Best of 2020: A retrospective design gallery
Visual Merchandising and Retail Design|December 2020
Finally a challenging year, unprecedented by most standards, comes to a close. Most years have their ups and downs. But 2020 has been unique in that many of us have had to really scramble to see the ups. Retail, being a mirror of the economy, showed all that the pandemic could do to market sentiments. And yet there were store openings, store expansion and store design projects. Hats offto the men and women who brought forth their creativity despite the pall of gloom around. As a tribute to the grit and tireless zeal of everyone involved in the retail eco-system, we present a retrospective gallery of the best from our coverage of Indian and international store design projects this year. All of them may not have been executed this year but they have all made their appearance in our pages this year…so go ahead and enjoy this retrospective visual treat presented in the order of the months in which they got featured.
Best of 2020: A retrospective design gallery

Ather

Experiential ride anyone?: How does one create an experiential design flow in an automotive showroom? Well Bangalore-based electric scooter manufacturer Ather Energy has opened its second Experience Center in Chennai, which is all about a seamless experience. Designed by Studio Lotus, the 4000 sq ft Ather Space is a complete guide book to Ather Energy’s journey and their milestone products.

Logic Display

How about some ‘tech-aesthetics’?: Logic Display’s futuristic experience centre in Bangalore is in essence a hi-tech theater. Designed by Four Dimensions Retail Design, the IOT_enabled, 5,120 sqft store is all about creating an immersive lifestyle environment and won a Gold at the prestigious VMRD Awards 2020 in the Category of ‘Consumer Durables, IT & telecom- Specialty store’.

Prada

Say it with green: Italian fashion house Prada has teamed up with Parisian department store Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann to create a special project dubbed ‘Hyper Leaves’ and executed two popup retail displays at the store and 15 original windows that are inspired by wild nature.

Flying Machine

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