| NASFM
presented 51 awards at its 33rd retail design
awards program Monday, March 22. Winning Store
of the Year was Toronto’s Holt Renfrew department
store, designed by burdifilek and built by Concord,
Ontario-based NASFM member Unique Store Fixtures.
Futuretronics’ Orlando store received Fixture
of the Year for its Display Pod Grouping. Awards
included 13 Grand Prizes, 18 Outstanding Merits,
and 18 Store Fixture Awards.
Retailers, designers, and store fixture manufacturers
were recognized in the hour-long awards ceremony
in the Great Hall of the Fashion Show—Las
Vegas. This year’s winners, selected from
215 entries for projects completed in 2003, blurred
the lines between architecture and store fixturing
and integrated branding into store fixtures in
unique ways.
Nearly a third of the projects, 32%, went to Canadian
stores and fixtures. The next closest geographic
region, the Midwestern United States, had half
as many with 16%, followed closely by the West
Coast with 14%. The Northeast and the Southeast
tied for winning projects, taking home 10% each,
and the Southwest claimed 4% of the awards. Twelve
percent of the awards were presented for projects
outside of the United States and Canada—namely,
Tokyo, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
Judges for this year's competition were: Kevin
Brailsford, Vice President, Store Environments,
Blockbuster Store Planning; Ted Clemens, Vice
President, Store Planning, Abercrombie & Fitch;
Barbara Emerson, Vice President, Store Planning
& Design, Sephora; David Milne, Principal,
Creative Director, David Milne Design Associates;
Mark Randall, Director, Fixture Purchasing, Best
Buy Co.; Kathleen Socha, President/Design Director,
Phase One Design Services Inc.; RoxAnna Sway,
Editor, DDI; and Carole Winters, Associate Publisher,
VM+SD Magazine. Outgoing judges Ted Clemens, Mark
Randall, Terri Roberts, and Kathleen Socha were
presented with special awards recognizing their
contributions to the program.
Information on the winning projects, including
contributing companies, is available online
and in a special section of the April issue of
DDI, presenting sponsor of the NASFM Retail Design
Awards. NASFM’s Retail Design Awards recognize
outstanding contributions to the field and focus
attention on the significant role fixtures play
in retail environments. Mark your calendars for
next year’s early-entry deadline of Dec.
15, 2004.
NASFM is an international, not-for-profit
association representing the store fixture manufacturing
industry since 1956. The association's membership
includes 350 regular member companies operating
over 750 plants and employing more than 75,000
people worldwide; 250 industry suppliers are associate
members. NASFM members manufacture an estimated
85 percent of all store fixtures produced in North
America.
Note: High-resolution digital
images and electronic lists of project contributors
and descriptions are available for publication
upon request. Please contact Karen
Doodeman, 954-893-7300, ext. 31.
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