How will immersive digital experiences transform retail design? Let’s explore how we might reconceive of the humble fitting room experience. Let’s imagine how we might use the full complement tools: Put together, we can envision sumptuous immersive digital experiences at … Continue reading reimagining fitting rooms
A quick field report from my visit to Euroshop 2023 in Dusseldorf, Germany! Long story short: I saw tremendous innovation in lighting and digital media technologies throughout the show floor – but unfortunately with the notable exception of Hall 9 … Continue reading euroshop 2023
Here’s a short video summarizing my “six trends” concepts – using lots of eye-candy from my own previous project work. This video turned out to be a hybrid crossover of thought leadership with my own professional portfolio. A portfolio of … Continue reading six hot trends in lighting
There’s something about this Clinique retail design concept by Amsterdam-based UXUS that really caught my eye: It just seems to be “oozing luminosity” out of every nook, cranny, sign box and shelf surface. Overall, it creates a powerful effect. I … Continue reading clinique laboratories by UXUS
Looking through my old project folders, I ran across an interesting unrealized design concept: An interactive retail display for Virgin Mobile. It was a display stand for cell phones that used proximity sensors to trigger an illuminated product shelf and … Continue reading from my archives: interactive display concept for virgin mobile
The ceiling design of this department store by H2R design in Abu Dhabi really captured my attention. The ceiling is a segmented series of coves, completed with rounded outer frames and curved inner scallops blending from vertical to the horizontal … Continue reading hob department store in ahu dhabi
Thanks to James McHale and the team at Memoori for hosting a great webinar! If you missed it live, listen to it now at your convenience at this link. Really, I should have picked a different title, because the 6 … Continue reading 6 disruptive lighting trends: recorded webinar
Here’s a rather unusual strategy: Today I’m going to giveaway a startup pitch! Back in 2016, I sketched up a quick pitch deck for what I saw as the future of digital signage for big-box and grocery store applications. At … Continue reading smart signage concept for retail shelving
I’ve already talked about the convergence of lighting, audio and video content systems in modern architectural projects. Here is a new example, at the discrete scale of small retail. Piri is a new line from Sweden-based Nordic Light that combines … Continue reading piri
Last week I had a few free hours to explore Berlin and Versace’s new store in the Kurfürstendamm high-street area really caught my eye. They make use of decorative surface-mount track lighting that becomes a very brand-appropriate addition to the architecture, while … Continue reading versace store berlin
Check out my posting “Layers of Eye Candy” on Philips Lighting’s Future of Light blog where I explore using layers of embedded lighting in retail applications. Continue reading layers of eye candy
PERCH is a New York-based startup led by MIT-alum Jared Schiffman which is developing interactive retail displays that combine a variety of sensing technologies, digital displays, projections, physical product and digital content into a sleek consumer experience. Clearly reminiscent of the … Continue reading perch
Via my UK-based Linked-In colleagues: A great article/recap in Lux Magazine of a presentation by Sainsbury’s Mark Hawker, Head of Engineering. Sainsbury is a large grocery retailer in the UK; the article briefly mentions that they’ve opened a 100% LED … Continue reading half of lighting suppliers don’t understand their products
No wonder James Bond likes Aston Martin cars: It must be the lighting when you pick up the car. Wired has a great post about how Aston Martin builds their $1.7m One-77 supercar in a laboratory-clean facility. But the part I … Continue reading aston martin’s OLED room
If you ever need a great source of lighting reference images, check out the Awards section of the Association for Retail Environments site. The Awards section is stocked full of many years of award-winning projects, neatly organized and loaded with … Continue reading Association for Retail Environments: Awards Archive
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