Drew Davies, principal of Oxide Design and renowned graphic designer, recently posted a post-mortem of our beloved Saddle Creek Target.
I had an interesting opportunity the other day, and I thought some of the blog reading public out there would appreciate it as much as I did. You see, they recently shut down a Target store not far from my office, in midtown Omaha. (They moved it into a new building about 2 miles down the road.) As a god-fearing designer, I obviously choose to shop at Target when I’m in need of just about anything. So I’d been inside this building dozens of times over the last few years. I was sad to see it go, although it had been getting a little rough around the edges, as far as Targets go. But I watched with morbid curiosity as they shuttered the doors, and started throwing various broken-up pieces of signage into the giant dumpsters out back. (No, none of it was salvagable: believe me, I looked.) Then one day, it happened. Commerical auction of all the store fixtures and left behinds. It gave me the opportunity to go inside the belly of the dead beast, autopsy in progress. What follows is my photographic record of the graphic, disturbing experience.