PureAlchemy Design

Most office color projects start and end with the brand standards document. We think that's where the real work begins.
Our latest blog walks through what it actually looks like to translate a company's brand into the room they work in every day — using Professional Data Analysts as the worked example. PDA carries the widest brand palette we've ever designed for, and the office had to honor that whole spectrum without overwhelming the people inside it.
🔗 📖 How a Minneapolis office turned a wide brand palette into a workspace that hums

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Design is a business tool—use it. When you’re ready, we’re here for a discovery call.

Most articles about office trends miss the actual conversation happening with leadership teams right now.
Flexibility isn't pushback anymore — it's mainstream. Wellbeing isn't a perk — it's competitive labor strategy. And too far in either direction (too flexible OR too rigid) and a company loses productivity, culture, and the quality of the employees they set out to attract.
Our newest blog walks through what we've actually changed in how we approach office projects, with INDPRO and Scott + Hespen Law as evidence that the right answer looks very different for very different teams.
🔗 📖 Read here: How Today's Most Effective Offices Are Designed

How Today’s Most Effective Offices Are Designed - PureAlchemy Design There's no single best office. The right one matches how your team actually works. Here's how Minneapolis's most effective office designs get made.

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

Branded Environments: When a Workspace Embodies Who You Are - PureAlchemy Design 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.

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

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

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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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™: Purposeful Environments for Recovery, Clarity, and Renewal - PureAlchemy Design Focus + Renewal Spaces are purpose-built environments for recovery, clarity, and renewal. PureAlchemy Design introduces this new concept.