Ulta is a full-service beauty retailer with more than 350 stores located throughout the United States. Averaging 10,000 square feet, operations combine retailing elements of a department store, drug store and salon within a single space.
 
Chipman Design has worked with Ulta’s in-house design team on its national expansion the last ten years, completing more than 200 new stores. Providing innovative retail planning and design, the firm has refined and streamlines the processes to assure greater efficiency within the national program.
 
The paragon of the Ulta program is its 2008 six-story flagship store located along Chicago’s iconic State Street retail corridor. This dramatic space affords two-story vistas, custom interactive displays and expanded salon features, drawing cutomers up thorugh four levels of the structure.

By leveraging the power of 3ds Max, Chipman Design Architecture was able to provide Ulta with photorealistic lighting studies, compiling lumen, lux and assorted ies lighting values with an easy to understand visual representation.