Retail Design Expo in London , 2015

Awaiting Retail Design Expo 2015!!

Its finally happening on 10th – 11th March 2015, Olympia, London

The entire retail design industry has been eagerly waiting for this event to happen soon. At this event, all world wide retail design partners, architecture, brand management, shop fitting suppliers will showcase their work. All the spaces have started been booking. There is a plan to expand the space to keep up with the demand.

‘Retail Design Expo provides us with the perfect platform to present our very latest solutions and to engage with retailers and designers. Visplay will be showcasing some of the latest powered systems alongside Ansorg presenting the latest lighting solutions and Vizona featuring the latest case studies of retail concepts they have realised’.
Nick Whitehand, country manager for Visplay UK and Ireland

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Yabu Pushelberg Designs - Latest Design

In Shangai's Times Square, Yabu Pushelberg designed Lane Crawford's new China flagship store. Till date, this is the largest and luxurious retail store designed covering 150,000 square feet land spanning four floors.

The colour scheme that has been chosen is neutral with mild shades of blues and purples, burnt orange.

"Base materials such as English onyx and limestone, chosen for their beautiful grain and warm tones, carry a common element across all four levels, while champagne coloured chain mail cascades down the walls and voids, unifying the vertical space. This motif is further developed into a rain pattern, rendered in specialty paint and mother of pearl, which evolves in mood and scale from floor to floor."

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It is designed from shoppers view point. Vertical circulation gives an element of surprise to shoppers at every step. Artist Hirotoshi Sawada work is also installed at the counters.

More about Retail Design, get in touch with our retail designing expert Paula Dowie.

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New Technologies in Waitrose in Swindon branch...

Customer's convenience while shopping in any retail store is of prime importance. Be it any clever retail or in store designs or innovative technologies, the main purpose is to display the best to the customers.

The Swindon branch of waitrose which opened last month has installed new innovations and best in store systems. This branch has various tablet stations for the customers that would help them to discuss and decide what to buy along side the help from staff.

"Speaking last week at the grocer's new Swindon store, Price argued that Waitrose is "competing on all of these fronts" and said that his business is "going to be everything the discounters aren't" as it looks to continue increasing sales and its market share in the coming months."

Read more about the new technology installed here...

For in general enquiry on retail design services and improving your retail sales, get in touch with Ignite Design. We will be happy to help.

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Starbucks to open in Downtown Disney District

Starbucks to open its first store in Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California. Starbucks has teamed up with Disney for the first time. Starbucks coffee shop will be opening first store out of four at Disney location for guests to come and relax.

The retail design plays a vital role. It should be comfortable for the guests and they find the place very relaxing.

"This store is a reflection of two iconic brands coming together to offer their customers the kind of high quality experience they expect in a way that embodies the unique passion of each," commented Arthur Rubinfeld, chief creative officer and president, global innovation for Starbucks. "Collaborating with Disney offered us the opportunity to create a unique moment of connection for our customers in a way that evokes the magic that their guests expect."

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Whats new in Beauty? - Ignite Review

Japonesque Beauty Brand - John Lewis - Complete turn-key solution by Ignite Design from Concept retail design to installation of 4 sites in 10 weeks.

Whats new in beauty?

Beauty DIY is Key:

Giving people what they want, how they want it is a key trend underlined by an even bigger trend, giving consumers the tools to do it themselves. It picks up on the interest of 'show your working' - type marketing in which luxury brands demonstrate their craft in a public, how-to format.

Customers appreciate knowing the provenance and craft behind their favourite products and when it comes to beauty, we're seeing an emerging lab-style workshop approach in retail laying out products in a help-yourself environment reminiscent of a beauty science lab. The effect is interactive and inviting rather than clinical - the laboratory being seen as a seductive place where magical alchemy happens.

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Japonesque - Retail design by Ignite

Ignite recently finished retail design for Japonesque. Completed turn-key solution from concept to installation of 4 sites in just 10 weeks.

Retail Design process:

- Management and production of all graphic applications from light box duratrans through to animated screen content to insure full integration and impact is provided to increase sales..

- Absolute communication with client and store to insure smooth transition from initial ideas to completion, to full satisfaction.

- Integration of all client and store specifications.

- Sourcing of all peripherals including furniture fixtures and lighting.

- Design and realisation of innovative modular product holders and planagrams for shelves and all other product areas including tester tables and Hero shelving.

- Initial floor plans including foot flow and brand visibility through to elevations and full design intent packages.

Contact Paula Dowie, Retail design expert for anything related to design of your retail store

FREE Design Consultation/Critique of in-store brand proposition & existing retail store. Contact Paula Dowie @ + 44 (0) 208 870 3240.

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Retail Design - Xmas Sale!!

