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3D Letters, Glitter and 18,000 Robins!

3D Letters, Glitter and 18,000 Robins!

PLANarama is celebrating its 10th Christmas together with The Carphone Warehouse and this year’s window is a show stopper! Producing window sets for over 800 stores takes a great deal of planning.  We presented our designs back in the summer and the Ho Ho Ho concept was an instant hit.  The 3D letters were designed...
Attention!

Attention!

Sometimes simplicity with high end finishing can create a stunning end result.  This is certainly the case with our Fred Perry, Nutcracker toy soldier Christmas window. Fred Perry approached us with their concept and asked PLANarama to realise their vision.  We understood straight away what was required, firstly the Nutcrackers were designed using the 3D...
Schuh Christmas...Ding Dong!

Schuh Christmas…Ding Dong!

Working withe the strap-line “Ding Dong” PLANarama designed and produced a nationwide window campaign for footwear retailer Schuh. The scheme for 70+ stores was inspired by vintage Christmas decorations in a cool blue-green colour palette.  Extra sparkle was injected with loads of glitter highlights, silver holographic tinsel, mirror card and flashing LED lights. Comprehensive installation...
Frosty shaking his booty all around the world!

Frosty shaking his booty all around the world!

Ted’s Christmas window is a cheeky take on the Holiday Season. Frosty the snowman is performing a striptease on stage and is animated to shake his booty throughout the Holidays. The scheme was sent out from London to 58 Ted Baker stores around the world including out first Christmas window in Beijing.  Frosty was lovingly sculpted...
Christmas at Tate Modern and The British Museum

Christmas at Tate Modern and The British Museum

  We enjoy bringing our commercial high street skills to the shops of prestigious galleries and museums. This year we were approached by Tate Enterprises as they were impressed with our previous work that we have produced for The British Museum, The National Gallery, Kew Gardens and Dulwich Picture Gallery- backed up with our sound...
A Night at the Museum(s)!

A Night at the Museum(s)!

For Christmas this year as well as our regular high street brands, we are happy to announce Christmas projects for The National Gallery, British Museum, The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew and our old friend’s at Dulwich Picture Gallery. For each of these prestigious institutions we have designed, produced and installed bespoke projects. The National Gallery...
Christmas Sparkle at Carphone Warehouse

Christmas Sparkle at Carphone Warehouse

We can’t quite believe that this will be the 9th Christmas we have worked with Carphone Warehouse. For this year we developed artwork from their Christmas advertising campaign into elements for the windows and in-store. We gave a 30mm depth to the free standing snowmen allowing an iridescent glitter edge to be added to emphasise...
Top Man Suitcases

Top Man Suitcases

Topman approached us with an inspirational moodboard they wanted PLAN to develop. After extensive research experimenting with different spray paints we came up with a winning paint finish which we applied to over 50 suitcases. As the height of the overall structure was so high we had to develop an internal metal structure to hold...
Display Fit for a Royal Wedding

Display Fit for a Royal Wedding

Gieves & Hawkes asked us for some help to come up with a ‘Summer inspired’ in-store display at Selfridges to communicate their involvement in past Royal weddings and to highlight their role in the current Royal Wedding. We came up with the idea of creating a simple topiary hedge which displayed dressed bustforms with a...
Kendals Celebrates 175 Years!

Kendals Celebrates 175 Years!

House of Fraser approached PLANarama to design and create a massive exterior sign for their Flagship Manchester Store, Kendals. They wanted to create maximum impact so we opted for a simple and strong black and white colour palette. With maximum impact in mind, we realised the scale needed to be super big- the ‘175’ numbers...
UNIQLO - UT 2011 Launch Campaign

UNIQLO – UT 2011 Launch Campaign

“Art, music, photography, design, manga, characters, brands.” T-shirts bringing today’s culture to the world. That’s UT. To launch such a diverse range of T-shirts including Disney, Antoni & Alison, Bigbang, Care Bears and Cath Kidson, Uniqlo asked PLANarama to supply and install various stacks of retro televisions finished with fluorescent colours and UT brands –...
Ted’s Stocking Thriller

Ted’s Stocking Thriller

We are pleased to announce we have successfully and smoothly shipped out 55 Christmas window sets around the world for Ted Baker. The concept originated from the iconic Marylyn Monroe photograph, where Marylyn’s skirt was blown up by an air vent in New York. This image was adapted to one of Ted’s favourite Christmas characters,...