by bgaddis | Jan 4, 2014 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Residential Design, Retail Roll Out, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning
What does it say about a retailer when the most visible storefront window in the shopping center where they reside is a vacancy for rent by the landlord. I have blocked out the signs for these retailers and put them up in a gallery so as to show how the...
by bgaddis | Dec 27, 2013 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Store Design
It is probably obvious to anyone following this website that I am after a formula for the perfect daytime storefront. The challenge is how to make the window display standout against all the visual noise in the environment. Whenever, in my travels, I see a...
by bgaddis | Aug 15, 2013 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Roll Out, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning
This is one of my projects in an almost finished condition. The storefront display is not yet in and there is still a blade sign and interior work to complete. In a few weeks you will find the completed project in the portfolio menu above. I have posted it...
by bgaddis | Nov 7, 2012 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning
Close inspection will reveal that these two storefront views have something in common. By amplifying the peripheral they draw attention to the particular. The textured glass used in the top panes and transom of the quilt shop have the effect of sending the viewer in...
by bgaddis | Aug 30, 2012 | Architecture, Design, Increase Retail Traffic, Retail Store Design, Retail Store Display, Retail Store Planning
I have first hand experience shopping in districts like the one above. My reaction – temporary paralysis in the face of immense opportunity – is always the same. American City Planner, William Whyte famously observed that what attracts people most...
