Archive for March, 2007

High Street Etail

A brief summary from retail Week Conference about the push for Etail in the UK, despite 2 thirds of retailers still not having a transactional website read more | digg story  Read More …

The product experience

As retail designers we’re always preaching that retail should be an experience, Peter Merholz from from Adaptive Path takes this further, telling us the product should be the experience. I’d go along with that and it takes a lot of effort and good thinking to do it. Is there anyone in the UK doing this, Apple of course, although I find their stores a bit clinical for my taste and possibly Read more …

High fashion at Topshop

High Street retail goes High Fashion with the Kate Moss collection being launched in Topshop soon and on the front cover of Vogue no less. No doubt this will have them queuing round the block but ultimately it just makes Topshop better and the lower echelons of the Arcadia look dowdy in comparison. Now a Kate Moss collection in Bhs, that would be something.  Read More …

Can design make a difference?

Recently we attended a new business meeting with a prospective client. Previously we’d sent them some of our marketing blurb material and had been rebuffed. however since then we’d had a phone call to arrange a meeting, so off we went. This is a business that works in fashion retail and considering they’d invited us we assumed that the answer to the question at the top of this post Read more …