Design magazine Dezeen has created a new Pinterest board that’s dedicated to shops, including the best boutiques, bakeries, bookstores, and even florists. The growing collection allows users to browse through shops from around the world that have interesting store layout, or a great retail concept. These include the Tokyo Bike store with its clean and neat layout, the Aesop store with its wall-to-ceiling of falling boxes, and the minimalistic Pleats Please store, just to name a few.
Usually public toilets, and chemical toilets in particular, never reserve nice surprises. You get in, and you try to get out as soon as possible. The story of this chemical toilet installed in Milan during the recent Design Week is different. It’s an IKEA toilet
Elle has launched a shoppable trend guide on Facebook in the latest of several ecommerce initiatives within the magazine industry. The guide, embedded as a tab on Elle's FaceBook page invites shoppers to navigate across six editorially chosen spring trends, including floral, nautical and ladylike. Users can click “love,”
Instead of adding another “happy birthday!” comment to your friends’ Facebook walls, a startup called Wrapp wants you to post a free gift certificate for stores such as Gap, Sephora or H&M — as long as your friend meets the brand’s target demographic. Brands offer gift
Often lost in the montage of mainstream trends are hidden gems waiting for the right moment to shine. Finally, that moment is now here in the form of adidas Originals White Space Project. Both a Spring 2012 marketing campaign and platform for self expression, adidas Originals asked
What's in a brand name? Well, it turns out, a lot. Did you know that people rate the identical beverage as tastier when it's in a "Coke" can than in a "Pepsi" can? This, and other juicy "behind the scenes" tidbits of information, are being
Forever21 Times Square Billboard from space150 on Vimeo. When a popular fashion brand moves into an iconic location in the world’s most famous square, it calls for something epic. Something shocking. Something disruptive. Something that the hundreds of thousands of people who pass through Times Square
New Balance have launched a permanent retail installation at it’s Experience Store in Boston, near to the finish line of the Boston Marathon (which took place yesterday). The digital board enhances the brand’s support of the local running community and can be viewed by people who pass
From social platforms to brand advocacy Pinterest is the first social network that appears to have the potential to directly drive sales, but retailers will need to know how to harness its users’ creative urges. The next big thing in social networking seems to crop up with
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