Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Category: Retail

Saarinen, Target, and the Art of Good Design

The Design Blog at the Walker Art Center here in Minneapolis has a great story up featuring the design of our Target stores – the interview features Target’s Rich Varda, Senior Vice President of Store Design. Here’s a look: Rich Varda: RV: I think most people expect, because of their everyday experience, that retail architecture [...]

All Good Things….

It was ten years ago next week that I was first promoted into a position where I was a leader of others. Sure, I had been in positions of responsibility before. As a young man, my peers selected me as Patrol Leader in my Boy Scout Troop. Later, I was selected as the Senior Patrol [...]

Sears Hires Luis Padilla

TV Station KWQC reports this change at Target’s former Marshall Field’s unit: Sears, Roebuck and Company says it’s plucked Luis Padilla from rival Target Corporation to become its first president of merchandising. Padilla last served as executive vice-president for merchandising in Target’s recently sold Marshall Field’s unit. Sears says Padilla’s experience in department-store and discount [...]