3 Dots Design Company Spotlight
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3 Dots Design is a strategic retail design and visual merchandising company that aligns brands with consumer needs to create exciting and enticing retail environments.
With over 50 years combined experience in the specialty run, cycling, outdoor and active apparel industries, the 3 Dots Design team consults on strategic retail design and merchandising with retailers and manufacturers in those arenas. They have also worked with clients in the yoga, coffee, college bookstores, cannabis, womens fashion channels among others.
Before starting 3 Dots Design, Holly Wiese had been well acquainted with run specialty retail by working at the iconic Playmakers running store in Michigan, her native state. After starting 3 Dots Design in 2009, she consulted in the bicycle industry where she oversaw all aspects of retail design and visual merchandising for Giant Bicycle, the world’s largest bike manufacturer.
In 2005, Holly met Andy Davis while working with Giant Bicycle and he has been the lead designer for the company since its inception. With 2 other full time employees; Ryan Wiese and Adam Batliner, and many contractors “on call” around the country, the 3 Dots Design team can easily expand or contract its workforce as needed for various projects and retail rollouts.
They find most of their projects to be located out of state, throughout the country however, they always love working local when they can. A few of their local store design projects include the iconic Neptune Mountaineering remodel, Boulder Cyclesport South, Smartwool Cherry Creek and Ramble on the West end of Pearl Street in downtown Boulder. They’ve also designed 2 of the Denver area Runners Roost stores and worked on the Go Far Smartwool partnership store on East Pearl, also in Boulder.
In addition to designing retail environments and product fixtures, they also spend a good amount of time travelling the country speaking at stores and trade show events. They recently returned from training retailers on how to improve their visual merchandising and how to sell more apparel at a bicycle retailer event in Minneapolis called Frostbike.
3 Dots Design also hosts an annual or semi-annual training workshop for all retailers called Rocky Mountain Retail Camp (www.rockymountainretailcamp.com). This event always proves to be very exciting for visiting retailers and it’s loaded with lots of training sessions and hands on merchandising practice at local stores.
If you have a moment to swing by Neptune Mountaineering, be sure to grab a coffee in their new café and take in their new digs. 3 Dots Design was proud to work with the new shop owners to bring their vision to life as well as to design their new logo, graphics, signage, fixtures and store layout.
