GlobalShop 2000

A team of VM+SD editors and their hand-picked panel of industry designers combed GlobalShop to select the booths in The Store Fixturing Show and The Visual Merchandising Show that best combined cutting-edge design with interesting new products.

Working with the magazine staff — associate publisher Carole Winters, editor Steve Kaufman, managing editor Pat Knapp and associate editors Jenny Schnetzer and Randi Holm-Bertelsen — were judges Christian Davies, of the Boston office of Fitch Inc. (Columbus, Ohio); Michael Bodziner, Gensler (San Francisco); David Kepron, Kepron Architect (Englewood, N.J.); and Steve Wierzbowski, WDW Design (Chicago).

Criteria were style, creativity and integration of booth design with the products. Following are descriptions of the winning booths: one Grand Prize and three Awards of Merit in each of the two shows.

STORE FIXTURING SHOW

Best of Show

B&N INDUSTRIES

San Carlos, Calif.

Awards of Merit

IDX

Clayton, Mo. SEVEN CONTINENTS

Toronto ENTOLO

Minneapolis

THE VISUAL MERCHANDISING SHOW

Best of Show

HAMPTON LANE

Glendale, Calif.

Awards of Merit

BAY AREA DISPLAY

San Francisco

M. LAVINE DESIGN WORKSHOP INC.

Cold Spring, Minn.

CREATIVE ARTS UNLTD.

Pinellas Park, Fla.

STRONG CONTENDERS

A few other booth designs made strong impressions on the

panel members:

STORE FIXTURING SHOW

J.P. Metal America, Montreal

555 Design Fabrication, Chicago

Fleetwood Industries, Reading, Pa.

Sajo, Montreal

Suss Woodcraft, LaSalle, Que.

Tafisa, Lac-Magantic, Que.

Vira Manufacturing, Perth Amboy, N.J.

VISUAL MERCHANDISING SHOW

Color Kinetics, Boston

Elevations, S. San Francisco, Calif.

Kodak, Rochester, N.Y.

Presentations Plus, Long Lake, Minn.

Silvestri California, Los Angeles