Accessing node reference data from inside the view of an unrelated type

Here are the steps I have done to create the functionality I'm hoping to achieve:

- create a new content type called 'clients' - this will hold client the client name and an associated image
- create a new content type called 'project' - this will have data for a new project. In this content type I created a field called "field_client" which makes a select list from the node reference of 'clients'.

This works great as when I go to create a new 'project' it gives me a select list of the different 'client' nodes.

- I set up a view to filter just the 'project' types. When I test the views service, the projects are displayed as follows:

Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[field_client] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[nid] => 10
)

)

)

The views.get is working great as well. The issue herein lies that I want field_client to return not the node id, but the actual fields inside of that node (title, image). Ideally I am looking for something this (forgive my lack of php syntax):

Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[field_client] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[nid] => 10
[title] => client name
[image] => reference to image field
)

)

)

This way I have a string that I can pull the client name from directly.

Any thoughts/suggestions?

Thanks!