Piros Designs Blog

Top Tips: Maximising your expo stand

Super User — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 08:03:00 GMT

As you get ready to start planning your expo stands for 2019, here are some tips to make sure you maximise ROI and achieve optimum results for your business. Being clear on your objectives not only helps you to track objectives but will help your designer deliver sterling work. Plan for the show and set clear goals What is the aim of you partaking in the exhibition and what do you want to get out of it? Do you want to create brand awareness? Are there giveaways for new potential customers? Are you building your database or are you selling to visitors? Being very clear on your goals will help the designer understand how best to create a space that caters to your business needs. Define your target market Be sure that you are clear on who your client is and understand how to "talk" to them with the various elements on your stand. What are their wants and needs and what is likely to capture their attention? Take psychographics into account to ...

The Bold and the Bauhaus – celebrating 100 years of designs’ most influential movement

Super User — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 07:51:00 GMT

From the Marie Kondo decluttering craze to Ikea’s staple focus on functionality – almost every single modernist design concept can link its roots to the Bauhaus movement. For a hundred years, the Bauhaus has lived and thrived as an icon in the design community. Bauhaus is a 20th century modern arts, crafts and design school in Germany that boomed into a major cultural movement. The founder of Bauhaus was Walter Gropius, a Prussian architect who hoped his experimental school would “bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art — sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts — as inseparable components of a new architecture.” Gropius’ vision was definitely a success, setting in motion a modern current that still influences all spheres of design. A century later, much of what we adulate in design – “mod” furniture, open floor plans, functional design, sharp angles, cubic shap ...

Spring has sprung!

SuperUser Account — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 08:31:00 GMT

Some news on the latest designs we've done, whats trendy at Decorex 2015 as well as a chance to win!

Blossoming Decorex

Piroska Warren — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:49:00 GMT

Blossoming Decorex August is always Decorex month in Joburg and after not having attended Decorex for the past few years I finally made the time to go visit this years show, main reason being due to the newly launched 100% design. 100% Design was launched this year and is a high-end curated showcase of the most inspirational designs and designers. It's the ideal platform for showcasing South African and international brands in the furnitures, fabrics, products, lighting and design industries. Products: This years expo was packed with a variety of products, and we made some cool new finds! Some of the items and stands that stood out include funky textured tiles on the AGL stand (see images), Lansdowne boards from Cape Town that supply a wonderful range of textured panels that can be custom designed and coloured for various applications. Fabcote showcased an amazing range of designer wallpapers (so GORGEOUS!!!) as well as an exciting new LED wallpaper - will be inte ...

May - Feathers & Finery

Piroska Warren — Fri, 30 May 2014 06:33:00 GMT

Exciting new décor store that recently opened in Waterfall Corner, check out the thinking behind this design...