book club and a dedicated area to promote their Kobo e reader.
The fixtures are vertically the same but now in black. They have also used some simple line drawing graphics of key London landmarks on till barriers and focal walls.
Here are a selection of photos of the store.