Every retail store is running xmas sale. To make maximum profit this season, its essential that your store has strategically good retail design.

Here are some tips on commercial retail design:

Lights and Colours

The interiors of the shopping malls also are an important area where the buyer is prodded to make an instant decision in purchasing a product that may not have done in an ordinary clothing store or bookstall. The effect of the lighting and the colours added to enhance the value of the product is a very perfect area that relates to the senses of the consumer. The best displayed goods get their enhanced demeanour from the lights that are used to change the texture and looks of the product that a consumer will purchase at the first time he looks at it.

Design Range

The range of design contains different shades, colours, geometric's and all elements that have an individuality of their own according to the preferences of the shop structure. The utilisation of the retail design in such spaces is the idea behind making this concept create an atmosphere of cool shopping experience.This enhances the quality of the goods and gives the customer a decent way to make his purchase. The dominant colours reflect the spirit of the design to cater to the needs of the buyer as well.

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Retail Design boost sales - Ignite

The increase in retail sales depends mostly on the conceptual retail design of the stores. An ideal retail store design is that portrays a well lit ambience with colourful lights and attractive background. The new and in vogue retail design consist of the following parameters:

• Architecture
• Furniture and Fixtures
• Flooring
• Lighting
• Graphics
• Visual Merchandising

Designing of a successful store with unique architecture, lighting highlights the ideas, which being replicated by every shopping mall to drive in foot traffic today.

Wide Circulation Space

The circulation space though limited in certain stores is made to appear bigger and wider with retail design coming to the fore. The impact is dramatic as it offers the customer ample room to make the choice in an instant. In this way the productivity level increases as the goods are sold out in no less time. Natural lights enhances poor visibility in the stores to make an eye catching effect on the client or consumer to make a purchase. 

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How commercial retail design can benefit retail stores?

Commercial Retail Design

Shopping Ambience

An ambience where shopping is a delight and wonderful experience. It is a a high end sophisticated atmosphere to soothe the senses and create a feeling of joyfulness and peaceful time spent for good quality time with friends, relatives and colleagues. It is the latest trend in creating a clean space for enjoyable shopping experience. For example, a bookstore requires ample shelves to accommodate several books on different topics under various subjects. A clothing space requires wide area for the goods and products to be displayed in eye catching manner.

Interior Decoration

Interior design plays a vital role in the elevation of the product or goods that are displayed for the customer to get a better feel of the goods in an attractive context. The managing of positions for attractive lighting and the type of lights with different colour shades is what retail designing all about. The architecture and the emphasis on merchandise promotional sales is the high point of a good interior design given to a shopping mall and the several stores that are a part of it.

Large Window Spaces

The billboards play an important role in drawing the shoppers into the showroom. The attractive display with the latest eye catching colours used in them is an added asset to any conceptual design space. The employment of large windows as spaces of advertising the goods in a wide angle display is the catch point that gives the buyer an idea of what is inside the store and persuades them to enter the mall and enjoy a productive purchasing solution. 
 

Shopping Centre

The first name given to a commercial shopping space is the shopping centre. The idea of commercial retail design began with the intent of benefiting suburban families. Later, it developed into boutiques where clothing and fashion footwear were sold along with inner garments and make up kits. The increase in jobs and pay packets increased the spending capacity of the consumer that ushered a new era of retail design shopping spaces across the globe. 
 

Internet Marketing

The World Wide Web threw the doors open enticing the shopper to do shopping with the click of a button by saving much time and easy access to several latest brands and designs in various parts of the world. Thematically, commercial retail design entered the domain of internet marketing even for non-conventional products where retail design can be used in a profitable manner. The successful circulation of business where design concepts are given a new look from time to time is the requisite for a good merchandise purchase with a complete satisfying shopping thrill and excitement. The key to any commercial space success is the natural lights that complement the interiors. 

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Why retail design is important at commercial level?

IgniteRetail design agency ,based in the UK, has done retail designing for big brands like Aston Martin, Harrods, L'oreal and many more...

Why retail design is important for your store?

World Class Impact

The impact created by professional retail designs is overwhelming with updated new concepts and world class decorations that create adequate business space for retail chains to accommodate products that promotes easy manoeuvrability and freedom while shopping or transacting business. According to the configuration of the space the entry points, exit area, circulatory area, environment quality along with lighting and sound system is given the best pattern that creates dramatic impact on the customers.

Skilful Designs

Ignite Retail, does a very skilful job in designing the architecture, background, ceilings, floor patterns including, curved plan, perimeter design for angular traffic flow with transitional areas to display merchandise and create an inviting look from all end up. The impression the natural lights create among colored settings that are bright and vary with the space available for the perfect studio effect in all its totality. The material used is aesthetically pleasing with a minimum maintenance needed for its up keeping. The color contrast that they create is an excellent combination of the local flavor with international designs. 

