The MontClaire

Role

CREATIVE DIRECTION, BRAND STRATEGY, FULL BRAND NARRATIVE, AND VISUAL IDENTITY

Client

The MontClaire

Industry

Multifamily Residential

Project type

Brand strategy and identity

Work completed at

Project overview

The MontClaire is a seven-story residential building on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard in Kearny Mesa, steps from Convoy Street and a mile and a half from its sister property, Elowen. It has the same owner and a nearly identical amenity list. That left one question to answer: why this one?

The answer had to come from the brand. It started with the name. Claire comes from the French for clear and bright, and we read it as a glow that comes from within the home rather than something it borrows from the view.

Not afraid to take its time. Where the day lets go.

The MontClaire stationery: embossed brown envelope, monogram coaster and patterned card reading Let the light in
The MontClaire website on a laptop: The light at the end of the day
The MontClaire poster for the Kearny Mesa Certified Farmers Market
The MontClaire brand pattern with Simply, The MontClaire. San Diego, California
The MontClaire wordmark set vertically over a blurred green garden
The MontClaire logo on a large lobby screen above an escalator