April 04, 2005

Marie-Chantale Turgeon - Bio

(french version bellow)

View her portfolio website here,
view her weblog, Vu d'ici - Seen from here, here.

Marie-Chantale is an art director, illustrator, web designer and painter. As an extremely creative person, ideas seems to get out of her head at a speed anyone would find hard to follow. Commonly nicknamed m-c, she now lives and work in Montreal, Canada, coming back from Germany where she spent 4 years working as an art director.

Her main interests converge around music, arts and communications, popular culture and new medias. As an active blogger she is also known to be a trend observer in the developpement of the ever expanding medium that is the internet, not without her artistic point of view, wich makes her a part of this new indie subculture.

Over the past few years, she has done web design for many clients within the music industry (Universal Records, Deutsche Grammophon, edel Records). She recently worked as art director for several clients in Montreal including Hydro-Québec and the National Library of Quebec.

Her design work was seen in publications like Cre@te Online (UK), Design Monthly (Hong Kong), Cybershop (DE), Futurist Guide to the web (Hong Kong), and Communication Art Online (USA) while her illustrations have been seen in Skirt! Magazine (USA), Figurati magazine (Brasil) and into the Fox 2003 day planner. Her most recent artwork can be seen on her website, namely a sensitive series inspired by the Ipod as a device to connect people in urban centers.

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Marie-Chantale est Illustratrice, designer graphique et artiste peintre. Elle poursuit maintenant sa carrière à Montréal, revenant tout juste de l’Allemagne ou elle a passé les 4 dernières années.

Ses principaux intérêts tournent autour des arts et communications, de la culture populaire et des nouveaux médias, ainsi que tout ce qui touche le processus créatif et le développement personnel.

Elle a à son actif plusieurs projets web réalisés entre autre pour l’industrie musicale (Universal Records, Deutsche Grammophon, edel Records). Son travail a été souligné dans des publications telle que Cre@te Online (UK), Design Monthly (Hong Kong), Cybershop (DE), Futurist Guide to the web (Hong Kong), et Communication Art Online (USA).

Ses illustrations ont récemment été publiées sur une base mensuelle par le magazine Skirt! (USA), la revue Figurati (Brésil) ainsi que dans l’agenda 2003 des papiers Fox.
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