retail design
With over 25 years experience and with the results of our labours on display in most of the major shopping centres and high
streets in the UK, Colin Williams Design appreciate the dynamics of retail design.
Our approach begins with understanding a client’s selling process, understanding the culture, and
understanding the brand. Every retail site is unique, and we have a track record in creating bespoke
interior design solutions to maximise retail potential.
The team from Colin Williams Design provide a full range of interior design consultancy services from concept origination to site supervision,
including advice on procurement, costing and cost engineering, the design of specialist fixtures,
graphic design, and retail identity development. We support our clients throughout landlord’s
negotiations, and we are experts in administering the approvals process.
We are dedicated to managing projects to achieve completion on time and to budget.
museums and heritage
Together with our working partners we offer an integrated range of consultancy skills including concept design,
feasibility studies, interpretation strategies, exhibition design, graphic design, advice on project costings, procurement
methods, preparation of accurate technical and detail drawings and specifications, tender administration,
rigorous project management, and pro-active control of costs.
Our complementary experience in retail and catering design enables us to provide a comprehensive design
resource covering every aspect of the museum interiors and visitor centre environments.
workplace
We believe passionately that innovative, appropriate and sensitive design of the workplace will
help businesses achieve their cultural and commercial aspirations.
We are fascinated by the process of discovering the personality of a company, and then expressing
this through the rational and imaginative design of workspaces, meeting and conference facilities, and
reception areas. Our role is to help companies live their culture and communicate this both to their
staff and their public.
The commercial benefits of matching business processes to a company culture include improved internal
communications, greater appreciation of brand value, an enhanced public identity, improved attraction and
retention of staff, promoting new ways of working, appropriate built-in flexibility to reduce the cost of
churn and provide a sustainable environment.
leisure
Our experience in the leisure sector embraces all types of interior design including bars, cafes,
restaurants, and visitor attractions. Our objective is always to create a unique sense of place based
on maximising the site's potential, understanding the market, and applying realistic budgets.
Our interior design expertise is augmented with a comprehensive package of services including truthfully
illustrated concept origination, graphic design and the development of brand identity. Our circle of
working partners gives our clients access to high calibre structural, environmental and cost advice,
precisely when it is needed. Imaginative ideas are developed into carefully detailed and comprehensive
packages of construction information, providing a sound basis for accurate tendering, smooth progress
on site and reliable control of cost and quality.