F&B

A Food Truck Compendium

Spring is in the air and festival season not long around the corner. Here’s a few food trucks to whet the appetite. All brands whatever their purpose could follow this model for some pop up retail. Wahaca Food Truck, Southbank London Shuck Truck, the obligatory converted Airstream, but this time selling oysters. Originally from Coolhunting, more on their website cabincoveoysters.com The Marination Read more …

Beurre & Sel

Really like this shop (and website) especially the product display, simple is always best and it’s always good when your packaging creates it’s own point of sale. More pictures on their website beurreandsel.com  Read More …

Thorntons – New Store Design

Towards the end of last year our new concept design for Thorntons opened in Birmingham. More bling, more product talk and more emphasis on Thorntons enormous product range. The perimeter (shown here in the Christmas scheme) uses a magnetic paper background to provide an easily changeable backdrop for promotions and events. Self selection is more prominent as is a more elaborate gift wrapping service. Read more …

Cioccolato

A pastry boutique specialising in in custom desserts for special events. Very clean, nice quirks (especially that table) and a space where the product can really stand out. Via the Behance Network  Read More …

Cupcakes in Abu Dhabi

Via a submission, London based carbon, have recently completed a project in Abu Dhabi for Bloomsbury’s. A free standing cupcake kiosk in Al Wahda Mall. The architecture and components were designed as a ‘kit of parts’ so the design can work for roll out locations across the Middle East and India.  Read More …

Flavaboom

A new frozen yogurt shop in Manhattan, New York. Very clean simple and with some really great features, particularly the large seating ‘pods’ with mirrored backs and the illuminated far yogurt dispensing wall. Flavaboom Fascia View through the window Seating pods mounted on the wall and far wall yogurt dispenser   Far wall with changing lighting Mirrored back on seating pod Interior, Read more …

Cielito Querido Café

Very nice Mexican café. So much time and energy has gone into this and a fantastic use of colour and type. Just goes to show you don’t need supersize product images to get your style and flavour across. Spotted at The Dieline  Read More …

D’Espresso – New York

A nice little coffee shop in New York (on Madison Avenue). The optimum word here being little, at only 420 square feet (39 square metres) the designers have done a great job of tricking the eye into making you believe you’re in a larger space. The back wall becomes the floor with the floor and other walls covered in library book wallpaper. I’m starting to see quite a few smaller shops covering Read more …

Holland & Barrett

Holland & Barrett opened a new format store back in February in Bury St Edmunds. Eventually we got around to taking a look. Features included an olive oil station and coffee area and a new Good Food to Go identity which is rather at odds with the traditional Holland & Barrett identity as well as further window graphics which are again mismatched with the Good Food To Go identity. Gondolas are Read more …

The big image

There’s a trend in website design to use large background images to add a larger sense of place to screens. These images should be scaleable so they fit into whatever size window you’re using. Some sites have a random rotating image, some are more static. Some use a bit of javascript, or you can just use css and html (our preferred method, see below) and some use flash. Using images this Read more …