Displays & Signs

Client: Wine Alliance, Healdsburg, Calif.
P-O-P Company: Beeline Group Inc., Newark, Calif.
Division: Permanent, Cordials and Wines
Size of Run: 500
Objective: To design a display for chardonnay wine that complements the client's elegant, revamped wine label. The unit was designed to play off the grape leaf motif with organic shapes and scrolling vines.

Cosmetic Company: Prescriptives, New York
Product: Exact Matchstick Foundation
Objective: The client wanted the product to be easily accessible to the customer while retaining the product's airtight seal. The unit needed to display the shade selection from light to dark while occupying a minimal amount of counter space.
Distribution: Department stores
Introduction: September 1997
P-O-P Company: Design Display Group Inc., Carlstadt, N.J.
Construction/Materials: Fabricated acrylic, vacuum-formed metallic styrene

Cosmetic Company: Estee Lauder Inc., New York
Product: Lauder Pleasures For Men
Objective: Estee Lauder wanted to create an on-counter unit to present the full line of its new fragrance in a self-serve concept. By creating a streamline tower effect with three enclosed shelves housing up to 16 pieces of product, the retail selling space is maximized. The unit emphasizes the "open-sell" concept by being open on two sides.
Distribution: Department and specialty stores
Introduction: June 1997

Cosmetic Company: Kasmare Ltd., London
Products: Nicky Clarke Hairomatherapy haircare products
Objective: To leverage Nicky Clarke's celebrity status as a designer stylist with worldwide editorial exposure to promote a collection of haircare products uniquely formulated with aromatherapy properties.
Distribution: Drugstores and food/drug combo chains
Introduction: February 1998
P-O-P Companies: Graphic Converting Inc. (header), Niles, Ill.; Mid-America Printing (lithography), Chicago; Joliet Pattern (tray), Joliet, Ill.

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