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Welcome to the second annual Women in Design celebration, a collaboration between Emerald Expositions' sister design magazines Contract, design-retail, Healthcare Design, Environments for Aging (EFA), and Hospitality Design. As each [...]

It has been quite a roller coaster of a year for retail, with the industry's top creatives rising to the challenge with impressive new store designs, concepts and ideas to [...]

A roundtable discussion with Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design students from FIT reveals a roadmap of where this next generation of designers is heading (... and there better be Wi-Fi) [...]

For the 18th consecutive year, the design: retail Winning Windows awards honored the top three Manhattan retail stores for their excellence in holiday window design. Judging was based on three [...]

It's been quite the year for the retail design industry--not to mention for the economy overall and America as a whole. During this time of rapid change and shifting consumer [...]

THE KING OF STREET THEATER. BERGDORF GOODMAN REIGNS SUPREME. RECLAIMING ITS SPOT AT THE TOP AS THE BEST HOLIDAY WINDOWS IN NEW YORK For the 17th consecutive year, the design:retail [...]

With sensationalized stories about store closures pitted against new store concept announcements and expansions mucking up the media's sea of headlines, it can sometimes be difficult to get an accurate [...]

There was so much to love this year at GlobalShop, but we've narrowed down a few of our favorites. From the lineup of completely new conference speakers to the networking [...]

As 2015 comes to a close (my how time flies!), we wanted to find out how the retail design industry as a whole has fared this year. So, we reached [...]

Winner: Anthropologie Eight--that's how many consecutive years Anthropologie has now taken home the top honor as the Visual Merchandising Program of the Year. The retailer's visual program continues to inspire, [...]

Products, networking, parties, oh my! GlobalShop 2015 hit Las Vegas March 24-26, bringing retail's best to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center to share ideas and show off their latest innovations. [...]

You might be having a great 2014, but are you wondering how your peers or the retail design industry as a whole have been doing this year? We too wanted [...]

Winner: Anthropologie Taking home the top honor as Visual Merchandising Program of the Year for the seventh year in a row (yes, seven!) is Anthropologie. Drawing from an inventive, seemingly [...]

The third-annual Student Window Challenge, a design competition presented with Saks Fifth Avenue, kicked off on June 5, tasking 12 visual merchandising students from the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) [...]

By JESSIE DOWD Photos courtesy of STARBUCKS COFFEE CO. A Starbucks is a Starbucks is a Starbucks, right? Wrong. Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Co. is continuing its global expansion with unique [...]

Gigantic set-up, gigantic budgets gigantic everything-all misconceptions about Bergdorf Goodman's windows. There often is no prior set-up whatsoever, their budgets are nothing special and their visual department primarily consists of [...]

For the fifth-annual State of the Retail Design Industry survey, DDI reached out to retail presidents, store planners, contract designers, visual merchandisers, CEOs and just about everyone else in between [...]

We love visual--and we know you do, too. So, for your viewing pleasure, we've rounded up the latest and greatest in window design on the following pages. Feast on this [...]

DDI's fourth-annual State of the Retail Design Industry survey tapped into the minds of retail design's presidents, store planners, contract designers, CEOs and just about everyone in between to get [...]

1st Place UNIQLO Fifth Avenue, New York Global apparel retailer UNIQLO, a subsidiary brand of Japan-based Fast Retailing Co., debuted its largest flagship in the world on New York's Fifth [...]

Polka-dotted tentacles, bird's-eye-view tableaus and even a T-Rex made of wooden hangers--these are just some of the whimsical creations visual departments have recently unleashed in their store windows, commanding attention [...]

The powerhouse visual team behind Anthropologie is known for its uncanny knack for transforming the ordinary into extraordinary in both its windows and in-store visual displays. Whether turning straws into [...]

I miss shopping. There, I said it. Yes, of course I miss more important things as well--my extended family, for starters. I miss watching my kids play with their cousins, [...]

IN FULL DISCLOSURE, this editor's letter was supposed to be about 'experience' and the increasingly important role it plays in brick-and-mortar retail. It's why our project features this issue-Canada Goose [...]

Despite the massive transformational era retail finds itself in today, design-that's right, the good ol' stop-them-in-their-tracks, perfectly executed, dazzling DESIGN--continues to be an immovable cornerstone of brick-and-mortar retail. Of course, [...]

Winner Anthropologie Anthropologie reigns supreme for the sixth year in a row as a perennial visual merchandising innovator, taking home the Best Visual Merchandising Program of the Year award. And [...]