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Ideas for Window Displays

Karen Henry Colour Form Mannequins Planning Shape techniques Visual merchandising window display

Visual merchandising is a marketing practice in which the brand or image from one product or service is used to sell another.  Merchandising itself is selling products that are related to the core business. For example, selling baseball caps at a baseball game is merchandising. Visual merchandising are the ways in which merchandise is sold. Visual merchandising is creating attractive displays and careful placement of visual elements - which can be anything - photos, pictures, sofas, lighting, to increase sales of merchandise. It is a well known that the human eye is naturally attracted to colours and shapes.The famous Russian artist Kandinsky created abstract...

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Wellington Boot Fashion 2007 - 2012

Karen Henry 2012 Design Fashion News Rain boots Trends Wellington Boots

Fashion Wellington Boots (2007 - 2012) This article covers the years 2007 to 2012. We've been tracking Wellington Boot fashion trends since 2007. Each new season brings new Wellington Boot designs. We take the most popular Wellington boot fashion trends and include them on this page each new season. Classic Ladies & men's green Dunlop wellington boots, wellies, gardening, rain, rubber - Winter 2012 Low cost, reliable, classic green wellies for women and men. Ladies and men's green Dunlop wellington boots, wellies, gardening, rain, rubber. Patent Quilted Wellies - Summer 2012 Funky Festival Wellies Wellington Boots Black Quilted Gloss Hunter Wellies...

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Transparent Concrete

Karen Henry Cement Concrete Design Engineering Materials Optics Short Article Transparent

Transparent Concrete Welcome Welcome to Bootkidz, a small design company based in London. This article has information on the interesting material called "Transparent Concrete". Translucent Concrete The most common way to create translucent concrete is by mixing pieces of broken optical fibre, as used by telecommunications companies, into a concrete mixer - its not that simple though - since the optic fibres need to be arranged in a special way to create the pathways for the light to be transmitted from one side of the concrete block to the other side. Two companies make this translucent concrete: Italcementi - based...

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London Design Week 2012

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London Design Week 2012

Author: Karen Henry, Chief Designer, Bootkidz Ltd London, UK Email: karen@bootkidz.co.uk Google+ Facebook Twitter September in London is Design Week (LDW) where local and international furniture designers and retailers exhibit their products in venues all around London The largest exhibition that is held every year is at Earls Court. This exhibition used to have established furniture companies exhibiting alongside new designers. In 2012 this show focused more on established local and international furniture companies and architectural suppliers. LDW Coffee SHop For me, LDW is about the excitement of new designs, imagination, and seeing how a material has been used to create an...

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Discount Signs

Karen Henry Discount Signs Visual Merchandising

Welcome Welcome to Bootkidz. We've made these discount signs for you to download. Each discount sign can be downloaded and printed on larger quality paper. Discount Signs

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