Retail Design Agency and Visual Merchandising

Millington Associates is a retail design agency specialising in visual merchandising and display. Simon Millington graduated form Newcastle Art school in sculpture in the mid eighties. He produced some amazing decorative metal worked schemes for Harrods and Armani, worked at Liberty for a year then set up shop. Metal work, model making and window props were big in the eighties and his artistic vision and craftsmanship produced some memorable and innovative work for clients such as Dickens & Jones, Selfridges, Harrods, Liberty , Miss Selfridge, Wallis and House of Fraser.

The company is renowned for their creative flair and unique bespoke work. However, the team Millington has built up including top production and new business staff has enabled the company to grown in to a well respected and serious presence in the retail world. They are now a top UK retail design agency whose clients include Marks & Spencer, Nike, Burberry, Pringle of Scotland, Oasis, Wallis, Coast and Viyella.

Retailers now want to achieve deep in-store visual merchandising and display carrying identity from windows to decorative interior features to point of sale and promotional material. Niketown London offer their customers a deep retail interactive touchy-feely experience of the brand. Millington Associates have produced giant interactive walls, a huge chandelier made from Nike Air soles and created interactive exhibition space in store to add to customer experience.

Shop Windows in London - Selfridges Christmas Windows

Shop windows in London are renowned the world over for having leading creative edge. Despite the rise of e-commerce shoppers from all over the UK will come to London to enjoy the rich visual experience of the shopping streets and enticing windows and state of the art interiors designs. Shopping should be a complete visual and environmental treat, appealing to all our senses. This is especially true at Christmas time when London has spectacular Christmas windows. Millington Associates have worked on some of the most memorable and award winning schemes such as Selfridges Christmas windows in 2006 which featured giant topiary figures, sculpted in Millington’s studio, voted best Christmas windows at the RVM Awards. Previous Christmas shop windows in London have included Burberry, Nike, Viyella, Dickens & Jones, Marks & Spencer and they are set to design Harrods’ Christmas windows in 2008. – watch this site for news of more 2008 confirmations.