PureAlchemy Design

05/28/2026

When SeaChange Printing was acquired by new ownership, the brand transformed overnight — bold, energetic, a true stand-out. The building was functional but not yet telling the new story.
We rebuilt the space around the new identity. Teal and magenta running through the surfaces. A wall mural made from an enlarged actual print proof. Brand color reaching all the way into the breakroom and the locker bays.
What we didn't entirely plan for: the people changed too. The demeanor shifted. The joy in the work shifted. Even how employees chose to dress when they came in.
That's what a real branded environment does — not signage, not slogans. Employees experiencing the brand firsthand and becoming more themselves inside it.
🔗 Read the full story: Branded Environments — When a Workspace Embodies Who You Are

A truly branded environment embodies your culture, mission, and vision — so people feel who you are the moment they walk in. Here's how we do it.

05/24/2026

Translate brand into space and watch focus follow. When you’re ready, we’re here for a discovery call.

05/23/2026

The University of Minnesota Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering had a 750-square-foot glass-walled room that nobody used.
The brief was to make it a space students and faculty would walk into deliberately — for advising, for welcome, for the kind of collaborative review where ideas actually get refined. The architectural shell was sound. The systems were sound. What the room needed was identity.
We made the department's own work the answer. Their research, their project sites, their built architecture became the visual story — cityscapes and case studies mounted against a deep charcoal backdrop, connecting coursework to real-world practice. The room now does what the original shell could not: it tells students what they are part of every time they walk in.
ASID Minnesota recognized the work with First Place in Institutional at the 2026 Design Excellence Awards. The partnership with the department is what shaped every decision.

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05/16/2026

Some retail design choices are noticed only when they are missing.
At Judith McGrann and Friends, the fitting lounge was designed for varied ages, sizes, and abilities. Lighting was tuned for true garment color and flattering skin tones in the exact moment a customer is deciding. The kind of details Judith and her team cared about deeply — and trusted us to bring into the space.
ASID Minnesota named the work First Place in Retail at the 2026 Design Excellence Awards. NARI Minnesota recognized it with Silver in Commercial Interior at the CotY Awards.

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05/10/2026

Good spaces look nice. Great ones improve how teams work. When you’re ready, we’re here for a discovery call.

05/09/2026

What does a workspace look like when it is designed around how women actually work?
ModernWell asked us to find out. Their mission — empowering women in business and life — became the brief. Every zone, every material, every sightline came out of months of conversation with their team. The result is Wayzata's newest co-working space, built around focus, connection, creativity, and community.
ASID Minnesota recognized the work with First Place in Office Space at the 2026 Design Excellence Awards. We are proud of the recognition. We are more proud of what the team at ModernWell built.

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04/30/2026

There’s a reason you feel different walking into a well-designed space.
The materials. The light. The way sound behaves. The presence — or absence — of the living world. None of it is arbitrary, and none of it is neutral. It all works on us, whether we’re paying attention or not.
PureAlchemy Design is introducing Focus + Renewal Spaces — purpose-built environments that give people something most built spaces don’t: a designed moment of genuine recovery. Not a quiet room. Not a breakroom. A space with the flexibility to meet a person exactly where they are — and give them back what they need to move forward.
The new blog covers the concept, the design logic, and where it applies. Worth a read if your people are spending long hours in demanding environments.
📚 Read it here: Focus + Renewal Spaces: Purposeful Environments for Recovery, Clarity, and Renewal

Focus + Renewal Spaces are purpose-built environments for recovery, clarity, and renewal. PureAlchemy Design introduces this new concept.

04/26/2026

Clarity, comfort, and brand cues—working together in your space. When you’re ready, we’re here for a discovery call.

04/23/2026

Thinking about renovating your office but can’t afford to shut down?
You don’t have to. A phased approach — working through the space in deliberate sections while operations keep running — is how we’ve helped businesses from dental practices to recycling facilities get a complete transformation without losing a single day of productivity.
New blog: how phased office renovations work, why preparation is the most important part of the process, and what the team on the other side of the renovation almost always says.
📖 Read it here: Office Renovation Without Disruption

Transform your office space with effective change management strategies. Learn how to navigate transitions smoothly for a productive and inspiring workplace.

04/16/2026

Have you ever walked into a retail space and felt immediately drawn in — without quite knowing why?
More often than not, it's the lighting. The way it layers. The warmth it creates. The way it draws your eye exactly where the retailer wants it to go.
Our newest blog covers what makes retail lighting work — from the four layers every store environment needs, to why fitting room lighting directly affects sales, to the disco ball that turned a Mall of America pop-up into a Purple Rain experience every hour on the hour.
📖 Read it here: Retail Lighting Design — What the Right Light Does for Your Brand

Lighting is the difference between a product that gets noticed and one that gets missed entirely. Between a space that pulls people in and one they pass without a second glance. Between a customer who lingers and one who leaves.