First Impressions ─ Shopfront Design Ideas

This book shows you how to design great shopfronts, from planning to design principles according to type of store, location, the product, and architectural elements. This delightful book features latest shopfronts from over 120 different shops in the city, revealing changing trends and distinct character of different brands. Each shopfront not only shows the unique face, but contains a host of interesting detail about the designs, materials and construction methods. Loaded with numerous photos and drawings, it has 6 major parts, including introduction, parts of a shopfront, the planning for shopfront design, the renovation of traditional shopfront, the new shopfront principles, design approach of architectural elements, security, and works. A must-read for architects, shopfront designers, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the first impressions of shops, this illustrated book is equally appealing to shop owners.

Nigel Gomme,a designer with over 25 years horticultural experience and a reputation for ambitious and unconventional landscape designs.He founded CITYSCAPERS in 2006, the concept of CITYSCAPERS is to create gardens that positively affect mood.