The Design Solution

RSS Subscribe

Close Move

Founded in 1984, The Design Solution is a company of architects and designers based in London. We create exceptional environments in the retail, commercial and leisure sectors. For the past 15 years we have carried out a wide range of projects both in the UK and overseas.

This has coincided with the recognition within the industry that commercial facilities will play an increasingly important role in both passenger satisfaction and the opportunity to increase revenue over the coming years. We have worked extensively on all of London's major airports, in Indianapolis, JFK, Boston Logan in USA as well as in China and Australia.

The Design Solution
90 Westbourne Grove
London
W2 5RT

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7556 5300
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7556 5333

Website: www.thedesignsolution.co.uk

Articles by The Design Solution

Airport Branding

  • Airport Branding »

    Robbie Gill
    From an historical point of view all that the consumer has had as a sign of a product, was its logo. If you were a large global manufacturer of products then you used advertising to push that logo whether it was television or magazines. This is really how the majority of products have become embedded in the consumers mind long after any sales message was forgotten. It is after all a very simple device for anybody to remember.

Airport Design

Airport Retail

  • America Comes Alive »

    Robbie Gill
    While it is all to easy to dwell on the tragic events of 9/11, a phrase itself that somehow manages to clinicalise the trauma of that day, one cannot underestimate the global knock-on effect of that time.

  • Maintaining a Retail Balance »

    Robbie Gill
    Airports from Heathrow to Hong Kong and onward to Sydney have come a long way in their retail offer to their aircraft passenger. Indeed good airports target not only the traveller, but meeters and greeters, weepers and wailers and the airport employees; such has been their advance.

Airport Security Solutions

  • Planning For Commerce Within The New Security Regimes »

    Robbie Gill
    While the dust has far from settled in the aftermath of 9/11, it is now time to re-evaluate and plan for business. A business that despite the horrors of 9/11 is set to grow over the coming decade.

Food and Drink

  • Food for Thought »

    Robbie Gill
    Food has become fashionable! Take a look at prime time television and there are chef's programmes in abundance all telling you how to do it, what flavours go with what ingredients. We even have wine connoisseurs appearing like Game Show hosts! So what then have airports been doing while this culinary re-awaking has been going on?

  • Retailing and Food & Beverage in Hub Airports »

    Robbie Gill
    In Great Britain and the rest of Europe small provincial airports are starting to take on a greater importance than they once did.

Airport Business Lounges

Airport Design

Airport Luxury Retailing

Airport Store Design

Duty Free Retailing

RSS