Record store exploration and vinyl spots

A flyer that caught my attention in the LCA corridor, checked to see if it was more competition but it is a new music magazine which has just started out with interviews, articles, and very artistic content and a best of 2016 spotify playlist. Probably curated by someone at LCA, this reinforces how much vinyl is coming back and that it has a relevance among students aswell as those who have been collecting for decades showing the mass target audience my new interface caters for.

Jumbo Records

Multiple stacks everywhere you look, record stores have so much to offer 

Visuals of branding, gig flyers, covers everywhere you look. It is an exciting atmosphere.

Relics Records

Very similar layouts, and as I have seen going to stores before and in the Record exhibition I attended in September, these places are all very similar and have a universal style.

Just opened record and coffee store, again reiterating the comeback of vinyl.

Stickers and flyers everywhere, prompts me to move forward with making the new interface more visual but not as cluttered. Record stores are enjoyed this way, but to solve my problem, my interface needs to be clear and straight to the point. Making the experience more visually striking and focused on the album artwork is crucial, but having stickers in the background may be too immature. Will have to try this.

Magazines on a coffee table left for customers to read, and Discogs has a main feature on the first showing its prevalence within the vinyl buying community. With the marketplace being made one large area and made easier to navigate and more visual, it would have a huge following as Discogs definetley has proved it does through my research

Vinyl spots

First was a stall at an Etsy market at the Leeds City Museum who created items such as notebooks and earrings out of vinyls; was a very quirky idea which worked brilliantly and showed appeal with the dozens of customers hovering and buying at this counter. The second is at On The Wall, a print shop which had these vinyl cards. Little spots like these on my travels around Leeds reinforced that the vinyl community is huge and currently only seems to be growing, making my problem seem even more relevant and that what I am creating has a mass purpose not only in Leeds but internationally due to statistics given on Discogs of different currencies.