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The Design Solution works on St Petersburg airport terminal

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 | By Tom Banks

The Design Solution is working on a 13500m2 retail concept for a new international terminal at Pulkovo airport in St Petersburg, Russia.

Portland in Caffè Ritazza overhaul

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 | By Angus Montgomery

Portland is working to overhaul the customer experience for the Caffè Ritazza brand of coffee shops, found at railway stations and airports around the world.

Air Design works on Chinese retail destination branding

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 | By Emily Gosling

Air Design has been appointed to work on branding, wayfinding and digital strategy for the Wuhan Tiandi Riverview Plaza retail destination on the east coast of China.

Design LSM works on Lacoste Knightsbridge flagship concept

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 | By Emily Gosling

Design LSM is developing a new the flagship store for French fashion brand Lacoste, which is due to open in London’s Knightsbridge in April.

Treasure

This week's news in brief round-up

Fri, 6 Jan 2012

A round-up of this week’s news in brief.

Surge in applications to art and design courses, but numbers remain down

Thu, 5 Jan 2012 | By Angus Montgomery

There has been an increase in the number of applications to creative arts and design university courses starting in September, but applications are still down by almost 15 per cent from a year ago.

Design industry predictions for 2012 - Part two

Wed, 4 Jan 2012

In the second part of our series of design industry predictions for 2012, leading industry figures tell us what they think will happen in product design, retail, furniture design, editorial design and exhibition design.

Free pitches on the increase as client budgets drop, report shows

Tue, 3 Jan 2012 | By Angus Montgomery

Design consultancies are increasingly being asked to work on creative pitches for free as client budgets drop, according to a new report.

Boxpark

Review of the year - Pop-ups

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 | By Emily Gosling

In her insight piece for us in January 2011, Julie Oxberry, managing director of Household Design, pointed to the pop-up concept as one of this year’s retail ‘must haves’, and it seems she was making a very prescient claim.

aerial view of Westfield Stratford

Review of the year - Retail design

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 | By Emily Gosling

Design Week’s review of the year in retail design.

B Store opens new London flagship store

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 | By Angus Montgomery

Fashion brand B Store has opened a new flagship store in London, featuring interior designs by Tom Finch and Pablo Limon.

shoes in the hallway screenshot

Design 4 Retail creates house-based interiors concept for Red or Dead

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 | By Emily Gosling

Fashion brand Red or Dead has appointed Leicester-based consultancy Design 4 Retail to create a store interiors concept to aid its potential expansions into physical retails spaces over the coming year.

High Street

News analysis - The Portas Review of the High Street

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 | By Angus Montgomery

The key message from the Portas Review of the UK high street, conducted by TV star and retail expert Mary Portas, is, in the words of Portas, that ‘high streets of the future must be the hub of the community’.

Shed

Shed designs Ireland’s largest shoe department

Tue, 6 Dec 2011 | By Tom Banks

Interior consultancy Shed has developed the retail design for a Kurt Geiger concession in Dublin department store Arnotts, making what it claims will be the largest shoe department in Ireland.

Buffet

Mystery designs Britain’s biggest restaurant

Fri, 2 Dec 2011 | By Emily Gosling

Consultancy Mystery has created the concept, branding, website and interiors for Za Za Bazaar, a new venue in Bristol which is reported to be Britain’s largest restaurant.