 

Corporate Identity

The images on the walls form the main focal point of the overall ambience in the retail outlets and business places. Ignite Retail draw out unique and distinct commercial designs for a corporate identity and brand image accentuation in all categories in terms of growing success in the marketing corridors. They deliver successful designs that make the customers to spend adequate time in clean and eco-friendly environments. This enables the sales to soar higher and increase profit margins beyond expected horizons. The friendly site managers ensure that high levels of standards are maintained as per the client’s specifications and satisfaction for long term bonding and mutual commercial benefit. 

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What is Retail Design?

Retail design is a commercial discipline that mixes various distinct fields of expertise together in the construction of retail space and design. It is a specific interior design and practice of architecture; nevertheless it incorporates components of ergonomics, industrial design, interior decoration, graphic design, and advertising.

The following are the six basic circulation plans and store layouts that all furnish a different experience:

1. Straight plan: It divides transitional areas from one part of the store to the other by utilising walls to display merchandise. It leads the user to the back of the store. This design can be utilised for a variety of stores ranging from pharmacies to apparel.
2. Pathway plan: It is most suitable for large stores that have single stage. In this plan there is a path that is unobstructed by shop fixtures, this smoothly guides the user all around the store.
3. Diagonal plan: It uses perimeter design which causes angular traffic flow and the cashier is in a central location and easily available. This plan is most suited for self service retail stores.
4. Curved plan: It aims to make an intimate environment and there is an emphasis on the structure of the space including the walls, ceiling and a corner this is achieved by creating the structure curved and is increased by circular floor fixtures.
5. Varied plan: In this plan attention is drawn to particular centre areas, in addition to having storage areas that line the wall. This is best suited for jewellery and footwear retail stores.
6. Geometric plan: It utilises the racks and the retail floor fixtures to make a geometric floor plan and circulation movement. By letting down parts of the ceiling certain areas can make defined retail spaces and this is well suited for appeal stores.

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Shoe retail store design ideas

Do you own a shoe store?

Here is a collection of some world's best shoe store retail design. They are simply awesome. From lighting to shoe display, everything holds its importance and nothing can't be ignored.

Check out these cool shoe stores:

Which one is your favourite? Check out more retail design ideas here

I recently visited Nike store on oxford store. The way they have put altogether makes the store looks so spacious and dispaly of shoes is excellent.

At ignite, we also strive to give our customers best possible retail designs so their customers can't stop coming to their store. We try and make the retail store easy to shop in and every product should be arranged in some kind of order.

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Technology to rule out retail sector growth | Ignite Retail

The increasing interest in smartphones will rule out retail sale growth in the next decade. However, every retail store has set up a web store so people can buy stuff online at their own convenience.

The retailers have to take some strong action so they can succeed tomorrow.

According to the new reports produced by retail consultant Conlumino on behalf of retail property company Hammerson, owner of Birmingham’s Bullring Shopping Centre. The report expects average annual growth in retail spending of 2.4% between 2013 and 2022, an improvement of the 1.9% achieved over the past decade. By 2022, retail spending will have reached £377bn, up 26% on current levels.

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Ignite Design is a retail design agency based in London. They are just moving fast with time to help retailers to keep with the moving technology and changing shopping habits of consumers. At Ignite, we do all the research into your industry and business area to come up with best retail design strategies.

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UK retail stores growth | Ignite Retail

In the month of February, UK retail stores sale grew at their fastest rate in more than three years, as the unexpected cold weather held shoppers back out onto the High Street. 

According to the British Retail Consortium (BRC) retail sales were up 2.7% on the previous year.
That is the fastest rate of like-for-like sales growth since December 2009, the group said.

Increasinf demands for electronic goods increased the retail sales all over the high street in the UK. 
With the new reports on customer demands and pleasent weather forecast, retailers can take a sigh of relief.

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To benefit from the circumstances, a little bit of spending on retail designing would do no harm to retailers. With the increasing in the number of shoppers to the store, it is always a good idea to have retail section designed the way customer finds easy to shop. It avoids customer being dissapointed and makes things go smoother..

Ignite Retail aids customers with commercial retail designing and in store design work as well. Both are equally important to the store. According to Ignite, a strategic placement of products with proper displays that makes shopping fun for customers help to make happy customers.

Get in touch with us today to get an appointment for your store refurbishment.

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May Design Series | Ignite Retail

In the month of may, in London, there were four great shows.

"The world looks to Britain as the leaders of design, and London hasn¹t had a show that encompasses all the different sectors of industry... until now" - Vanessa Brady

In this great city of London, the May Design Series brings together four interior design events on retail and architectural communitites. This is show is very useful to find best furniture, accessories, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom stuff...

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You can also register to secure a space in the show.

