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The Power of Windows

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Welcome to the third instalment in our series of quick guides to navigate this new retail landscape.

Today we're talking about Windows. They let the world know what your brand is about, without having to set foot on the shop floor.

Maximise their potential for engagement and capitalise on a captive audience queueing outside stores. Use them to connect with your consumers: send a bold message, start a conversation, and consider technological innovations to augment the experience.
Nail Your Tone of Voice

Retail Now: The Power of Windows

Consumers are now hyper-aware of whether a brand’s tone of voice is genuine. Speak with honesty, stay true to your brand values, and offer moments of hope and complentation.

Harvey Nichols launched a campaign to tease the imminent reopening of stores, spotlighting three simple, hopeful statements centred around the exploration of new beginnings.

Harvey Nicholls store window displays
Harvey Nichols
Standout retail window design: 4,573 Hot Looks for Fall, Barneys New York
Barneys New York
Louis Vuitton store window design: Rainbow Project
Louis Vuitton
Offer A Moment of Escape

Recent life has been dull and sometimes difficult at times, offer shoppers a remedy and an escape from the mundane. Create playful and surreal scenes which transport the viewer to other worlds.

Hermès transported visitors of London’s Bond Street into outer space with a series of windows featuring technology which tracks visitors faces and animates them onto the surface of the moon, leaving earth projected from a life-size astronauts suit.

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Hermes-Designer-Window-Display-Design-Bond-St-London
Extend Your Shoppable Space

Capitalise on a captive audience and time-hungry shoppers with windows that allow consumers to browse products and purchase without ever entering the store. Incorporate additional immersive and interactive features to deepen the experience.

Zara brought seamless shoppable technology to the high street with their Shop The Look campaign. Shoppers simply pointed their phone cameras at the augmented window to purchase product instantly with one touch.

Zara 'Shop the Look' display window campaign
Make A Statement + Supersize It

Consumers are continuing to seek out brands which behave consciously, the pandemic has escalated these feelings further. Place these bold, meaningful messages front and centre. Take the opportunity to extend your message beyond the confines of a window to the entire store facade. Capitalise on a captive audience with queues appearing down the world’s shopping streets.

Dior coated their iconic Avenue Montaigne store in Paris with slogans of female empowerment, in remembrance and celebration of the Paris riots of May 1968.

Dior store window display design Paris
Dior designer window display design
Interested in learning more?
Download the full report to discover how you can create more impact for less budget with a smart evolving window kit, how to use your windows to co-create content and extend the reach of your stories.

RETAIL NOW: The Power of Windows Services

How can we help you connect through your windows?

  • • Design, fabricate and install eye catching, inspiring window and facade installations that powerfully communicate your stories

  • • Design and build digitally integrated, augmented and shoppable window displays

  • • Create an evolving window kit of parts which allows for multiple updates to tell specific stories over time
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