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Design 4 Retail are happy to announce that we have joined forces with G-Star Raw, known for its craftsmanship with ‘Raw’ luxury denim and footwear, to design and deliver POP (point-of-purchase) merchandise to 500 key and independent accounts across Europe.

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!

The birthplace of Apple is set to become a testing ground for their new retail design ideas.

The testing ground will be used to trial new design ideas for the company’s future retail outlets.

Current idea’s in the pipeline include indoor trees and a large commons area for business and consumer training.

The new Palo Alto store will feature a completely transparent front and an indoor atrium feel.

Though Apple is not named in the filing, uncovered by Silicon Valley Mercury News, the architect for the project is Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, who also designed the 5th Avenue Apple Store in New York.

That store is well known for its large glass cube entryway for the underground retail area, open 24/7. Palo Alto planning manager Amy French told the Mercury News that it is her understanding that the location will be a new Apple Store.

Design 4 Retail are pleased to announce that we have just successfully handed over yet another D4R designed store for 2Seasons, that’s the seventh this year…with a few more in the pipeline for early 2010.

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Opening its doors for the first time in the land of leeks, John Lewis has made a serious style statement with the arrival of its second largest store in the Partnership. The Cardiff-based four-floored flagship store stretches across 170,000 sq ft and does exactly what it says on the tin.

As a flagship, the John Lewis Partnership has made a bold shift in terms of retail design and presented a much more fashion-focused layout, re-establishing the company as a serious contender in the department store fashion stakes after years of being sidelined by the likes of Selfridges.

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It’s extremely exciting news for all kids (big ones too!) across Scotland to learn that a new Hamleys store is to open in Glasgow – the first in the UK outside of London since opening in 1760.

With not only high demand for their world-famous product lines, there were over 1500 applicants for the new store’s 40 permanent positions. A telling sign of how dear people hold the toyshop retailer to their hearts.

Hamleys originally started out as a toyshop called Noah’s Ark in High Holborn, London back in 1760, but took on its latterday magnificence when founder William Hamley’s grandsons opened up the world famous Regent Street store in London. During the Blitz, the store was bombed 5 times while its dedicated team served in tin hats from the shop’s entrance.

In a new £100million shopping centre in Glasgow, the store will take up an entire floor that’s so big it would cover an entire football pitch.

Opening mid-November, the store’s management team is making bold promises to unveil more of the infamous Hamleys magic that attracts over 8 million visitors each year to the 7-storey Regent Street store in London.

First up at the 25,000sq ft St Enoch Centre store will be special Christmas snow scene store displays, children’s parties and sleepovers, to be followed later next year by an in-store beach.

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Disney have been “dreaming big” after receiving support from Apple big-wig Steve Jobs during their latest rebranding exercise. Jobs’ “dream big” mantra is responsible for Apple’s hit retail design concept of iconically styled stores with vast glass and granite surfaces.

Disney will be remodelling its 340 American and European stores following their consultation with the Apple boss and providing a visionary “Imagination Park” in place of each store, and bucking the trend of simply refurbishing and churning out old hat concepts.

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It’s definitely the season for it as stores worldwide get ghostly in preparation for Halloween, but some retailers are taking the theme further than what’s deemed appropriate or necessary by the public and producing window displays that are considered irresponsible and terrifying.

Marc Jacobs is one such designer. Across the US, his stores have been plastered with decidedly ghoulish “psychotic clown massacre” displays that many people are finding simply too much to stomach.

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100 years ago 90,000 people flocked through the doors on the opening day of the Oxford street Selfridges store.

Over those 100 years there have been many iconic window displays and they have always been a leader in the world of retail design.

Design4retail love this recent window display that appeared in the London Selfridges department store.

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Exciting times are afoot as we discover that UK traders will soon be banned from displaying cigarettes in shops in the government’s latest bid to reduce the number of under-age smokers.

In a true battle of the wills, one of the country’s leading QCs Lord Pannick  advised the government to inform the European Commission before passing any laws that would prohibit the display of cigarettes in stores.

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