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Merchandising the Museum

Kusi — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:21 +0000

We have great fun working at the British Museum with their Head of Retail. Recent projects have included designing and producing various merchandising units to add excitement to their shop interiors.

Shown here is a prop bath used to display historically themed rubber ducks, a huge iPhone to merchandise iPhone cases, a sarcophagus to display Egyptian themed pencil cases, a book stand for their Shakespeare exhibition, a unit to display gladiator toy shields and swords and a display to promote merchandise for the museum’s current Pompeii exhibition.

Fred Perry – Bradley Wiggins Collection

Kusi — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:52:06 +0000

PLAN were approached by Fred Perry to produce the window design for the Spring Summer 2013 Bradley Wiggins Collection. In keeping with the Olympic champion and 2012 Tour de France winner’s sporting roots, the scheme incorporated a series of interlocking multi-coloured racing bike wheels which acted not only as a visual backdrop, but also as a mechanism for displaying stock.

Each wheel was sourced, de-greased and specially customised by PLAN. Spokes were removed and individually hand painted in a series of multi colours, rims were powder coated and some had a photographic print of the cycling champion set inside. A metal thread was developed which spaced the wheels evenly then locked them together, creating the illusion that the wheels were floating once they were suspended for from the ceiling.

The cycle inspired scheme was shipped to Authentic stores globally.

In a Spin at Selfridges

Kusi — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:44:52 +0000

We were happy to help Selfridges with 2 moving windows for their recent shoe carnival windows. We have years of experience in producing moving windows and this gained experience means we are able to provide problem free movement. These windows for Selfridges ran for over six weeks without any problems. PLAN produced the smooth moving mechanism, the plinths and curtains were provided by Selfridges.

Fiat 500L Preview Window

Kusi — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 11:23:37 +0000

We had great fun working on this preview window for the Fiat 500L which launches early 2013. The winter wonderland set was designed, produced and installed by PLAN and can be seen at Fiat’s flagship London showroom. The set consists of a striking floor graphic in ice-blue and white, free standing acrylic trees illuminated with bright white strip lights and an impactful 500L sign made out of red & silver acrylic mirror. The star of the show, the Fiat 500L car, is raised up to create maximum impact from the street.

3D Letters, Glitter and 18,000 Robins!

planadmin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:30:47 +0000

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 to stand on the floor of the windows and as such needed to be large, bold and eye catching. This was achieved using various finishes including glitter, mirror card, metallic blue, red & white stripes and flashing LED lights. The 3D letters were complimented with illustrated robins from their Christmas ad. campaign and Ho Ho Ho bunting for in-store.

The end result was was a bold, impactful, fun and flexible campaign and very fitting to celebrate our 10 years of working with Carphone Warehouse.

Attention!

planadmin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:35:58 +0000

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 software package – Vector Works. From this design we were able to sculpt an original Nutcracker from which a mould was created allowing a platoon of identical Nutcrackers to be cast out of glass reinforced plastic. Each figure was then sanded by hand and sprayed with a deep gloss white finish resulting in a immaculately turned out Nutcracker. To finish off we applied a mirror gold logo to the breast pocket of each figure. The Nutcrackers were then dispatched to Berlin, Paris and across the UK.

The Fred Perry team were very happy with the end result and we were delighted to receive the following quote from them…

“Thank you for making it exactly as I imagined…”

Stand at ease!

Schuh Christmas…Ding Dong!

planadmin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:06:10 +0000

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 instructions were supplied by PLANarama to allow store staff to install the schemes to a very high standard.

Schuh’s flagship store on London’s Oxford Street had the star treatment with extra chasing and flashing lights and bespoke vintage bauble merchandising units all finished in sparkling glitter…..Ding Dong!

Frosty shaking his booty all around the world!

planadmin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:35:07 +0000

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 from the illustrators artwork and his shaking booty was engineered with precision to create a smooth and seamless movement.

Frosty’s cheeky antics are creating laughter all around the world and PLANarama loves this!

Christmas at Tate Modern and The British Museum

planadmin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:12:16 +0000

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 commercial retail experience.

For Tate Modern and Tate Britain we developed a concept inspired from a star product sold in their shops. The star design was developed into hanging cardboard stars in red and white which were complimented with vinyl stars applied to the windows of the shops and star header panels placed on the store fixtures.

The British Museum Christmas was inspired by their famous Egyptian department for which we developed a striking graphic in mirror gold – we even had ‘Happy Christmas’ translated into hieroglyphics!

We are looking forward to developing more relationships within the museum and gallery sector.

Ted’s Global Fatal Attraction

Kusi — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 10:14:03 +0000

Ted’s Autumn window campaign was focused on their Autumn/Winter photo shoot set in woodland. The scheme which rolled out across the world featured handmade arrows with real feather flights and bows finished in grey suede and ribbon. The floor was finished with an eco-friendly forest floor covering made from recycled car tyres and real logs were adapted into plinths to display accessories. The back drops were bespoke to each of the stores with a peel off layer to allow a change of image midway through the campaign.

The ‘Fatal Attraction’ strapline was recreated in the window using a male mannequin lying on the floor with an arrow in his heart…