At Ignite Retail, we help our clients to provide consultancy in retail design and commercial interior design that aids to increase retail sales.

Designing the interior of a retail space is a challenge and most important for the business. A retail designer is responsible for creating an environment which gives a pleasent experience to consumers while shopping.

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Five Minutes With...Your Beauty Assistant

Five Minutes With...

Five Minutes With... is a new series of interviews on yourbeautyassistant.com with leading personalities from across the industry.

The objective is to obtain the views from top people in the business about what they feel about the industry, what excites them about their companies and brands and what is important to them in their personal lives (causes, charities, friends, politics, arts luxuries etc).

So if someone spent five minutes with the interviewee they would leave with a good understanding of why they have been so successful and what kind of person they are.

The questions are not published, only the answers in the form of a statement

The answers - or each statement - should be brief: one, two or a maximum of three sentences.

The questions below are not in any order and it is not mandatory to answer all or any of them; instead, should he or she wish, the interviewee can pen their own profile of themselves by answering (in statement form) their own questions.

The ‘interview’ will be prefaced by a short introduction written by yourbeautyassistant.

An image of the interviewee is required and should be sent to jon_charles@btinternet.com or info@yourbeautyassistant.com

Where necessary the copy will be edited and sent for approval prior to publishing.

For all further information contact Jonathan Charles: 020 8488 9515/jon_charles@btinternet.com

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Ignite Design has moved again!!

Ignite Design has moved to old nest again.

The new address is:

Ignite Design Ltd.
6 Morie Street, Wandsworth
London, SW18 1SL
t. + 44 (0) 208 870 3240

At Ignite, we have helped many famous brands to over come difficult times with the best retail designs for the stores.

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TESTIMONIAL: 
It’s been a pleasure working with you - I just love the chase of the consumer insight, and working to bring about a genuine breakthrough has been a super journey.  

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Redevelopement of Oxford Street | Ignite Retail

Westminster City Council, London has approved to remove some of the old existing buildings on the world's one of the most expensive streets 'Oxford Street' and is all ready to undergo a £195m redevelopment. 

It will be a great addition to UK's high street and beneficial for our consumers.

According to Richard Dickinson, chief executive of New West End Company, which represents businesses in Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, this redevelopmenet should take place ahead of Crossrail opening in 2018 which is another big project and aim to transport about 200,000 people every day.

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Retail stores in the UK are going through difficult times due to economic balance and delay in the summer season in the UK. Finally in the month of July, heat wave hit britain and hope to last for long. There is massive sale going on in Oxford Street in big brands like HnM, Mango, Next and many more...

Don't forget to make a trip...

At Ignite Retail, we strive to provide high class retail designing to the retail stores that helps both customers and owner to solve the purpose.

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New Year Hopes for Retail Stores - Ignite Retail

UK high street figures are not very promising for this year. There has been a sharp fall in spending after christmas as the economy has been going through ups and downs. The cold weather gripped UK  for almost the end of may.
"Sales of food fell by 2.6 per cent, to the lowest level seen since April 2004.

Keith Richardson, retail expert at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking, said: “The number of high street insolvencies so far in 2013 and the prevailing economic headwinds suggest that it’s going to be another challenging year for retailers.”

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Ignite Retail helps you to keep pace with UK economy. A good retail design always helps you to gain customer's attractions and improves number of customers coming to the retail store.

The in store design is a key for every retail store. The way products are displayed and how visible they are to the customers improves purchasing.

Ignite Design are highly creative & resourceful designers.  Given the no of skus Paul & Joe consistently have to merchandise, and the comparative size of our site at Harrods, Ignite did a great job of designing our unit to present our cosmetics in an accessible way for customers to browse & test.  They design from the customer viewpoint, so create maximum impact for our brand.  We are delighted with their strategic creativity and positive on time, on budget response.

Annie Bruce, Paul & Joe.

Scientific side of retail design

Retail store owners are striving hard to develop new strategies to influence customers to their store. Understanding shopper's thinking and needs is very important for every store - why, what and where...

This is usually done accompanied shopping; mystery shopping, face to face interviews of the customers, surveys and many other tools.

Shelf layout is another important thing which should not be forgotten when in store design is being done. Good shelf layout makes visibility and findability easy for customers. They don't have to spend time on searching for little things. Everything should be so well organised that its easy to find.

Read More here about how shopper reasearch can add difference to retail design

At Ignite Retail, one of UK's most promising retail design agencies, helping many big brands with the marketing and retail designing.

By spending prominent time and energy on in store design, really improves in the number of customers.
It's a challenge to design the in store for every business. A retail designer is responsible for creating an environment which gives a pleasent experience to consumers while shopping.


Contact Paula Dowie, owner of Ignite Retail, for retail design services.