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Retail Design Colour Crush – Tasty Mint
While the world of interior design may still be hung up on the Pantone colour of the year for 2018, Ultraviolet, we have already found a tasty alternative, 2018's evolution of the 2017 colour of the year, Greenery. The 2018 edition of the colour green though is less...
Effortless Retail Interior Design Trends for 2018
We have our eye on a few simple, strong, colour-driven retail interiors design trends to give your store an on-point makeover in 2018. Retail interior design trend #1: Make a statement with monochrome A black and white retail interior design colour palette always...
Pantone Colour of the Year 2018 – Ultra Violet – in Retail Design
It's that time of the year again, when Pantone announces its new colour of the year. The new Pantone colour of the year for 2018 is ultra violet, the purplest of purples. Purple is a really strong colour, and quite a challenging colour to use in retail design. It can...
The best pop-up shops we’ve seen yet
Pop-up shops are a great way to increase your existing retail brand exposure, and to test a new retail concept in a low-risk manor. Here are a few of our favourite pop-up shops, that do exactly what a good pop-up shop should do: Get people talking about them! ...
Retail design trend alert – bling-bling metallics, just in time for the festive season
One of the hottest retail interior design trends we have our eye on at the moment is all things shiny and metallic. We predict retail designers will be using more mixed metallics - copper, bronze and brass tones and textures in particular - combined with deep greys...
Blackline Retail Interiors’ First Design Studio Birthday
We recently celebrated one year in our new interior design studio offices in The Gantry, Fourways. We can hardly believe that it's been a year since Blackline Retail Interiors moved into our office space. It's been such fun designing our OWN space for a change. We...