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Store Design: Every Retail Environment Should Have A Story To Tell

Store Design: Every Retail Environment Should Have A Story To Tell

    NIKE: Maple hardwood flooring with basketball markings on the floor. Wooden bleachers cladding the walls. Gorgeous displays of cutting-edge athletic shoes. The coolest mannequins in town. Great lighting. Unique and perfectly designed store fixtures.   As you enter their store they are challenging you to keep up with their brave new world, and that makes you want to…
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3d Modeling: The Power Of the Right Visualization

3d Modeling: The Power Of the Right Visualization

I am an architectural illustrator. I create drawings of buildings, retail stores and I illustrate conceptual ideas that are buried in somebody’s imagination and need to be brought to life. I usually base the illustrations on an architect’s plans, sometimes from photographs, and often the conceptual sketches are based on the clues I pick up watching a client’s arms wave in…
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Store Design: The Gotta-Haves and the Wanta-Haves

Store Design: The Gotta-Haves and the Wanta-Haves

Years ago I was working in a small retail store design firm headed up by an experienced designer who had been around the block a few times and had a lot of hard-earned knowledge and valuable sage advice. My job was to create hand-drawn illustrations of the stores he’d designed, and he’d use those sketches to help sell the projects.…
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Illustration Services: You Often Need A Drawing To Explain The Plans

Illustration Services: You Often Need A Drawing To Explain The Plans

Before I began designing retail stores I worked as a production designer in the Hollywood film industry. I spent twenty-odd years art directing television commercials, music videos, and feature films. One of the many film projects I worked on was the feature film, The People Under The Stairs, written and directed by the late Wes Craven. After reading the script…
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“Bryan’s skillful illustrations, strong sense of design, and his engaging ability to collaborate were extremely effective in bringing in our projects to fruition.”
-Michael Early, V.P. Construction and Facilities Event Network
“I would heartily recommend Bryan Jones and am confident you will find him to be a valuable asset for any assignment.”
-David Gerken, Retail Design Consultant
“Bryan's ability to capture and articulate a concept is exceptional.  His work on our behalf led to our presentation in Montevideo, Uruguay of the project at the World Bank.”
-Regina Binder, President and CEO of Binder Group
“Bryan’s visualizations were absolutely crucial to getting buy-in on a brand new store concept for our Client, American Greetings.”
-Adam Jones, COO & Managing Partner, RHDC Studio
“Working with Bryan has been a pleasure. He has taught me a great deal about design and presentation through illustrations.”
-Michael Early, V.P. Construction and Facilities Event Network
“I have worked with Bryan on many successful retail design projects and have always been delighted with the relationship and proud of the work produced.”
-David Gerken, Retail Design Consultant
“I’d recommend Bryan to anyone looking to bring their creative vision to life by way of illustrations, renderings and animations.”
-Adam Jones, COO & Managing Partner, RHDC Studio
“Bryan is one of the most creative retail consultants I have worked with. He is great at listening to and collaborating with his clients, always with a big smile on his face!  He is passionate, realistic, and responsive!”
-Jose Flores, Architectural Designer, J+E Design Studio
“We asked Bryan to become an integral part of the creative process at Event Network and his illustrations and designs dramatically raised the level of our stores and presentations.”
-Michael Early, V.P. Construction and Facilities Event Network
“Among Bryan’s many skills and attributes is the ability to create a vision for the future and communicate that vision in visual forms everyone can understand.”
-David Gerken, Retail Design Consultant
“Bryan is a very quick learner, proved to be more than capable and managed challenges with great skill. He is incredibly organized and motivated to make the projects succeed.”
-Jose Flores, Architectural Designer, J+E Design Studio
"Bryan Jones has collaborated with me on many projects through the years and his illustrations have always been effective in generating enthusiasm for my clients, which is why I hire him.”
-Jeff Grant, Designer in Chief, Grant Retail Design
“What makes Bryan truly outstanding is his ability to reach beyond the capabilities of the software to touch the creative essence of each design project.”
-David Gerken, Retail Design Consultant
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