Qubic has embraced the ‘recycle and reuse’ philosophy

It is this theme that has inspired the development of a range of packaging, specifically intended to promote Qubic’s innovative brand identity. Discover the Qubic Store Bags.

Advanced Retail Design - Combining the best of two worlds...

Unlike other strategic retail design seminars or symposia on the Belgian market, this course aims to integrate both retail design strategy and retail design implementation. Learn more about the Advanced Retail Design Course.

Visplays' Invisible brings direct lighting to products

Invisible 6 P/L from Visplay with its integrated 24 V power rail can bring light to your product and this direct lighting prevents shadows on the merchandise. Discover how this fixture has been applied in the Geenen shoeshop.

Fashion Like in C&A São Paulo

The action "Fashion Like", created by DDB Brasil, takes the digital world to the physical world at C&A's flagship store at the Iguatemi Mall, in São Paulo. Learn more aboutFashion Like at C&A.

How to create a retail experience?

On Monday, June 25 2012 Retail Square & Red Zezel organize the first ever Retail Experience Workshop in Antwerp. Innovation catalyst and Experience Economy expert Sara Pieters will focus that day on how you as a retailer can offer a meaningful experience to your customer and how you can ensure a consistent shopping experience. Learn more about this workshop.

24 ISSEY MIYAKE

Nendo designed the 24 Issey Miyake store in Tokyo (Japan). They introduced a concept that provides a different platform for displaying constantly changing products. Nendo abandoned the standard hard, flat visual merchandising fixtures in favour of clusters of thin steel rods to create podiums for display. The result is a scattering of grass-like stands with a similarly vague, undefined shape as the bag on show. Supported by points of contact, rather than flat surfaces, the bags should appear to float in the air like flowers in a light breeze, creating the illusion of an interior garden.

Source: Nendo, Issey Miyake

Delicatessen 2

This clothing store in Tel Aviv by Z-A Studio of New York features items displayed on a pegboard that runs to the ceiling of the double-height space. Called Delicatessen 2, the interior of the shop features furniture that appears to be emerging from the walls, with the spaces beneath them painted yellow.

Source: Z-A Studio

Pop-Up Foldaway Bookshop

Opening for just 13 days, Foldaway Bookshop is a pop-up specialist bookshop created for the London Festival of Architecture 2010 (UK). As the digital revolution advances, Foldaway Bookshop, celebrates the art form of the printed publication and create a key destination and sociable hub to welcome visitors to the Festival.

Source: Dezeen

Galeriile Sabion

Galeriile Sabion is located in the COCOR Department Store in Bucharest (Romania). The flooring in this artful jewelry retail space is a dramatic display. This floor is also outfitted with electric current to electrify and illuminate merchandise displays in artful, hand-sculpted pedestals without wires and sockets. Made of Absolute Zimbabwe Black granite and stainless steel, the checkerboard pattern mirrors the pattern in the glass ceiling, which is made of ordinary mirror tiles and black-painted mirrors, both of which feature Sabion’s logo. The patterns are striking and provide a tunnel-like feel when walking through the “gallery” of jewelry being sold. 

Source: Galeriile Sabion

F-Commerce

 

When people talk about f-commerce (Facebook enhanced retail) what typically comes in mind is the f-store, the Facebook store. But f-commerce is bigger than f-stores. With the launch in 2010 of the Facebook Open Graph Protocol, along with social plugins - brands and retailers have been able to offer Facebook-enhanced retail on websites and in-store, creating a triumvirate of f-commerce opportunities. Notable examples in the two following links.

F-commerce on Facebook & On-site F-Commerce & In-store F-Commerce

Source: Social Commerce Today

Snog colours

Cinimod Studio has delivered its sixth Snog Frozen Yogurt store, and as always, design and technology boundaries have been pushed to deliver a unique retail space. The Chelsea (London, UK) store presented unique design challenges that included a deep shop unit with a relatively narrow shop front. This led to the Cinimod design team seeking new and innovative ways to create a highly visible store that would deliver an eye-catching high street presence using a fusion between sculptured architectural and lighting elements. Building on design explorations from previous Snog stores, Cinimod has taken the integrated furniture and lighting design to new levels. Discover more about the Snog store...

Dieselcam

Diesel stores in Spain have introduced Diesel Cam, an interactive installation that allows shoppers to photograph themselves and post the pictures immediately to their Facebook profiles. Shoppers can photograph themselves as they try on clothes and ask their Facebook friends for advice about which garments they should buy, or they can publish photos to show off all the new clothes they are buying. It’s essentially a social mirror and ties perfectly into how the current shopping experience is evolving!

Source: Diesel

Bike Shop's Unique Spin on Advertising

It’s hard to mistake what business they’re in. It’s of a bicycle shop in Germany. In lieu of a sign, the proprietors decided to advertise with a wall of real bikes. We’re not totally sure how Christian Peterson got all these bikes on his building’s façade, but he’s certainly given new meaning to the notion of a green wall. The co-owner of a bicycle shop in Altlandsberg (GE), Peterson decided to forgo the traditional storefront sign — instead he mounted his entire inventory of 120 bikes for passers-by to see. An ingenious way to advertise his shop, save some space, and promote green transportation, this too cool idea is definitely more impressive than anything an overpaid ad exec could come up with! The owner Peter Horstmann has said that his sales are up by 40% in one year compared to general German bicycle retail is down by 22%.

Source: Fahrradhof-Atlandsberg

The Book Store with an Unique Bookshelves Concept

This book store is called Paagman Book Store which is based in The Hague (The Netherlands). As a common book store, the bookshelves are the main important furniture. CUBE Architects has designed the bookshelves for this Paagman Book Store located in the entrance of The Hague’s Central library. This small space between the escalator, the pillars and the glass round facade is framed with the bright house color of Paagman.

Two long-drawn-out bookshelves with an aisle in between it, are curved along the open shape of the facade. There is a good view from the outside square, both customers and the books are visible. Several open spaces which are found between the shelves serves as a comfortable seat to read, to walk through or as a cash register. In this way the custumer is tempted to walk through the books and sit down to look through them.

The dismountable bookshelf system of reversible shelves makes it easy to choose whether to show the books face-to-face or side by side.

Source: Paagman