Retail Identity

Your Brand Home.

Great store design isn’t just about looking good.

– it’s about bringing your brand to life in a way that’s bold, memorable, and totally you. Whether launching a flagship, refreshing an existing space, or rolling out a new format, we bring innovation, creativity, and commercial awareness to the process, turning your ideas into award-winning environments. Every step of the design journey is expertly managed to ensure your brand, creative vision, and architectural integrity stay perfectly aligned.

By combining our background of exceptional interior design with emerging and immersive technology, we create stores invite interaction, build loyalty, and leave a lasting impression- delivering design that performs.

We take the time to understand your brand and target audience, sharing with you our expanse of experience and commercial know-how. We’re adept at curating formidable yet flexible retail identities, functioning for retail and beyond, from compelling names and logo creation to revolutionising existing brands. We will provide you with a clear Brand Guideline document, enabling you and your team to frictionlessly action exemplary new brand colours, typefaces, fonts, image directions, and more.

SCIENCE MEETS BIOPHILIA AT RETAIL

Our collaboration with Wild Science Lab saw the launch of a botanical shop-in-shop in the newly built Printemps department store in Doha, Qatar. Prior to this project, Wild Science Lab was an online-only brand, making this their debut into the world of physical retail. Our branding process ensured a full understanding of the brand, its products, and target audience, allowing us to translate the brand in an impactful, educational, and memorable way within a busy multi-branded environment. We crafted a brand palette of premium finishes, ownable biophilic textures, and enlightening brand and ingredient explainers, while maximising the brand’s prized motifs on midfloor units.

CREATING A BRAND-HOME FOR K-BEAUTY IN THE UK

K-Beauty retailer, PURESEOUL, challenged D4R to create an accessible space for skincare enthusiasts and makeup junkies to fall in love with Korean cosmetics. Kickstarting the project we read, researched and explored every aspect of the scope and potential to fully understand the brand and vendor objectives, the customer and the specific and current market sector. Through rounds of strategy and creative, we culminated our works with a retail identity that was both playful and functional, communicating the brand’s Korean steer through colours, form, texture, typography, and a bespoke suite of hand drawn illustrations.

THE FUTURE OF SLEEP RETAIL

We worked with TEMPUR to create a comprehensive set of guidelines, confirming a consistent retail experience across the brand’s global estate. The experience hinged on our adaptation of TEMPUR’s brand world, ensuring the sleep-leader’s execution is on-brand, every time across all retail scenarios. Deliverables include an ownable suite of fixtures, a bespoke texture palette and a considered set of brand and navigation graphics to suit a spectrum of markets; culminating in our 150-page global guideline document.

Perricone MD
Adidas Predator x Sports Direct
MONTIREX
Stanley x Go Outdoors
Columbia x SDI
The North Face
National Express
New Balance X JD
MAC x Selfridges
UGG x Selfridges
Adidas Predator

Design Trend Predictions 2025

As a creative retail agency, we constantly track and evaluate activity and ideas; observing how cultural touchpoints evolve.

South Korean Retail Innovation – PART TWO

South Korean retail sets the bar for world-class experiences. Part Two of our report reveals the key elements behind their exceptional design approach.

South Korean Retail Innovation – PART ONE

Celebrated for it’s lively pop culture, internationally acclaimed boy bands and innovative K-Beauty trends, South Korea has sparked a cultural phenomenon, drawing attention from across the globe.

Boomers – Rethinking Purpose.

We’re living in the most age-diverse society in history – and we’re becoming one of the most age-segregated.
Design Trend Predictions 2025
South Korean Retail Innovation – PART TWO
South Korean Retail Innovation – PART ONE
Boomers – Rethinking Purpose.

Experiential Retail

Memorable brand moments.

 

Turning a transaction into an interaction, an experience, delivers a more rewarding and memorable in-store connection.

Sustainable Retail Design

Making mindful choices.

 

Working toward a more circular and less wasteful way of designing and thinking about retail environments and practices.

Store Design

Award-winning environments.

 

With over 20 years of experience, we bring innovation, commerciality, and insight to craft retail designs that perform.

shop design

Pop Up Shops

Leveraging FOMO.

 

Pop-ups offer opportunities for experimentation and can be really effective in making a brand statement with impact to grab attention and create online impressions.

Activations & Retail Product Launches

More than just promotion.

 

With a singular focus and strong central message, activations and events are designed to entertain, to engage, and to leave a lasting impression.

Shop In Shops

Standing out in store.

 

We design shop-in-shop concepts that, any scale in store, provide brand recognition and presence with consistency, quality, and identifiability.

Window Display Design

Sparking curiosity.

 

Great window concept design allows your brand to deliver a strong, singular message with real visual impact; to drive footfall, increase impressions, and delight customers.

Visualisation

Bringing ideas to life.

 

Our design studio can offer a wide variety of visualisation services, from an initial hand-rendered exploration, right through to an immersive VR walkthrough.

Digital Integration

Seamless brand activity.

 

Brining online identity and experiential direction into physical retail environments. Meeting the expectations of digitally native customers with seamless and easy to navigate multi-channel experiences.

Branded Spaces

Ensuring brand visibility.        

    

We’re experts in ensuring visibility and credibility at any scale of execution; delivering brand-owned visual and experiential activity that remains representative of the wider brand world in busy multi-brand environments.

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