Creative Direction: Coercion Design Photoshop Production: Chris Young Before and after photos of modifications made to the original model suite. This was a relatively simple fix up – brightening and warming up the image, removing glares on the false window, as well as cleaning up some of the wires in the background. Photo credit: Evoke International Design […]

Creative Direction: Coercion Design Photoshop Production: Chris Young Restoration of a heritage photo of Paris Shoes, circa 1919, for The Salient Group’s Paris Block development. This photo was used for various collateral, emphasizing it’s historical past. Photo is from the City of Vancouver Archives. See also The Salient Group corporate website, Paris Block website, and Terminus brochure. […]

Art Direction: Coercion Design Design: Chris Young Illustration created from an original City of Vancouver archival photo (circa early 1900’s). Photo was used in print and web collateral as well as an oversized photo in the presentation centre. See also The Salient Group corporate website, Paris Block website, and Paris Block brochure. See all projects tagged […]

Art Direction and Design: Chris Young Following through with ‘the end is near’ concept, we carried that message through to terminus’ completion (terminus meaning ‘the end’) and ‘the end is near’ became ‘the end is here’. For many people, the terminus building will be remembered as the propped up building that burned down in Gastown almost […]

Art Direction and Design: Chris Young This illustration, an elevation view of The Salient Group’s three developments on Water Street (from left to right, The Alhambra Building, Garage, and terminus) was created for the cover of a presentation folder, but was never produced. See also The Salient Group Terminus Storefront Signage, The Salient Group Corporate website, and […]

Art Direction: Coercion Design Design: Chris Young Logo for the Paris Annex development, the second half of a two-phase project. Paris Annex is the modern new-construction building adjacent to the heritage component of The Salient Group’s Paris Block. The Paris Annex logo incorporates part the original Paris Block logo, with the addition of the Annex. See also The […]

The Salient Group corporate website v2.0 With the downturn in the markets – particularly real estate, which I’ve spent much of the last several years focused on, what better time for a developer to reflect on their website? Companies always seem to make the mistake of cutting back on their advertising, and web presence in times […]