Reuse display ideas

Display Ideas

Bulbs

This image is of a window display that utilizes recycled light bulbs.  Several would be hung apart from the ceiling.  Others would be in a declining pile on either the left or right side of the window.   Some of the bulbs would be lit randomly to create a sparkled flow.  I thought this would be very eye catching and utilize something that can't always be recycled, but shouldn't just be thrown away.

This is an example of the end display that would go with the Bulbs window display.  Their would be bulbs.  They would be installed in any shape on the wall again lighting a couple of them.  

Wildflower

This was inspired by my inspiration collage found on the previous post.  I really really love this and I think that it would definitely grab someones attention and draw them into the store.   The top part of the window are hanging close lines that will have cloth clipped on them that has words stitched on it.  The bottom part is made up of the image and actual 3D flowers that overwhelm the wall.  Some of the 3D flowers act as displays for shoes or bags. 
The mannequin would be reaching out and grabbing a flower.

This is an example of an end display that would go with the wildflower window display.  Again It would repeat the use of clothes lines and scraps of cloth.  As shown in picture a bigger piece of cloth would have woman or men or children stitched larger in it. 

Be Inspired!

Our project this week was to dream BIG!  We are continuing our research for the Salvation Army Select store and how we can make this store truly one of kind.  We were to find inspiration wherever we could.  "compose a symphony, sim the english channel, see a movie, fly the friendly skies" etc.  I wasn't looking for inspiration when I decided to watch the movie PS I love you on sat. afternoon.  However it was in this movie that I found inspiration in the lost and hurt soul of Hillary Swank's character Holly.  This movie is filled with laughter, heartbreak, and romance.  The scenery of the movie as well as the style of the characters in the movie is very Chique with a little bit of rocker in it.  I thought that these two styles my be completly opposite in the fashion world but they actually fit together very well.  This is important to look at when designing the Salvation Army Select store since we will be getting donations of all sort of styles.  That may be a challenge for us as designers in how do we arrange all these different styles and sizes to be cohesive with the store and really carry on the boutique sort of image.  I found a number of images that sum up my inpiration from the PS I love you movie and how that could be transformed into a store.
 

Attention Attention Attention!!!

This past Wed. in class we each chosen a particular goerilla marketing project to follow through on.  I chose the group that will be working on fixing up furniture.  I love finding old things and making something beautiful out of them so I thought this would be my chance to do it for a great cause.   So we will be buying old furniture (hopefully we will be able to get some from other Salvation Army stores)  and fixing it up to raffle off to people.  Our idea is to give raffle tickets to people who bring in donations.

We had a lot of investigation to do.  We needed to know 1) how were we going to pay for the used furniture and supplies.  2) How would we get attention to our project?

We decided that we needed to advertise a lot.  You know bring us in something and you could win!... type of thing.  We decided we need to see if we could use the empty store front windows near the Salvation Army select store to do a window display of the items we'll be raffling.  These can be chairs, desks, tables, etc.  Also we will need some sort of signage to direct attention to this campain hoping that people will come to donate b/c they want this raffle ticket.  We're also hoping that we can get some sort of pass saying we're working for salvation army and maybe other salvation army stores will give us some furniture pieces, or we can find discount paints and thrown away wall paper samples or anything to fix these pieces up.  We will be focusing on a sleek, clean, chic look.  We're also kind of hoping after talking to another class that we will be able to put some pieces in the select store to sell when it opens.  Chairs that are sitting by the dressing room for example or jewelry boxes.

If you have any suggestions or would love to donate to help Salvation Army select please leave me a comment!

Salvation Army Select proposal

 

 

 I found that a lot of people don't really truly know what Salvation Army does.  I think this is very important when it comes to donation.  Everyone knows that yes they do the santa thing with the bell every christmas and yes they do disaster relief.  But they do a lot more than that.  Salvation Army also has youth camps set up around the US to help give opportunity's to children that normally won't get those opportunity's.  They also have a lot of rehabilitation organizations that help with prisoner's and giving them a second chance as well as drug and alcohol addicts.  Salvation army does a lot that I never knew they did.  I think these are important facts that can be used to draw people's attention to donate if not clothes money.  I propose a disk like object that can be 3D or 2D, however I thin 3D would work better.  On one side of the disk it would say something that salvation Shields people from.  Like Sheild me from Prison.  And on the other side it would say what salvation army is granting you in return for Prison.  Like Grant me a Secong Chance.

Timepiece

 

top view 

  

left side 

  

front view 

This week for my revisioning retail class we were to come up with 3 final ideas for a time piece in our retail space.  Keeping in mind our concept that was given to us and what we had already designed for the store.  The above one is a solution I came up with for my checkout desk.  It would be a series of transparent cubes measuring 6" x 6"x 6" and each one would have a light bulb in them.  Depending on what time it was the cubes in the first row would transform and push out.  Each cube would have a light in them and only the ones pushed forward displaying the time would be lit red.  When not pushed out the cube would be white just like all the other ones.  Kind of like a giant rubics cube.

 

view looking up 

 

side views

 

Second idea would be installed on the ceiling and lighted up tiles would display the time.

 

front view 

 

top view 

This wardrobe is already in my space and it would display the time on one of them at a time.  However the location of the time would change every min.

Kick It!

    So this week in my re visioning retail class we were each given a concept and a product.  With this information we had to make a materials board.  My concept was arcade games and I as selling shoes and socks/stockings.  I first researched the topic of arcade games and came up with two possible era's that I could focus my design around.  The first was the 20's and 30's when the pin ball machine first came out.  It was made of all wood and it was very mechanical.  These pictures would have been my inspiration if I were to take this route.

  

 

The second was in the late 70's early 80's when arcade games and video games just exploded.  Every kid was playing at the arcade.  Things became electrical instead of mechanical and new vibrant colors were used.  This was the era I chose to focus my design on.  I found a very inspirational picture on flickr which pretty much started my whole design.

After finding this picture I started to research some of the products that I wanted to sell and who I wanted to sell it to.  Since I chose the 70's and 80's era I decided to sell to the youth.  Sneakers and socks like this:

 

From there I started to form my space.  I knew I wanted to add aspects of certain arcade games, like the maze of pac man, and the flicker things that block the balls of pin ball.  So I chose to create my own display for the sneakers that was almost in a maze shape and was a game to try to reach the shoe you wanted.  I decided to imprint my inspiration image on the side of the display.  Different colors gradually turning into another color.  I also flipped this display and hung it from the ceiling to make it feel like the center of the room.  Next I designed cabinets/drawers that would line the side walls.  The doors of these cabinets would stick out 5" in the center and would be 8" apart.  The would never completely shut or open so when pulling something out of these cabinets like socks the doors would snap back to their position.  I next chose my floor, furniture, and lighting.