Harry Potter Window

With Yesterday (Monday 26th June ) being the 20th anniversary of the first Harry Potter book being released, It meant that a  full on window was defiantly needed.

Spent a little time painting card with yellow, orange and brown paint, then I used 3 wooden keys as templates to draw round, and then cut out the keys. Rather then cut out the centre of the key, which would make the card less sturdy, I coloured it in with a sharpie. (no sorry Andrea Coloured them in.)

Creating the wings out of A4 white paper then drawing on some pattens to make them look a little more like dragonfly wings, these were then stapled to the stem of the key.

Each Flying Key is hung with cotton which is stuck with clear tape to the window frame.

Found out to day that the trays that we use on the gondolas fit perfectly on the grid unit in the window, witch is perfect as we can create levels and more creative displays. 

The past displays that we have had in this window the adult mannequin seemed to always ended up on the right with the child or a display on the left.

The movement of people past the shop mainly goes form the right to the left meaning that the first thing they see is the adult. if that dose not catch their attention  being it is something that they don't like or is bland, or badly displayed, the rest of the window display is lost to them (and potential customers).

placing the child to the right allows passers by to see the whole display leading them to the door (and hopefully to potential customers and sales).

See more of Escapade Windows I have created HERE

Card being prepped for making keys. Looks like a piece of my abstract art.

Before And After: Wall Merchandising.

 The above photo is of the accessory and hat wall on the mezzanine, before a re-merch'.

and the below photo is of after. 

Moving the self half way up the wall serves two purposes. The first is that the merchandise is now at eye hight for costumers to see rather then being hidden at the bottom, where they have been hidden. 

Placing the large witches hats at the top makes better use of the high wall. Rather then merchandising the smaller items at the top where costumers are unable to reach and see properly.

The second purpose is that the slat wall is broken at this point meaning that we can not put arms at this level without damaging the above slat and stock fulling off the arms, making the best of broken fixtures.

On high walls like this rather then merchandising small items at the top and larger at the bottom, try merchandising large items at the to smaller in the middle and large/medium at the bottom.

Halloween Window

Gone a little simple this year with this Halloween window at Escapade Fancy Dress, slightly child like with pumpkins and ghouls.

I am liking how the cauldron tuned out.

Star Wars Celebrations.

With the London Star Wars celebration coming up, and Escapade Fancy dress having a booth at the event we thought it was appropriate to make the event with a window.

Party Store Window

With the new party section in the store, its time to show of some of the products in the window.

Party Store At Escapade

Brand new party section at Escapade Fancy Dress. Set up by the guys at Amscan Uk. 

(16th May 2016)

 

The Ballon Bar.

Had the final panels installed which means it's time to to get creative and build walls of balloons

Venetian Carnival.

 My Venetian carnival inspired window using hire costumes and the lovely range of imported masks from venice. 

The window is partly decided into three by the colours used in each, The couple on the left in the Gold and red the couple on the right in blue and gold, (the mans outfit dose also have silver with in it) and the cabinet with the masks with its dominant colours being Black, Purple Gold and Red.

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Halloween Window 2014

My final design art work on the halloween window.

Painted on the 7th and 8th October 2014

Halloween is the Christmas season of any fancy dress company. considering that I spent only a couple of days working on the design and a budget of £30 (which I only spent £24.50 on paint)

Brief:

*Halloween window for 2014.

*The shop has two open windows situated on a main road with a busy bus stop less then 20 yards and traffic lights of cross roads with in 10 yards.

*Customers need to be able to see in to and out of the store easily (as well as those queuing outside during the busy period) as well as passers by during the night due to the busy location.

You can't really go wrong with a simple design for this.with traditional halloween classics. 

Ghosts. Tomb stones. Bats. Cats. Pumpkins. Witches. Lightning. Haunted house. Full moon.

The uneven sky line, created with a mixture of black, blue and white acrylic paint applied with a sponge, is to give the illusion of  distances with a suggestion of distant hills or mountains.

My Tim Burton inspired window, with Jack Skellington, complete with spider web framing. I have made some small differences to Jack, mine has 5 fingers and he has a  different collar to the original Jack.

The social network addresses that are on the window all year round now have blood dripping from them in keeping with the season.

Window at the end of Sunday 7th October

The sketchbook 

© sarah patel 

please do not use or reproduce any of the designs without my consent.
To see more of my designs click here
To see more of my work check out the gallarys.