Silent Selling: Best Practices and
Effective Strategies in Visual Merchandising
Capturing the direction and evolution of today's retail industry, Silent
Selling: Best Practices and Effective Strategies in Visual Merchandising, 4th Edition is a
multi-disciplinary blend of practical activities and creative problem solving that takes
readers beyond the basics of virtual merchandising.
Readers gain an understanding of expert's recent discoveries and learn valuable
techniques while being encouraged to think outside the box using Bell's
Look-Compare-Innovate model.
With these informational tools, students can learn to create and deliver professional
presentations that will facilitate their move from the classroom to the workplace.
Judith Bell is the Group Manager of Competitor Insight in Marketing
& Guest Insight Center (MAGIC) for Target. In 2006, she was named a "Retail
Design Luminary" in the Display and Design Ideas (DDI) magazine Portfolio Awards, and
in 1999 she was the recipient of the Visual Industry's prestigious Markopoulos Award,
which recognizes individuals for extraordinary achievements and outstanding contributions
to the visual merchandising and store design industry. Bell has numbered among the top
five industry mentors by DDI since 2001, in addition to being named one of the design
industry's most influential people, annually, since 1998. In 2006 she initiated Target's
sponsorship of both the Planning and Visual Education (PAVE) International Student
Competition in Minneapolis and the Women in Design Awards in New York City.
Table of Contents
• Part One:PREPARATION FOR VISUAL CREATIVITY
• Creative Thinking: Getting "Out of the Box"
• What is Visual Merchandising?
• Core Design Strategies
• Part Two: PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES FOR THE SELLING FLOOR
• Layout and Fixtures for Fashion Apparel
• Fashion Apparel Wall Set Ups
• Fashion Apparel and Accessory Coordination
• Home Fashion Presentation
• Part Three: COMMUNICATING RETAIL ATMOSTPHERICS
• Signing
• Lighting
• Part Four: VISUAL PRACTICES FOR NONTRADITIONAL VENUES
• Grocery and Food Service Stores
• Nontraditional Retailing
• Part Five: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MERCHANDISE DISPLAY
• The Magic of the Display Window
• Mannequins and Mannequin Alternatives
• Building a Visual Merchandising Department
• CAREER STRATEGIES
• Visual Merchandising Careers
400 pages, Paperback