In my own words
— Megan<p>I'm Megan, a store designer with 11 years of experience across fixture design, signage, exhibits, space planning and visual merchandising for the following brands:</p><p><br></p><p>Nike • Estée Lauder • Kate Spade • Rebecca Minkoff • Macadamia Hair • Kendall & Kylie • Bang & Olufson • Incase • Roark • The North Face • Under Armour • T-Mobile • Sprint • Westfield Malls • O'Neill • REI</p><p><br></p><p>My combined experience as an in-house designer on retail marketing teams at Nike and Vince Brands (formerly Incipio), and at design-build retail agencies designing fixtures, trade show booths, stores, and commercial interiors for brands and retailers has offered me a holistic perspective and advantageous knowledge of both the vendor and client side to teams I've worked with.</p><p><br></p><p>After hours you can find me sourcing vintage furniture and housewares, or exploring textile design and materiality through projects for studio MORMOR, my studio practice and resell business.</p>
Trajectory
Apr 2025 — Now
Retail Designer II ( Contracted with WTBR) · Google
Contributing to the design of customer experiences for P1 Google Stores as a Retail Designer with the Google Retail Store (GSR) team.
Sep 2016 — Now
Principle Designer · Megan Barrett Designs
Services:
- Retail Design, including: 3D models/renders, Space-planning, visual merchandising, signage and graphic design development and art file build-out
- Virtual apartment tours and renders (Sketchup, Enscape, Photoshop)
- Drafted floorplans and elevations for commercial spaces and residential remodels (AutoCAD)
- Site visits and surveys
- Visual Merchandising
- Home Staging
- Store design, space planning, and seasonal visual merchandising campaign development
- Creative direction, project management, sourcing, and installation of furniture and decor for home stages and MLS listing marketing images.
Mar 2022 — Nov 2022
Store Designer (Contractor) · Nike
• Collaborated with cross-functional partners (visual merchandise planning, store operations, architects, real estate, and contractors) to develop and design retail fixtures for North American Nike Rise store locations.
• Led space planning for new stores in Palm Beach, Florida, and Torrance, California, prioritizing customer and athlete journey through operation and fixture placement, using doors and hallways to direct traffic.
• Responsible for presenting space planning studies and site conditions for review and sign-off from key Nike Retail Design stakeholders, advocating for Nike's brand standards and the Rise store design concept.
Dec 2019 — Sep 2021
Lead Designer · Displayit Inc.
· Responsible for delivering designs and project revisions with short turn-arounds
· 3D modeling and rendering for client presentations
· Leading projects, and overseeing a small team
· Designing custom fixtures, retail interiors, and exhibits
· Translating Millwork drawings for Engineering, and in-house manufacturing
· Working alongside Project Managers and Engineers to create lighting plans
· Sourcing and specifying materials and finishes for production
· Creating presentations and material boards for clients
Sep 2016 — Aug 2018
Retail Designer & 3D Render Artist · Incipio Technologies, Inc.
- In-house Retail Fixture and Experience Designer
- 3D models, floor plans, elevations, fabrication drawings and renderings for quotation
- Established POP design and presentation standards for Sales Reps and Vendors
- Designing window displays, POP’s, tradeshow booths, and merchandising programs
- Assembling buildout guides for consistency with wholesale account launches
- Designed Retail Marketing collateral presentations for B2B and B2C
- Responsible for executing internationally launched brand experiences through retail designs, exhibit concepts, shop-in-shops, and window displays.
- Produced and edited 3D renders of seasonal colorways of product for Ecommerce and printed packaging
- Created and revised tech packs in Illustrator for various designs in multiple product categories
- Communicating updates to factories with each reviewed sample for quality control and design accuracy
- Incipio Core brands: Incipio, Incase, Griffin, Braven, Tavik
- Licensed Brands: Rebecca Minkoff, Kate Spade, Under Armour, B&O Play and more
Mar 2013 — Sep 2016
Retail Display Designer · Simply Displays
- Designed a Nationally distributed Liquor POP that won 1st place in its category at the 2015 West Coast POPAI
- Developing shop-able, sell-through driven POP programs across product categories
- Project Management and vendor communications for $75k+ graphic production runs
- Following brand guidelines to design production graphics for orders of 500+ units
- Internal branding, marketing Social Media management and graphic design
- Rendering custom display proposals in SolidWorks, KeyShot & Photoshop
- Interfacing with clients to determine project needs & obtaining brand assets
- Sourcing display components & materials on a project basis
- Environmental Signage assembly, art management, and vendor communications
Clients: American Eagle Outfitters| Baggallini | Estée Lauder | Pelican | Melin Headwear | China Glaze | Gelish | Macadamia Hair | Shea Moisture | Eagle Creek
Activity
Education history
California State University of Long Beach
Bachelor of Arts | 2008 - 2013
Otis College of Art & Design
Extention
