RETAIL DESIGN TRENDS: Real simple
Apr 1, 2002, Janet Groeber
The frills are gone. The focus in today's store environments -- from apparel shops to grocery stores -- is on clarity....
Back to basics
Mar 1, 2002, Steve Lewis
Yes, the show must go on. But in 2002, themed retail projects must also focus on the bottom line....
RETAIL DESIGN TRENDS: Beauty in the basement
Feb 1, 2002, Erika Hutton, Associate Editor
RETAIL DESIGN TRENDS: Nike finds its feminine side
Dec 1, 2001, Pat Matson Knapp
Two years ago, Nike Inc. realized it needed to create a new retail concept to attract customers and solidify its position in the market. The museum-like...
A Design express
Nov 1, 2001
According to Darrell K. Pattison, director of design for Cleveland-based KA, Inc. Architecture, there were numerous skeptics when KA answered yes to the...
RETAIL DESIGN TRENDS: Resurrecting an icon
Nov 1, 2001, W. S. Moore, III
Some stores are simply places to buy things. Others have distinctive identities. But few become cultural touchstones with distinguishing names that resonate...
RETAIL DESIGN TRENDS: Hue knew?
Sep 1, 2001, Barbara Jacobs
On the most basic physical level we all share similar responses to color. Wavelengths of reflected light (color) stimulate our nervous and endocrine systems,...
RETAIL DESIGN TRENDS: Retail down under
Aug 1, 2001, By Pat Matson Knapp
With a 160-year history, Australian retailer David Jones is one of the oldest department stores in the world. So when it set out to create its new prototype...
Lighting the way
Jul 1, 2001, By Carol Badaracco Padgett, Contributing Writer
While interior lighting can literally make or break the atmosphere of a venue, exterior lighting directly contributes to how safe shoppers feel about...
DESIGNER ROUNDTABLE: Design between the lines
Jul 1, 2001
The roundtable was conducted in Chicago in conjunction with the GlobalShop conference earlier this year. Six questions in all were asked by the editors....
