Region – Shopping Centre Experience

client
Region
Title
Region - National rebrand
architect
artist
location
Australia Wide
expertise
Wayfinding, Signage and Rebranding
design firm
curator
Elevating the regional shopping experience.

8th Wonder was engaged by Region Group to reimagine the retail developer’s national signage and wayfinding guidelines, creating a unified design language that could flex across diverse architectural contexts. Following the successful design rollout, 8th Wonder was appointed to deliver ten centres across Australia, translating the new identity into crafted, built outcomes.

The design centres on material authenticity and tactile contrast: fabricated and painted aluminium paired with illuminated acrylic. This intentional simplicity created a scalable, cost-efficient system capable of consistent application across Region Group’s entire portfolio, while still allowing each centre to maintain its own architectural rhythm. Every detail from proportion to lighting to material temperature was refined to elevate the everyday retail journey.

The result is a cohesive signage suite that not only strengthens brand recognition but also enhances the shopper experience, transforming routine wayfinding into a more intuitive, elegant, and connected encounter across Region Group’s national portfolio.

Services

  • Design Development
  • Prototype Development
  • Schematic Drawings
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Manufacture
  • Installation
  • Project Management