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Aesop
Love this window, so simple, so effective.
Also note the free sample bottles in the wooden box attached to the window.
Photo by Hip Shops
Warehouse, London – www.retailstorewindows.com:
If one glances around town right now there’s a good indication that Summer is on its way. From Tiffany to Topshop and across to Mulberry and Warehouse, floral ‘stuff’ in all of their permutations are almost covering their window spaces. This scheme here of course is particularly effective with just about everything repeated from the product itself. This is also a brave move by this mid range retailer and a good indication of the confidence they they have in their product but also so refreshing to finally see some differentiation from their competitors, don’t you think?.
www.retailstorewindows.com: Warehouse, London.
Biscuiteers
Love love love this company
Visit their amazing store at
Biscuiteers Boutique and Icing Cafe
194 Kensington Park Road, London, W11 2ES
Visit their fabulous website
Material Lab – London
WELCOME TO MATERIAL LAB – YOUR PERSONAL MATERIALS STUDIO, DESIGNED WITH YOU IN MIND.
A vibrant & exciting place for the architecture & design community, where you’re free to explore hundreds of different materials for your projects. A place where you can find out about the latest trends & innovations, get expert advice & be inspired.
MATERIAL LAB WAS CREATED BY AWARD-WINNING JOHNSON TILES, THE UK’S LARGEST MANUFACTURER AND IMPORTER OF CERAMIC WALL & FLOOR TILES.
The Stoke-on-Trent based company created Material Lab purely to answer the needs of the architectural and design community, asking what sort of ‘experience’ they wanted in a design resource studio. The solution was Material Lab, which opened its doors in January 2006.
Thanks to Johnson Tiles, Material Lab has become an established design resource studio in London where people can explore and be inspired by a huge range of materials, such as ceramics, glass, wallpaper, wood, carpet tiles, eco-resins and fabrics.
Click here to visit there website
Fat Face | Retail display furniture portfolio
Fat Face, the lifestyle clothing brand that produces clothing for men, women & kids, has recently opened a store on the impressive new retail balcony at London Waterloo, the railway terminus and London Underground complex. As the central hub for daily commuters and tourists, Waterloo is a pivotal location for the brand, so the need to create a visually impactful store that captures the very essence of the brand was paramount. To achieve this Fat Face enlisted the help of Andy Thornton and their Urban Vintage collection, for visual merchandising inspiration and retail display equipment.
Using innovative clothing displays designed by Fat Face Visual Merchandising Team, Andy Thornton helped to develop the bespoke fixtures and bring the designs to life. Heavy industrial steel fittings, with reclaimed timber shelving, have been blended perfectly with the rustic natural timber columns, beams, boarding and floorboards that provide the fabric of the building.
Simple yet functional T-Stands have been used throughout, as well as Andy Thornton’s popular and extremely versatile industrial shelving units. These can be adjusted to a number of positions, even folded to make a table, so that they can be used for clothes, footwear and accessories. A three-tier trolley in an eye-catching antique turquoise patina, provides the perfect display for hats, scarves and bags.
1930s-style French café side chairs finished in antique cream have been dotted around the store, for customers to sit on, whilst others have been cleverly utilized for displaying outfits on seated mannequins.
As well as using standard products from the range, Fat Face also commissioned Andy Thornton to develop and manufacture an exclusive suite of versatile single and split-level display tables and A-frames. These make use of rough-sawn reclaimed pine legs with timber shelves made from old floorboards. The steel brackets and shelf frames have a distressed finish with the cream top coat wiped to reveal a brown base coat.
Andy Thornton also supplied some of their industrial factory-style lighting, simple dome-shaped steel pendants in a pewter finish, above the till points.
With over 200 stores across the UK and Ireland, Fat Face plans to continue using the Urban Vintage furniture and lighting from Andy Thornton for future new store openings and refurbishments around the country.
Click the link below to read teh full article and see lots more photos.
Fat Face | Retail display furniture portfolio.
Click this link to see the full range of reproduction vintage furniture
Artilleriet – Gothenburg- via Hip Shops
Artilleriet
19, Magasinsgatan
Live-Eclectic, Artilleriet creates atmospheres to be captivated in. They provide a dynamic and diverse collection of home furnishings, furniture, and accessories. The range consists of an exclusive blend of classic vintage and contemporary products. Some of the brands presented at Artilleriet: Comme des Garçons, Hay, Aesop, Astier de Villatte, John Derian NY, No Early Birds, Maison Martin Margiela, Society Limonta, Gubi, Tom Dixon, Lampe Gras, Alexander Wang, Mad et Len, Fermob, Gervasoni.
Mon – Fri: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sat: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sun: 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.
http://www.hipshops.com/gothenburg/shops/308/artilleriet
Doodle Window Schemes
I love doodles hand painted windows, typography etc, people make creating doodles look so easy, but alas we know its hard to create amazing pictures this way.
Here are a few examples of some store windows have have been doodled.
Here are some great doodle graphic ideas to inspire you to get creative in your stores.
I hope to find lots more amazing examples of great doodle windows and will update this post as i do.
Oi Polloi – Manchester Mens clothing store
Oi Polloi is a menswear fashion store in Manchester which opened way back in 2002.
Recently moving into a new much bigger space which has given them the chance to expand their range and let their creative juices flow on the interior design of the store.
I love their store design, graphic design, their quirky advertising and the website.
Take a look and if you like what you see have a look at their website or visit their store.
Click here to visit their website
Visit them at
63 Thomas Street
Manchester
M4 1LQ
Cargo Collective
Here is some information about a great website which is a market place for graphic designers, artists, photographers etc
The Cargo Culture
For the last few years Cargo’s main goal has been to create accessible tools and a networked context to enhance the exposure of talented individuals on the Internet.
To achieve this, we offer our users free-standing websites; a wide variety of customizable templates; simple but sophisticated tools to control the way their content is displayed, and a unique user interface built entirely around the work shared by our members who are connected through the Cargo network.
Today, thanks to the consistent quality of the work presented here, we like to think of Cargo as a creative community participating in a constantly evolving visual culture, defined by the exceptional content that finds its way here.
Cargo Gallery
From the beginning, Cargo has attracted some of the most talented individuals now posting their work online, as can be seen in this constantly updated exhibition of the images we love. All work featured here has been found across the network by the Cargo team. Visit the GalleryBy Invite Only
To maintain the highest possible degree of quality, Cargo memberships are restricted by an Invite Only policy that is mediated by account holders, each of whom can invite 5 new members. (Note: we occasionally award memberships to unaffiliated talents who share a sample of their work.)
