Dustin Edward Arnold

Dustin is a designer, photographer, and creative director whose practice incorporates media design, fashion, scenography, products and film.

Previously
Executive Design Director @AKQA

2021-2022
Head of Creative @Rose Inc

2016-2020
Group Creative Director @DITA.

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Film
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Spatial Design
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Dustin Edward Arnold









Dita Epiluxury
Merchandising & Fixture System

Spatial Design
Packaging



Context:

Dita-Epiluxury is Dita Group’s bespoke modular eyewear brand with a price point from $1800-$4500.

Presentation, differentiation, aura and storytelling was of paramount importance at this high price-point. The brand needed a radically different form of presentation that laddered up to its product philosophy of ‘A Category of One.’



Concept:

‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.’ - Albert Einstein

Designed to provoke a conversation with the store staff the design system poses more questions than answers. The black Epiluxury monoliths are branded with the abstract runic symbols of The Five Tenets of Epiluxury. While a lit shadowbox suspends the eyewear systems components behind glass. 



Execution:


In order to accomodate multiple retail contexts an integrated packaging and fixture system was designed around a simple magnetic attachment.

This allowed for multiple configurations of the displays. The columns were primarily designed for windows and store-in-store presentations, whereas the shadow box and flagship components can be configured for desktop retail environments.