The Window Shopper

Job Alerts: Graphic designer

Victoria — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:33:32 +0000

About Chameleon Visual

Chameleon is a small creative consultancy based in South West London; they design, produce and install visual concepts with a primary focus on retail window displays, parties, events and exhibitions.

http://www.chameleonvisual.co.uk

Main Duties

Chameleon is looking for a passionate entry-level designer to join our team. You will help with all of our artwork and plans for production. It is a very creative role and you will work on a variety of projects from layouts and invitations to window schemes and renderings. You will be expected to:

- Work on projects from concept to print
- Design and deliver excellent visual imagery
- Establish and maintain templates
- Visualise and draw up store window schemes to scale
- Support and assist designer as and when required

Skills and experience

Graphic design/relevant degree or significant related experience
A good eye for detail/composition
Proficient in Adobe Suite
Technical drawing
Microsoft Office
Typography knowledge
Ability to deliver projects on time and work on several projects simultaneously

Please send a cover letter, CV and pdf portfolio (5MB max) to Carrie Mok – carrie@chameleonvisual.com

Pinterest: Visual merchandising inspiration

Victoria — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:40:03 +0000

Pinterest is a great place to find VM inspiration… Here is my VM board full of display ideas. Do you of you use Pinterest? If you do leave your link in a comment as I would love to follow your boards!

Whistles window display: Graphic lines

Victoria — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:22:22 +0000

With SS12 about to hit stores, Whistls have collaborated with designer Matt Wingfield to radically transform the exterior of their store on St Christophers Place in London. I love the way the colours become part of the environment and the subtle movement of shapes from 2d to 3d

Laura Ashley, SS12 press day preview

Victoria — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:30 +0000

Reiss: A preview of the SS12 collection

Victoria — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:42:37 +0000

The lovely team at Reiss sent me over some links to preview their new collection. I am a huge fan of Reiss, I shop in their stores quite a lot and I love the cut and fabrics they use in their collections. If there was a high st brand which I had to allign myself with it would be them. If only I had enough money to buy everything from the new collection!! I love the introduction of digital prints along with the pretty pastel pieces. Now to make a wish list!

Selfridges beauty dept

Victoria — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 21:05:16 +0000

I love blogging and spend a lot of time reading other peoples blogs too! One of my favourite blogs is Fashion Dotty, written by the lovely Sarah from Manchester. Her blog is full of inspiration and styling posts and I always look forward to reading what she has been getting up too. she just tweeted me to share some pictures from her latest post as she knows how obsessed I am with any VM. You can check out her full post here But in particular I love these images from Selfridges which promote their new beauty dept.

Melbourne’s GPO display featuring Laura Laine

Victoria — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:19:07 +0000

I won’t have a chance to get down to London till next month so I have been feeding my VM appetite by looking at the website of Australian design company Gloss Creative. Probably one of the best VM companies ive come across to date (Not forgetting my other favourite, Chameleon based in London) Here is a display which Gloss Creative created for Melbourne’s GPO which features another favourite illustrator of mine, Laura Laine. If anyone is looking for a way to stand out from the crowd and produce a unique scheme this year then I would strongly reccomend teaming up with an illustrator to create a display. Maybe I will put together a post of some of my favourite illustrators to provide some inspiration! as you can see from the pictures below the results are amazing!

Accessorize window display: Bold and Bright

Victoria — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:03:21 +0000

I took these pictuers of the Accessorize flag ship store on Oxford St, London when I was shooting for LFW back in September. Don’t know why I have only just realised I forgot to post them but they really are a treat for the eyes with the lovely mix of colours. Accessorize have really created their own way of merchandising stock! The Flagship store is particularly nice because they include mannequins which I havn’t seen at any of their other stores before.

Inspiration: Mulberry and the great British beach holiday

Victoria — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:10:16 +0000

Here is a first look at the new Mulberry campaign for SS12. Can’t wait to see how this will be traslated into their windows and stores across the country. The image was taken by my alltime favourite photographer Tim Walker!

A closer look: Sportsgirl, Australia

Victoria — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:12:51 +0000

After yesterdays post, a kind reader, Cat, emailed me from Australia to say she had some pictures of the new scheme at sportsgirl so I thought I would share the pictures with you all! Its pretty interesting to me because the seasons are the complete opposite to the UK.