If you’ve got what we are looking for you could find yourself working for us as we expand to meet the growing demand for our services.

We have a creative job vacancy available for :-

New Business Development/Key Account Manager

For your application to be successful D4R are looking for a creative dynamic who is passionate about retail design with previous experience of working with a design agency.

You also need to have experience and contacts in Fashion and Mobile Technology.

We are looking for someone with a can do attitude who wants to work for a can do creative agency.

In return we will provide you with a nice working environment, friendly colleagues, the opportunity to work with large clients such as Kickers, Selfridges, Clarins and Triumph and a good salary to top it off.

If you think you have what it takes then send us a copy of your CV.

All applications will be received in strict confidence.

London’s pan-Asian bar/restaurant Inamo has moved retail design into the future with cutting-edge technology.

They have replaced the waitress/waiters with touch-projection-screen technology to provide a tabletop menu system.

Diners can use the digital projectors to select and order their food and drinks as well as check out the latest weather reports, surf the web and pay their bill. Not only can the diners use the projection tables to interact with the restaurant, they can also find out information about nearby bars and order a taxi.

The projectors hover over each individual table in the restaurant and give diners an interactive experience and entertain them while they wait for their food to be served.

The style of the restaurant combines the futuristic style of the interactive tables with the retro feel of the furniture, patterns and colours.

This might not be the best news for waiters and waitresses of the world but we are sure that it will be of interest to anyone who is interested in retail design or gadgets and technology.

The d4r team worked with G-Star’s footwear divison to design their point of purchase displays to encourage greater take-up of the brand. We created a strong brand “call out”, but would also enable a greater potential for sales in-store too.

G-Star Footwear allowed our design team the flexibility to come up with a completely new POP concept while still maintaining the integrity of the brand itself.

We used raw black steel for the POP design with a discreet logo for branding. The display stands were of a premium yet simplistic finish.  The new merchandise kit includes an FSU to provide a key focal point for the brand, a logo block and shoe risers which will together enable the retailer to easily display the footwear throughout the store – from the shop window to the point of sale.

Look out for the new G-Star Footwear display stands and eye catching shoe risers next time you are out and about looking for some new shoes – they are bound to draw your attention.

The roll-out for G-Star Raw Footwear begins this month so expect to see our designs in a shop near you soon!

Environmentalists are campaigning about the amount of packaging used on many products that once had no packaging at all and supermarkets have encouraged customers to use reusable shopping bags.

As companies try to look at ways around making their packaging more environmentally friendly they turn to recyclable and biodegradable materials as a way to promote their brand.

As of next month, Lay’s crisps are set to be packaged in eco-friendly bags. The bags will be compostable so the idea is that you eat the crisps and then place the packet in your composter. This way the company gets to brand their products with a lot less of an impact on the environment.

The new compostable bags are made of sugars derived from corn and is the first crisp bag in the world to be completely compostible.

After about 14 weeks the bag will have turned to compost in a municipal style compost, or a little longer in your back garden.

Lay’s are part of the Pepsico brand along with Walkers, so the environmental packaging may be coming to England in the near future. Watch this space!

Thanks to the growing success of our design agency we need to employ some new blood. We already have a fantastic team of creative and highly motivated staff who know how to work hard, hit deadlines, ensure every last detail is taken care off and deliver the best possible service to our high profile clients.

In return they have a funky workplace, great colleagues, get to work on some top brands, a good salary and naturally fantastic bosses !

If you’re a young creative designer or development designer looking to move up a notch and work for a dynamic design agency based in Leicestershire read on….

We’re looking for:

Creative Designer
Creative geniuses, show us how talented you are. We are looking for a highly talented creative designer with around 3 – 5 years experience in all things Retail and POP. More than likely you’ll be someone looking to take their next step up the design ladder…………….Amazing studio max and photoshop skills are a must !

Development designer
You will undoubtedly be an expert in all of the manufacturing processes with the ability to work extremely well under pressure and have an amazing eye for detail, delivering the creative solutions that our clients desire – on time and in budget ! Some old school nouse on how things go together backed up with the relevant solid works (or similar) and auto cad skills.

Both positions will be rewarded with an appropriate package.

All applicants will be received in the strictest confidence so if you are intrested dont be shy and send your CV to Chris.

NO AGENCIES !

