6 Ways to Maximise Christmas Sales This Festive Season

Here are 6 ways to maximise Christmas sales this festive season and what to do now to prepare for the highest sales period. Get ready and learn how to prepare for peak sales! 6 ways to maximise Christmas sales Are you ready to maximise Christmas sales now? Book a Retail Strategy Session Need help with […]

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Favourite sites to be inspired by - Arnold & Bird

Four sites to be inspired by for creative retail businesses

Four sites to be inspired by   Inspiration – one of my favourite words and let’s face it, who doesn’t love to feel inspired on a daily basis. Visually creative content has a habit of making you internally say, ‘oh wow!’ or even experiencing a little jump of joy inside.   These four sites to […]

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Sarah Delaney artist - Naramata in rose

Artist Sarah Delaney – Curiosity of the month

Every time I see Sarah Delaney post on Instagram I get such a happy feeling. One, because I love her vivid and energetic paintings – the movement in them is just mesmerising. And two, because I instantly recognise her style when it regularly pops up on my feed. Her tonal use of colour and mark […]

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Mark making painted design - Arnold & Bird trends

Mark making – product development design ideas

Mark making design   Obviously you’d be a fool to think it was easy to put ‘simple’ marks together… Hmm, well I have to admit I was a bit foolish but I’ll own up to it and hang my head in shame. BUT, what I can also confess is making my mark making mood board […]

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Mark making mood board by Arnold & Bird

Mark making trend – mood board

Mark making mood board   When mark making is used on patterns, products and art, I find it never fails to inspire. This theme can seem so simple on the surface but when you dive into it there is wealth of little details you can keep discovering. Marks can create texture, depth, pattern and layers […]

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Five free trend resources Arnold & Bird

Five free trend resources to use in your product development

Five free trend resources   Today I’m sharing my top five free trend resources from some of the biggest authorities in the business. It’s amazing what trend resources you and get for nothing, so I’m hoping you’ll leave this post with inspiring new information you can use in your business – as who doesn’t love […]

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The Unseen - Air

The Unseen – Curiosity of the month

The Unseen   The Unseen first popped into my world when I attended a trend briefing seminar at LS:N Global. They approach design by merging it with science to create something that not only looks beautiful but also reflects what is going on in the world around us.   Their piece ‘Air’ is an almost […]

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Feather drawings - Arnold & Bird

Decorative feathers trend – product development design ideas

Decorative feather designs   In the last post we dived into the decorative feather trend for inspiration and started exploring how this theme can be applied in different ways.   Today I’m sharing a little bit of my interpretation for decorative feathers – from initial sketches to final designs: Want to see more decorative feather […]

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Decorative feather trend mood board

Decorative feather trend – mood board

Decorative feather trend   My first mood board had to be about feathers as I LOVE them! There is a feather in my logo and this motif is really important to my brand identity. The word Arnold comes from my Grampy who was a pigeon racer, and Bird comes from my Gran’s maiden name. I […]

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