Gold Interior Space and Exhibition Design · 2025
Miniso Land Retail
by Xiang Li
- A' Design Award 2025 Gold Winner in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 132,280
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About Miniso Land Retail
Within the three story space of Miniso Land, there are six major areas and over seventy types of co-branded products from various IP worlds. Designer achieve a fusion of category diversity and space utilization efficiency by setting up diversified situational zones, avoiding the dullness that traditional repetitive shopping experiences may bring. From the blind box area that seems like in pink bubbles, the comprehensive area with a montage visual effect, the pet area and fragrance area with various senses of nature, to the plush area that feels like entering a fairy tale world.
Li Xiang's Miniso Land Retail represents a significant achievement in contemporary experiential retail design, positioning itself within the broader movement toward immersive commercial environments that prioritize sensory engagement and emotional resonance over mere transactional efficiency. The work demonstrates sophisticated understanding of how spatial design can orchestrate visitor experience through careful calibration of chromatic relationships, lighting atmospherics, and architectural gesture. The designer appears to draw upon multiple visual traditions: the democratic festivity of carnival and fairground architecture, the bold graphic language of Pop Art's celebration of commercial culture, and the postmodern playfulness characteristic of Memphis Design's rejection of minimalist austerity. The technical execution reveals considerable accomplishment in managing visual complexity without sacrificing coherence; the tetradic color harmony maintains unity through consistent saturation levels and carefully balanced warm-cool distributions, while the geometric interplay of circular signage against linear ceiling striping creates dynamic tension resolved through the mediating checkerboard floor pattern. The central illuminated structure functions as both wayfinding beacon and symbolic threshold, its arrow motifs suggesting movement, discovery, and promise while its concentric rings evoke the cyclical pleasures of play and return. The mirror-like floor reflection doubles the visual field, creating spatial expansion that transcends physical boundaries and invites contemplation of the constructed nature of retail fantasy. Thematically, the work engages with questions of joy, abundance, and the transformation of commercial space into theatrical experience, suggesting that shopping environments might aspire to the condition of celebration rather than obligation. The iconographic vocabulary references amusement park architecture and vintage signage traditions, positioning consumption within frameworks of leisure and delight. Viewers might consider how such environments shape emotional experience and what cultural values are embedded in the equation of commerce with carnival pleasure.
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- Unique Properties
- Within the three-story space of MINISO LAND, there are six major areas and over seventy types of co-branded products from various IP worlds. I achieve a fusion of category diversity and space utilization efficiency by setting up diversified situational zones, avoiding the dullness that traditional repetitive shopping experiences may bring. From the blind box area that seems like in pink bubbles, the comprehensive area with a montage visual effect, the pet area and fragrance area with various senses of nature, to the plush area that feels like entering a fairy tale world, people feel as if they are traversing through a changing theme park.
- Tags
- interior retail
- Design Challenge
- Designer applied the interlocking logic of assembly toys to the scene design, creating shelves modeled after amusement facilities. For functional facilities represented by shelves, designer reconstructed them with such thematic elements, breaking people's established impressions. Traditional shelves that carry goods become vines in the fragrance area and cacti in the pet area, thereby establishing a new value perception of the products for people.
- Project Duration
- Shanghai, China
- Inspiration
- The park is a miniature world that integrates universal human values such as happiness, satisfaction, and hope, creating a place with high emotional resonance and identity. People pick up joy here and return with a light mood. The designer abstracts the atmosphere and symbolic meaning of the amusement park, reconstructing a comprehensive platform in the retail space that integrates emotional communication, cultural experience, and brand value.
- Image Credits
- Photograph丨SFAP
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