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John Wilkes Riflemaker

Nick — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:29:23 +0000

A lifetime ago we used to stand outside the Sun and 13 Cantons on Beak Street and lust after this shop. Always loved the colour and the signwriting.

Now a gallery it’s got it’s own website www.riflemaker.org and is available for hire.

Setting up shop – online

Nick — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:49:14 +0000

If you’re thinking about setting up an ecommerce or mail order shop, or even adding ecommerce functionality to your website you need to be aware of UK distance selling and e-commerce regulations.

Here’s a link from Out-law.com to help in writing those all important terms & conditions. Also much more useful ecommerce set up information on the site.

Rapha Cycle Club

Nick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:41:36 +0000

A good piece about the Rapha Cycle Club café from Noisy Decent Graphics.

Also worth looking at his flickr group of the café. The Rapha website’s not too shabby either and a nice video on Monocle.

These days there’s no reason not to have a shop, a pop up shop, a twitter, a facebook page, a van, go to festivals, write a book, a photo essay, a magazine, have a loyalty card, a website, a microsite, a tumblr, a flavors.me, print a t-shirt the list goes on. Brands that market themselves as authentic and have an idea win. Those that buy off the shelf and stick their logo on, fail.

Update: just came across another piece about Rapha here on everydaylife.style loads more to explore on there too.

The Future of Retail by PSFK

Nick — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:00:06 +0000

You can flick through the Future of Retail or get a download here.

Well worth a look.

Made up

Nick — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:35:54 +0000

Just spotted made.com, a new furniture website and to make it even better for a new visitor there’s a pop up money off voucher. Nice idea.

Originally spotted (and more info) on the very fine Design Milk.

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.

Tis the season to pop up your shop

Nick — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:40:44 +0000

Found on the Cool Hunting blog this pop up Holiday shop, ‘Stop Shop’ in New York by Areaware.

Read the full story with more pictures here.

Also worth a visit for pop up inspiration is Cool Hunting’s whole pop up retail category.

Square away

Nick — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:36:38 +0000

A new way of accepting payments for retailers of all sizes devised by a team including Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. An interesting use of the audio jack makes me wonder how soon before you can ‘bump’ your cash from phone to phone?

More on the Square website and follow them on twitter @Square could be interesting.

Supermarket set up

Nick — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:14:58 +0000

Some stop motion action from Supermarket Sarah as she/they set up their Xmas pop up shop.

More images below, including Mel Elliot’s brilliant colouring wall, Peter Ibreugger’s fab moustache mugs, the super cool WORK IT girls making their wall and the illustrator phoebe Eason painting her Bird wall.

If I wasn’t a country bumpkin I’d be there filling my golden shopping basket with goods, various.

Details of how to get there on the Supermarket Sarah blog

More Supermarket Sarah

Nick — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:01:05 +0000

A few more pictures from our new favourite shop, (did we mention about experience retailing?) this is her new wall guest curated by the super designer Fred Butler. Also a very fine Benny Hill style making of video.