Apple Store Play Set

An Actual Playmobil Apple Store Play Set!!! Haha!

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D'Espresso Cafe

Inspired by the nearby Bryant Park Library, nema workshop designed a store that is straightforward in a simple twisted way – Take a library and turn it SIDEWAYS. The booklined shelves become the floor and ceilings and wood floor ends up on the walls meanwhile the pendants protrude sideways from the wall. To achieve the books shelves on the floor, the space is lined with sepia-toned full size photograph of books printed on custom tiles.

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15th Avenue E Coffee & Tea by Starbucks

Repurposed and reimagined, Starbucks has gone back to basics with the launch of their 15th Avenue E Coffee and Tea store. The first of three experimental stores in Seattle, this Capitol Hill location loses the ubiquitous Starbucks branding and adopts the ambience of a traditional neighborhood coffeehouse. Completely gutted and redesigned using a plethora of recycled, reclaimed and refurbished eco-friendly materials, this old store is now primed and ready to play neighborhood host to live music and poetry readings.

Is anyone loving this as much as I am? Gorgeous....

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Spring Sprouts: Galeria Jorge Juan Welcomes Spring!

Galeria Jorge Juan, a shopping institution in the centre of Valencia, welcomes spring with an incredible installation. Flowers emerge from the buildings facade. They sprout from the joints of the tiles making their way among the huge shopping bags announcing the start of the new season.

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Black And White Whimsical Illustrations by Johanna Basford

Johanna Basford creates intricate drawings of imagined botanicals intertwined with a flutter of butterflies giving a traditional ‘Damask’ a contemporary edge.

She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee in 2005 and DKNY installed her ‘Crazy Botanic’ wallpaper in their Bond Street store in the DKNY &Wallpaper* New Designers showcase during London Fashion Week in the same year.

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GAP Upside Down Store

"Shopping turned on its head" isn't just a meaningless tagline for GAP. They literally mean it. To promote their new loyalty program, Sprize, the GAP in Vancouver, BC turned its entire store upside-down. All of the mannequins, displays and even the sign were flipped, as well as some cars and a hotdog stand outside of the store.

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Happy Pills!? Sweet Happiness in Sugar-Pill Supplements

A candy store (and associated product series) designed by Studio M in Spain to treat the more mild forms of day-to-day depression in casual shoppers.

From the products to the packaging, everything is themed around prescription medication – pill-shaped sweets, boxes, containers and entire to-go cartons for the most serious of cases.

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McFancy

"McFancy is an upmarket temporary McDonald’s store that launches at Fashion Weeks around the globe — London, New York, Paris, Milan, Sydney, Hong Kong. McFancy is part art installation, gathering spot and, of course, a restaurant that offers a traditional McDonald’s menu but packaged in a way that makes a playful yet stylish nod to the lifestyle of the highly desirable, influential consumers that attend Fashion Weeks."

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Apple's Window Display

Apple's window displays shatters all our preconceived notions on what a store window should look like. For its new iPod Hi-Fi, it simulated a broken window in front of a iPod Hi-Fi sound component!


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IKEA's Brilliant Facebook Campaign

Here's the story.

IKEA opened a new store in Malmo, Sweden and didn't have a lot of money to advertise about it or let people know about it. So they hired a small advertising agency called Forsman and Bodenfors to create a special launch campaign.

Now, what the agency did was that it created a Facebook profile for the store manager, Gordon Gustavsson. and over a period of 2 weeks, it uploaded images from IKEA showrooms to his Facebook photo album. Then they announced that the first person to tag their name to a product in the pictures, won it.

Before you knew it, word got out and thousands of Swedes were begging for more pictures so they could tag themselves a new sofa, a new bed etc. At this point, thousands of Swedes, were spreading pictures of IKEA showrooms all around their profile pages!

Genius!

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Ferrari F1 Car Made From Puma Clothing

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I Heart Pantone

For you non-designers out there, Pantone is a trademark. Its a system for matching colors, used in specifying printing inks: Pantone colors.
As for you designers, wouldnd't you just love to have the whole collection?!

Actually, I was recently in Milan, wondering if I should my colleagues at work the typical "milanese panettone", but I thought it would just be a hassle for me to carry and manage in the plane. Its quite big. If I had seen those however (last picture), I wouldn't have hesitated a bit!