Niko Niko is a Japanese toy boutique that opened it’s doors to the city of Hobart in early December. The store’s owners, Marco and Nadia, have spent many months collecting an eclectic range of original and genuine plushes, action-figures and stationary that would appease the child in all of us.
During the construction of the store, Floatingworld was approached by Australian architects Room11 to help Marco and Nadia create a brand for their new store. (For those of you that do not know I also run my own Graphic Design Studio, Floatingworld with two other lovelies, my dearest friend Alecia and my partner Tom.) As a result, we help them come up with the name “Niko Niko” which translates as “to be happy.” We also came up with a cost effective means of producing business cards, tags and bags by making various sized stamps which they could apply to readymade bags and cards. We also helped produce the stores signage which was cut from thick plywood. The result helped to tie the front of the store to the interior designed by Room11.
See pictures above of us constructing/ designing the signage for the front of their shop. This project was so much fun and we hope we can secure more like it in the future.
