Steve Madden Flagship Renovation

Opening: January 2025 / Location: 3 Times Square, New York, NY / Client: Steve Madden

Ringo Studio collaborated with Steve Madden to reimagine the brand’s international flagship store in Times Square. Reflecting the brand's energy and New York roots, the studio designed a bold, clubhouse-like space. This immersive, sculptural environment blends warmth with urban sophistication, creating a place where visitors can gather, explore, and connect with the brand's evolving identity. This project is an iconic example of Ringo Studio's expertise in translating brand DNA into experiential spaces that attract and inspire people.

Glossier Austin

Year: 2019 / Location: South Congress Ave, Austin / Role: Senior Creative Design Lead / Client: Glossier

Glossier Austin is a spot located on South Congress in Texas where you can enjoy a special beauty experience. The exterior design, with its three giant lipstick replicas on the roof, stands out, and it features vintage-style colorful signage. Inside, pastel colors harmonize with natural materials like rock and concrete to create a unique atmosphere. There is also a terrace, where visitors can relax and enjoy the products in a comfortable setting.

Glossier Atlanta

Year: 2020 / Location: Ponce City Market, Atlanta / Role: Senior Creative Design Lead / Client: Glossier

Glossier Atlanta is a store that reflects the energy and culture of Atlanta. Atlanta is known for its nightlife energy, delicious food, and warm hospitality, and is also famous as the city where prominent music artists built their careers. The design of this store aims to embody abstract concepts of music and sound through geometric shapes, light, and shadow. Incorporating geometric panels designed for soundproofing and sills and internal windows modeled after recording studio vocal booths, it creates a unique space characteristic of Atlanta, the city of music.

Our Place

Year: 2023 / Location: Melrose, Los Angeles / Role: Interior Designer Client: Our Place / Awards: Interior Design Best of 2023, Retail Finalist

The store for the D2C kitchenware brand Our Place is finished as an approachable space that evokes the room of an aesthetically conscious resident. Warm terracotta and creamy sand tones highlight the colorful products, and large wave patterns spread across the limewash walls. Jewel-like tiles and fabric curtains add a unique character to the space, creating an elegant and playful atmosphere when combined with the heavy dining table. In the back, a small room surrounded by lavender tiles and mirrors appears, opening into an astonishing space where you can experience an infinitely stretching dining table.

Studs Miami

Year: 2022 / Location: Wynwood Design District, Miami / Role: Creative Director, Lead Designer / Client: Studs Jewelry

Located in the vibrant Wynwood district of Miami, the new studio for the piercing shop Studs is inspired by the famous Art Deco designs of Miami Beach. Neon accents, large silver palm trees, custom-designed Art Deco benches, pink mirrors, and bright neon and LED lighting reflect the city's historical architectural landscape and create a unique atmosphere.

Venus et Fleur Flagship

Opening: Feburary 2024 / Location: Houston, Texas / Role: Lead Interior Designer Client: Venus et Fleur

Venus et Fleur is a brand specializing in preserved flowers (Eternal Roses) that maintain their beauty for long periods, popular as gifts and interior decor. Ringo Studio was commissioned to rebuild the retail identity for their 7th store in Houston, focusing on craftsmanship and enduring elegance. Arched niches highlight the flowers, creating a space reminiscent of a romantic rose garden.

Sama, Oral Wellness

Opening: September 2024 / Location: New York, NY / Role: Interior Architect and Designer / Client: Sama

The dental clinic Sama features a quiet, healing space design that fuses wellness and design. Natural materials such as warm oak, stone mosaics, and sage-colored limewash walls harmonize, and soft curves and gentle lighting create a calm atmosphere. The sculptural custom reception desk is designed with an image of teeth, embodying Sama's philosophy of excellent oral care. Parisian-style elegance and a serene healing atmosphere are in harmony, providing visitors with a special experience.

easyplant

Opening: September 2024 / Location: New York, NY / Client: easyplant

easyplant is a plant shop designed with a fresh perspective for modern shoppers in New York. Unlike traditional jungle-style plant shops, it features a minimalist, showroom-style design that provides a sophisticated and calm shopping experience. The new Soho store uses warm white oak and marble, and natural light pours in through the all-glass facade, creating a sense of serenity and clarity. Furthermore, the brand's technology-enabled online experience is seamlessly integrated into the store, creating a space where customers can freely discover and enjoy the products.

Google Fitbit Set

Year: 2023 / Location: San Francisco / Role: Creative Direction and Design / Client: Google

Ringo Studio is partnering with wearable technology innovator Google Fitbit to develop the new Fitbit Premium platform. This set design provides Fitbit customers—now part of Google—with a sophisticated aesthetic and dynamic experience, redefining the digital workout series. It features a simple yet complex structure that expresses Google's iconic product design in three-dimensional space. It can be assembled quickly and reused many times. Warm wooden flooring and a soft light gradient highlight the trainers while allowing the entire space to feel connected to nature.

Balacize

Year: 2022 / Location: Los Angeles / Role: Creative Director and Set Designer / Client: Bala

For the set design of Balacize, a new video content platform for the fitness brand Bala, we worked closely with videographers, lighting designers, and Bala's management to extend the brand's tactile elements into the digital realm. Multiple stages and changing backgrounds support routines using 10 different fitness accessories, and the environment evolves over the course of 100 videos. Balacize is available online and via a dedicated app, integrating the shopping and workout experience.