In our society information is more valued than classical assets as labor or capital. The amounts we produce and sell are loosing their all-important status. The thing that really matters, as Jonas Ridderstrale and Kjell Nordström state in their book “Funky Business” (Expansión - Prentice Hall), is what is going on in the minds of the people who participate in society, those who produce as well as those who consume. Finally, after a long time of regarding things the same way, we start to see the light and acknowledge that a person is a world in itself. People are getting aware of their individuality, they start to realize how unique they really are and they are defending their right of being considered as an individual. Nowadays people want to be treated as irreplaceable, and they resist being included in some global unifying model...[read +]

Last July, The Brandery, a Barcelona fashion fair, announced a shop-window contest in which 160 shops participated. This contest wasn’t limited to the town of Barcelona but involved other cities like Sabadell, Granollers, Lleida, Madrid, Bilbao, as well as the isle of Mallorca, the isle of Ibiza and the mini-state of Andorra. The theme was “Windows on Summer Holidays”, inviting display designers to inspire themselves on the summer holidays. Six finalists were chosen through a public inquiry at social networks like Facebook and Flickr that had published photos of the participating shop windows.  Woman magazine, co-organizer of the event, elected the final winner. Another co-organizer, the Tourist Office...[read +]

I got to know Andreas by chance. His shop, Concret, is located in the same neighborhood in Barcelona as Vitrina. Andreas´ work drew my attention and I invited him to participate in our last “in a window“ display-design event, “Murcia in a Window”. Since living in our country, Andreas has worked for various concerns like Vinçon, Zara or Favorita.  His professional activities are focused at concepts as: display design, visual merchandising, styling, interior design, and display management. He works for an international clientele. Andreas has been directing display design teams. He regularly visits major trade fairs as Maison Object in Paris, Ambiente in Frankfurt or Milan’s Furniture fair. Apart from that he makes trips on a regular basis to the major European and American cities to obtain first-hand information on innovations in...[read +]

Talking about the worth of information, I believe that the publications we present you at continuation are among the very best in our field. They will offer you valuable information on colleagues from all over the world and their work. There are more publications of course but this is a fair part of what’s being published and I think it pays taking notice of them. In next issues we will continue offering information on websites and blogs that specialize in display design, visual merchandising and coolhunting... [read +]