A Sonic Site for Sore Eyes is Music to Your Urbanears

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The myriad of messages are presented in a beautifully simple and stylish way allowing the customer to select by lilac, lemon or whatever hue is particularly you.

 

Limited editions combine function and fashion, with the superbly subtly coloured Pumpkin capturing amber audio ambiance ideal for your autumn activities.

Environmental credentials are encapsulated by Platten, where every re-constructed headpiece comes complete with coordinates for your own 5sqkilometres of protected Costa Rican forest packed with rare butterflies, beautiful bugs and special spiders.

On every level UrbanEars is a brand to get your head around.

 

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Every hero has a story!
If you have products that haven’t got a story, have you got a product at all?

 

VM-Unleashed monitors, benchmarks and celebrates best practice to provide the most relevant and expert analysis & conclusions.

Gyroscopical; Chronological; Cosmonautical: Brilliant Breitling

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Time waits for no-one

…and Breitling have wasted no time at all in propelling itself to the forefront of watch design and manufacturing par excellence. Every face tells a story and Breitling communicates every story with style, with integrity and with a precision that complements the design of its watches perfectly.

The new store environment brilliantly combines the precious, authority of the watch displays with powerful store graphics, cartoons reminiscent of the halcien days of aeronautical development. Add to this the beautifully designed fixtures again drawing from the brands aeronautical and engineering heritage and the store is picture perfect, a ticking timepiece of creativity and design excellence.

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History in Black & White: John Lewis Unfolds with Every Footstep

It can’t have escaped many customers that this year marks the John Lewis 150th Anniversary.

 

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In its customary courteous yet engaging way it has communicated effectively through customised bags, exclusive collaborations and a multitude of store events and promotions.

Centre stage literally, stand its “stand-out” anniversary windows, a magnificent understatement in glorious black & white, the backdrop to its colourful stories that span the decades.

A history book unfolds with every step from the dawn of “Ready-to-wear” clothing, the invention & evolution of electrical appliances, through the humble beginning of home furnishing drawing to a million millennium curtain closings. And so into the technological age the narrative unfolds further, dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s on IT, the internet and e-commerce.

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Omni-channel to all things and all people, many lines read in black and white ensure a bottom one permanently positioned in the black.

Sports Brands: Go Direct to Oxford Street

Sweet music for sports brand fans in the site of the old HMV on Oxford Street as Sports Direct opens its new flagship store.

 

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The discount sports brand retailer has big stores already but this three floor testament to sporting testosterone celebrates every activity from fitness and training, through to trecking and fishing with a sizeable assortment of fashion thrown in for good measure.

On its home turf of sportswear and performance footwear, a resounding victory can be anticipated as the familiar discount prices are supplemented with powerful brand statements, physically from floor to ceiling, and emotionally cementing brand presence and authority from Adidas to Nike, from Lonsdale to Reebok, from Everlast to Slazenger.

Every statement is large and dominant;  football replica kits paint walls with familiar colours and motifs, categories of caps as far as the eye can see and a department for bags and luggage that stretches to any destination.

Perhaps even more impressive is the retailer’s away form, fielding appropriately a new, expanded and spectacular outdoors assortment, with Karrimor the star of the show from footwear to fleeces, supported admirably with everything from fishing rods to camouflage suits, and the decisive move into casual fashion with a dedicated denim department, Pulp t-shirts, fashion footwear brands and a surprise re-appearance of the SoulCal fashion brand.

 

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With a background team well on the ball and sporting services such as shirt and footwear customisation, this familiar face will be sending shockwaves through the sporting establishment.

Pretty Amazing: Fits.me makes ’em Green with Envy

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The fun continues with the revolutionary Fits.Me function on the stunning Pretty Green website where customers input their shape and can then see exactly how each type of shirt would look on their frame.

Sustainable technology with continued benefits and results – conversions up, returns drastically down and customers sold forever on the idea of Fits.Me

 

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Happy Anniversary: John Lewis Never Knowingly Undertold.

Perfect timing for John Lewis, as a notable anniversary coincides with the best ever period for the UKs favourite retailer.

 

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As at home in the omni-channel world as it once was in its humble drapers shop the retailer goes from strength to strength breaking commercial thresholds and competitors hearts. To celebrate with style the flagship London store is bedecked in banners from head to toe, with exclusive products, special collaborations and limited edition bags in pastel blues, aqua greens and orange hues.

This store has a story to tell and the windows give a running commentary, a chronological dialogue to the events and innovations that have shaped the retailer from the 1860s. But this is not just some happy ending, but an ongoing saga, no overnight sensation but a timeless tale where the demons of downturns, the spectres of recession are vanquished and repelled, and where “once upon a time” turns always into “happy ever after.”

 

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Life has never been better at John Lewis in a story never knowingly undertold.

Pinterest Gallery: Designs on the Future, Digital Debenhams

Debenhams develops into the multi-channel arena delivering a blueprint for the future in its fully re-furbished flagship store.

 

Building on its Designers for Debenhams the retailer embarks on a renewed and re-energised celebration of is unique proposition with larger footprints, distinct decoration and more potent graphic communication. In a celebration of service, cash desks and corporate spaces are celebrated in bright hues, heralding a physical and strategic return to service.

 

Follow VM-unleashed! Ltd’s board Designs on the Future: Digital Debenhams on Pinterest.

 

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Take a YouTube tour through Digital Debenhams

Debenhams develops into the multi-channel arena delivering a blueprint for the future in its fully re-furbished flagship store.

Building on its Designers for Debenhams the retailer embarks on a renewed and re-energised celebration of is unique proposition with larger footprints, distinct decoration and more potent graphic communication. In a celebration of service, cash desks and corporate spaces are celebrated in bright hues, heralding a physical and strategic return to service.

 

 

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Designs on the Future: Digital Debenhams

Debenhams develops into the multi-channel arena delivering a blueprint for the future in its fully re-furbished flagship store.

 

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Building on its Designers for Debenhams the retailer embarks on a renewed and re-energised celebration of is unique proposition with larger footprints, distinct decoration and more potent graphic communication. In a celebration of service, cash desks and corporate spaces are celebrated in bright hues, heralding a physical and strategic return to service.

At the core of the new design is the presence of an omni-channel offering with a dedicated click and collect service area and a scattering of terminals in key departments allowing the customer to browse and order directly from the store. The in-store initiatives coordinate with a new e-commerce revamp as this traditionally strong performer plays its classic hand in the only game in town.

Designers at Debenhams, with designs on the future.

 

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