If only e-mail could be this stylish. The new store prototype design for Oakland, Calif.-based Papyrus, complete with higher light levels, richer wood tones and a more expressive color palette, takes a 140-store...
Next month, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Ian McKellen will shuffle down the red carpet as nominees into the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the 71st annual Academy Awards presentation. For those...
The sprawling greenery of Palm Desert, Calif., grows in contrast to its bordering desert mountains. As one of the fastest growing cities in the state, Palm Desert is nearly an oasis unto itself, burgeoning into a...
Imaged by FRCH, Haggar Clothing Co.'s new outlet store incorporates elements straight from the sewing room floor. In many circles, older is wiser. For Dallas-based Haggar Clothing Co., seven decades of manufacturing...
Where's the party? It's at The Block at Orange, an urban-savvy entertainment and retail development in Orange, Calif., produced and directed by The Mills Corp. Producing a first-time blockbuster motion picture -- a...
With heated competition between department store anchors and steady pressure frominventive specialty retailers, it's often left to design to distinguish one department store from the next. Dogged by sameness...
Within a popular and competitive retail sector, Amarillo, Texas-based Hastings Entertainment has amassed a 120-unit superstore roster that spans 16 states. And over the next 16 months, the multimedia superstore...
As William Wordsworth wrote in 1802, "My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky." In their quest for brand loyalty, repeat business and increased revenue, retailers aspire to elicit the same reaction as...
After emerging in January from Chapter 11, Camelot Music Inc. is showing no signs of slipping down the charts. In fact, the North Canton, Ohio-based music retailer aims to squelch its post-bankruptcy reverberations by...
Lennox Town Center's "mug" has clearly run full with the addition of Cup O Joe, a high-design, neighborhood-style coffee shop that opened last May. Husband-and-wife owners Todd and Michelle Appelbaum paired with...
