Megan Barrett
Store Designer · Megan Barrett Designs
Long Beach, CA
In My Own Words
<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>
Work Experience
Principle Designer
Megan Barrett Designs2016 – Present
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.
Retail Designer II ( Contracted with WTBR)
Google2025 – Present
Contributing to the design of customer experiences for P1 Google Stores as a Retail Designer with the Google Retail Store (GSR) team.
Store Designer (Contractor)
Nike2022 – 2022
• 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.
Lead Designer
Displayit Inc.2019 – 2021
· 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
Retail Designer & 3D Render Artist
Incipio Technologies, Inc.2016 – 2018
- 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
Retail Display Designer
Simply Displays2013 – 2016
- 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
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