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Borough Market

Nick — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 14:58:51 +0000

For your delectation a little gallery of Borough Market, just because.

Click an image to see larger version and cycle through the gallery.

Ikea pop up – the making

Nick — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:35:57 +0000

And now the making of video …

More summery garden and outdoorsy stuff from Ikea here with some nice Pinterest worthy images further down the page and an easy garden planning tool too.

Pop Up Ikea

Nick — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:32:32 +0000

To tie in with Ikea’s ‘Make more of your Garden’ their new pop up at Liverpool Street Station.

Apparently 800,000 commuters pass through the station every day.

Ikea on facebook

Fred Perry at Westfield

Nick — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:46:00 +0000

A new store for Fred Perry at Westfield Stratford City.

The centrepiece is a locally made sculpture of 32 brass leaved that viewed from the front creates the signature Fred Perry laurel wreath.

Thorntons – New Store Design

Nick — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:30:51 +0000

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. Lighting is much more detailed and ranges from overhead ceiling rafts to shelf level product lighting.

More blurb on our website.

585 Boardriders

Nick — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:12:49 +0000

A new(ish) flagship store for Quiksilver, 585 Boardriders on Venice Boulevard in sunny California, USA.

The 10,000 square foot open floor plan store allows storage for up to 500 surfboards and also provides a fully equipped surf and skateboard shop. Also incorporated are skateboard friendly spaces on the front and side of the building. Inside includes a curated art gallery, a green wall and outside a landscaped ‘backyard garden to serve as a hosting area for community events and band and dj performances.

Previously the store looked like this.

Submitted by Verdego

The Luncheonette

Nick — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:17:53 +0000

The idea of the luncheonette (officially a long counter with stools where the patron is served from the other side of the counter) has always really appealed to me. The romance of solitude and a cup of coffee and eggs over easy. Whilst looking at John Wright’s photography site I saw luncheonette in the background of one of the shots. 2 mins of google searching later and I arrived at the All Star Lanes website with images of their luncheonette at Brick Lane. Also on their site a look at their pop up stand and finally for true luncheonette flavour the external sign of Hinsch from the very fine flickr photostream of Whiskeygonebad.

Found, antique, vintage etc.

Nick — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:56:29 +0000

There’s a growing trend towards individuality in larger brand retail taking after what’s been going in the leisure market for a few years. After all why design the same thing over and over again when you can do it differently every time. The modern globe trotting or even just city hopping person perhaps doesn’t want the same environment every time s/he visits the same brand.

One way of changing the environment without watering down the brand is to use found and refurbished objects, fixtures and fittings that are in keeping with the overall brand identity.

Graphics often becomes less important and the objects and furniture more valuable. How this style of retail will stand the test of time I’m not sure, it needs constant reinvention and reiteration to keep it fresh rather than the usual complete refit every five years or so.

A few examples of some more individual ‘third places':

Roy Street Coffee and Tea by Starbucks

Originally from: Furfin

15th Avenue E Coffee and Tea by Starbucks

Originally from: Furfin

The Chin Chin Laboratorists

Originally from: Dezeen

Red Wing Shoes, Amsterdam

Originally from: Furfin

Starbucks concept store, Conduit Street London

Originally from: PSFK

And on this blog …

Albion and Rapha Cycle Club

New Greggs Prototype Store

Nick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:16:47 +0000

Just put up a post about the new Greggs Prototype store. It’s a move on for Greggs, fundamentally still the value proposition but in a more contemporary store.

One of the key features is the lighting scheme which uses 100% LED lighting and is the first store in Europe to do so. This halves the energy consumption for the lighting.

More info and pictures on our main website.

More Snog

Nick — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:40:30 +0000

I’ve writtten about Snog on here before and I must admit I keep coming back to it every time we look at a fascia on another job. So now here’s some more pics and even videos at Lighting which has an excellent write up about the lighting scheme.

Also worth having a look at is their kiosk which opened in Westfield on Monday. Not many images online yet but no doubt they’ll start appearing soon, and the van is great too.

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