Visual Merchandising | LS:N Global

Micro Trends

Digital Display Futures

Online visual merchandising faces structural challenges as customers simultaneously seek aspirational relatability, quality and entertainment.

News

New Roca showroom features LED storefront

Beijing – The space uses technology to attract potential visitors and adapt to the shifting context of its surroundings.

Digital : Branding : Retail

Design Directions

Material Mischief

Designers are translating the aesthetic language of desire and seduction into playful objects and spaces. Indulgent materials and bodily forms offe...

Visual Merchandising : Art Direction : Skin-sensual

News

Preview: Sort by Serendipity

Europe – Brands are creating new sorting systems that foster discovery over obvious organisation.

Revelation Brands : Libreria : Discovery

Micro Trends

Sort by Serendipity

Brands are creating new sorting systems that foster discovery over obvious organisation.

Revelation Brands : Visual Merchandising : Serendipity

News

Hidden corners: Prada window displays offer a new perspective

Milan – Designer Martino Gamper has found inspiration in the often overlooked corners of a room to create a new window display concept for Prada st...

Wood : Martino Gamper : Prada

News

Pegged-down design: Puma opens modular store in South Africa

Johannesburg – Puma Select has opened a store with a pared-back, flexible design to highlight its luxury product range. With the interiors based on...

Retail Interiors : Puma : South Africa

News

Together on a plate: Food and fashion converge

Zurich – The giant image of a shiny, silky oyster is the unlikely backdrop for a monochrome-clad mannequin in the window of Swiss department stor...

Jelmoli : Zurich : Visual Merchandising

Design Directions

Seek No Further

The 1990s are cool again. Everyone from ASOS to Iggy Azalea is referencing 90s culture for Millennials who are still pining for the era of MySpac...

Store Design : Clothing : Visual Merchandising

Viewpoints

In the Tomorrow Store, less is increasingly more

With the lure of the virtual wallet keeping consumers glued to their phones, the menacing power of the mega-systems and drone deliveries soon to ...

Stores : Shops : Visual Merchandising

Big Ideas

EuroShop 2014: Part 1

The retail design world gathered again last week in Düsseldorf for the EuroShop trade fair, and visitors and exhibitors were in a significantly m...

Shopfitting : Display : Dusseldorf

Design Directions

Gym Style

Product designers are borrowing visual cues from the world of sport and gymnasiums, creating playful pieces with a nod towards the growing fascinat...

Gymnasium : Retail : Retail Design

News

Mine host: Linda Farrow eyewear is gritty luxury

New York – Accessories designer Linda Farrow has presented her latest collection of eyewear in a pop-up shop that looks like a gravel pit.

New York : US : America

News

Armed for flexibility: A futuristic store in Japan

Tokyo – Los Angeles-based clothing label Band of Outsiders has opened its first store, but rather than opening in its home town, it chose Tokyo. Wh...

Visual Merchandising : Band Of Outsiders : Flexi-simplicity

Design Directions

Kaleido-metric

A sugary pastel psychedelia is being explored in retail design, with furniture and visual merchandising inspired by 1980s colour palettes, sunlit c...

Memphis : 1980's : Flatforms

News

Branching out: Onico salon looks to the forest

Osaka – Japanese hair and nail salon Onico has been given a forest-inspired design featuring birch trees and other woodland aesthetics.

Visual Merchandising : Onico : Birch

Big Ideas

Retail Analysis: Woolworths Food’s worlds of merchandising

Woolworths : Department Store : Johannasberg

Micro Trends

Packaged Interiors

Retailers are giving packaging a new creative role in the selling experience. As well as providing the take-away brand experience, packaging is bec...

Packaging : Interiors : Visual Merchandising

Big Ideas

Interactive web retail finds new Perch offline

Perch : Digital Projection : Visual Merchandising

Design Directions

Vibrant Folk

Following on from the Emotional Functionality design direction, LS:N Global has identified another style of functional product design that inc...

Craft : Lean : Alonso

Design Directions

Kaizen Living

Kaizen Living is a design direction focused on active rather than passive consumers, those who strive for continuous self-improvement and augmented...

Self Quants : Personal Information Economy : Active Wear

Big Ideas

Village life in store for Ted Baker consumers

Store Design : Visual Merchandising : Retail Concept

News

Festive dreams: Chanel opens window to the world

Chanel : Printemps : Paris

News

Branching out: Topshop lines up a class act

Visual Merchandising : Concept Shop : General Store

Big Ideas

Euroshop Review part 2

The trade show for retail design and construction is held every three years, and retail designers, architects and store fittings manufacturers save...

Interactive : Education : Gesture Recognition