Currently the largest and fastest growing global headwear company,  New Era are makers of  cool and trendy baseball hats that can be seen on the heads of everyone from MTV rappers through to the clean-living baseball players.

What makes this company successful is that they understand that hats are about making a statement, being aspirational, and looking like your sporting heroes and celebrities.  And that fashion and style has to be reflected in everything related to the brand, including in store design and merchandising.

Naturally, they’re experts at producing top hats, but for the instore merchandising they employed d4r’s young, and funky team of designers to come up with a retail design that shouts out to the youth of today.

The result, a striking in-store point-of-purchase (POP) merchandise that oozes celebrity glitz and represents the brand and its product offering.

What we’ve done is create an environment where the world famous head gear can sit easily alongside its apparel range.  Customers will firstly be enticed by the branding blocks in the store window. Then in-store units have been designed to stand at eye level to deliver maximum impact and new gondolas created with a clean contemporary design allowing the head gear to be the real focus.

With so many different retail outlets to promote their range in, the POP merchandise had to be flexible, easy to use and strong so that it could fit the different store environments, where space can be at a premium,  allowing it to be easily moved and updated when necessary.

This is what Marketing Director had to say: “d4r understands our brand and has created an in-store program that clearly supports our brand’s positioning and direction. It has been a pleasure to work with them on this key project for us in the EMEA market.”

We think that the POP and retail design that we have delivered is a great example of how POP can work hard to effectively communicate brand transition, while still staying true to the brand’s origins and delivering value for money.

And that’s exactly what we’re doing here. Our team at d4r have done it again – they’ve produced something spectacular. We’ve just successfully delivered a really sexy exhibition stand for Triumph at the recent MODA exhibition.

The Moda exhibition is the must-be-seen place for any self respecting fashion-ite to be at. It’s where you get to show off or see the latest season collections for woman’s wear, mens wear, footwear and accessories. In such a highly competitive and attention-demanding arena, if you want to be noticed your stand has to shout “look at me, look at me, aren’t I absolutely gorgeous”.

Triumph has a fabulous range of new season attire and to help promote it we provided some strong graphics, beautiful finishes and a luxurious meeting area where you could chill out and rest your feet for a while.

Not only is everyone at Design 4 Retail really proud of the display stands we’ve produced,  but our clients are too.  This is what the Head of Retail Marketing at Triumph International had to say: “Thank you and your team for such a fabulous stand – it was the talking point of the show, to the extent that even our competitors passed compliments! The organisers were thrilled with the design and execution and feel it provided a great benchmark for others.”

Have a gander at some of the snaps we took while we were at MODA and enjoy.

The product is the same but the way it is packaged and served to you has changed for the sachets you get in fast food outlets and restaurants. The new packaging allows you to make a choice between dipping or squeezing!

In a true packaging breakthrough the new dual-function Ketchup sachet allows you to peel back the lid for a dunking experience or tear off the strip to squeeze onto your food.

The new design can hold three times more ketchup than the current packet.

The beautiful red US Mail boxes stand out to any passer by along with the well placed envelopes and branded special delivery postage franking on the glass window.

The colour red obviously works well to highlight the Valentine’s Day promotion and also works well to highlight the jewellery.

All this before you even notice the jewellery strategically placed throughout the window display.

This is the type of window display that will draw a customer to take a second glance because it is so unusual.

PUMA commissioned Wiley to create a new boot for their PUMA Global Football campaign leading up to and through the FIFA World Cup™ 2010 in South Africa.
You’ll recognise the boots straightaway because of their bold design, and you might have already seen the limited edition v.1.10 Kehinde Wiley boot being worn by PUMA players Samuel Eto’o, John Mensah and Emmanuel Eboué in some of the UEFA Champions League games.

Now they’re also being showcased for the general public, which is where Design 4 Retail come in.

To show off their designer boots they approached us at d4r and asked to create something inspiring. Naturally we rose to the challenge and shot our designs straight in the back of the net (sorry, we just couldn’t help getting at least one footie pun in) with an African inspired Pop Up space.

We’ve designed, developed and installed this fabulous retail design to show off the boots and get everyone geared up to the World Cup. What makes it special is that the space we’ve created really breaks new ground for Pop Up shop environments.

PODS placed at either end of the area act like hands embracing the space and everything within it. And little touches like the grass, African table, posed mannequin of a football player and live media add an extra element of fun.

Here’s some snaps of what you’ll get to see, but hurry down and live the experience.