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Design Educators find this book popular design for high school and university student architectural design projects.

A powerful reference and idea book for architects, industrial designers, consultants, design educators and prospective booksellers! A must for every professional library. The only book in print on this subject.
 

 

Independent Bookstore Planning and Design
Architects, Industrial Designers, Consultants, Design Educators and Prospective Booksellers: A this book will provide you with a well written discussion of prospective book sellers and advanced  retailers, book principals and techniques to creating today's rich bookselling environments and this book will alert you to problems encountered in locating, conceptualizing, planning, and bringing to market all types of independent, general, specialty, national park, military, medical, religious, comic, college bookstores and more.

Part one is richly illustrated with interior and exterior photographs of bookselling environments. Examples of color, lighting, graphics, and trendy coffee houses are featured in artist’s renderings, plans, checklists, charts, schedules, graphics and schemes many in brilliant color. 

Part two, an anthology of bookselling at 23 key bookstores from 400 to 60,000 square feet in size is profusely illustrated with plans, drawings, artist renderings, and quality color photographs, many published here for the first time. 
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A four color book available in soft and hardbound editions for your professional library!
 

 

 

Display and Visual Merchandising
Display and Visual Merchandising begins with the marketing interior display and moves to the design of show windows. It explores strategies for design of emotional appeal, integrating balance, focus, and harmony into book displays. 

The book illustrates new twists in retail signage graphic lighting, color, show-window backings, props, and accessories. Prospective booksellers and veterans find the color illustrations presenting examples of shelf facings, window and table top book displays, signs, directories, banners, printed graphics and store fixtures particularly helpful when planning and positioning, marketing, promotion, and sales plans.

Chapters dealing with solutions to specialty sideline merchandising in cafes and coffee houses, and improvisation open a world of new visual merchandising possibilities for any budget.

The final chapter describes where to get the help you may need-if and when you need it- to become an outrageous success story! 
300 full visual color illustrations.  Authors Ken White Consultant with Frank White, ISP....
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A companion book to Independent Bookstore Planning and Design

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Electronic Full - Color Edition of Convenience Store and Small Market Design Forthcoming. Perfect addition to your professional library!

 
Convenience Store and Small Market Design
Marketing strategies have changed public perceptions of traditional convenience c stores, and made other kinds of development possible. A wave of new customers, grown up shopping in older c stores, now press for greater appeal in store design, variety in mix of products, merchandise and service.

Customer demands for hybrid small markets vary by community and location, midtown Manhattan to suburban San Diego. Everything from automotive supplies to smoothies, hot take out food buffets, fresh bagels, bread and pastry items, coffee, things convenient to the local market. The visual merchandising, “Look and Feel” of emerging hybrid c stores and small markets designed to capture and keep market share are often larger and at times become new interior designs, industrial designs, graphics, lighting, and architectural design issues to deal with. This one of a kind little book can help you launch an exciting hybrid c stores that is right with your neighborhood and that will perform as well as it looks. Wouldn’t you rather get it right the first time? Authors Ken White, ISP Consultant.... [more]

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This book is the only authoritative book in print on this subject that belongs in your professional library. Loaded with authoritative advice essential for prospective college c store administrators, managers, industrial designers, who plan and design them!

 

Campus Convenience Store Planning Manual
This is the first and most important guide to planning college campus c stores. Profit planning strategies, visual merchandising techniques, inventory control, physical planning, signage graphics, color, lighting, and equipment to make campus c stores the single best place to shop on campus, are explained. Student services, sidelines (non-food items), hours of operation, and management required to successful and profitably operate the unique kiosk, mini, maxi, and super c stores with coffee services are described.

Prototype plans and B/W illustrations of  c stores at Boston University, UCONN and Duke University are featured. Authors Ken White consultant 

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