This table was produced by IDW as a promotional furniture piece for various venues. A range of finishes and materials set off the brand and impart a high-end look and feel, and ease of assembly was addressed for easy shipping and setup.
My name is Jerry Foster. I’m an industrial designer who specializes in merchandising design and product development. Have a look around. If you need creative help on a project, I’d be delighted to hear from you.
This table was produced by IDW as a promotional furniture piece for various venues. A range of finishes and materials set off the brand and impart a high-end look and feel, and ease of assembly was addressed for easy shipping and setup.
We designed this wire display with a slim profile to fit into narrow spaces in convenience stores.
This animation shows a variety of concepts we created for a floor display which would feature a variety of both cold and ambient energy drinks. A production version was eventually built based upon one of these designs.
For today's blog post I pulled up a tea accessories display I created for a large client back in 2006. This one was fun because, as is often the case with POP design, I had the chance to play furniture designer.
We created this concept cooler some years ago for a customer who wanted a refrigeration solution which would really stand out from the boring black box coolers that dominate the industry. The challenge was to create a new look without the liberty of being able to modify the basic structure of a standard cooler. A plasma ball in the middle of the door injected playfulness and interactivity while playing up the product's selling poi
It's always fun to interpret the graphic identity of a given brand as a sculptural form. In this case, the client wanted their branding reflected in the form of a cooler handle. These are a few of the ideas we provided.
Designed for use in salons, this mobile workstation contained swing out bins and an array of optional add-on components to make it the ideal tool chest for hairstylists.
How do you design a compact cooler to serve up one cold energy shot at at time to deter theft? That was our challenge with this project. The solution was to use thermoelectric cooling in a molded housing and a cleverly designed rotating dispenser that only allows the consumer access to one shot at a time. The shots are restocked by the clerk via a hinged locking lid. Serpentine channels inside feed the shots down into one of the two dispensing barrels, which also make a clicking noise to alert the clerk that the product is being dispensed.
Our rigid, lightweight and unique iPad sleeve is made of sustainable aluminum and bamboo. The integrated slot shows off the Apple logo and also provides a very simple method to support the device for use in landscape or portrait mode.
Created to showcase the new look and feel of Coke's aluminum bottle design, this countertop display showcased the product by floating the bottles off the base and lighting them from underneath. The silver finish was intended to provide a neutral, high-end backdrop and help the bottle graphics stand out. Green glass was a visual callback to the traditional Coke bottle.
I'm a fan of Art Deco, so I particularly enjoyed designing this display for Tribeca. The finished production piece, produced by IDW, was so faithful to the rendering that this image might as well be a photograph.
Who doesn't love a little retro now and then? This is just one of several retro-inspired coolers we designed some years ago (we can't share anything recent, unfortunately). This is the kind of project that makes being a designer really fun sometimes.
We designed this cart back in 2008 to be used on the field in the Superbowl and help promote Gatorade. It had a myriad of compartments and add-ons for cold and ambient beverages and incorporated stylized handles, large wheels to handle uneven terrain, and rails to help secure insulated beverage dispensers.
Clear acrylic and brushed steel lends a high-end look to this counter display we created for Borba Cosmetics. The challenge on all cosmetics displays is to showcase a slew of different shapes, sizes, and colors in a way that is clean visually as well as easy for the consumer to navigate.
Compact, lightweight, and portable iPad stand made of durable, sustainable bamboo.
Check out our trade show booth design for IDW. It’s designed to be modular so it can be reconfigured to fit into almost any booth space large or small. Each of the platforms you see functions as a pedestal for their key products.