COLLECTED MONTREAL STORIES

As part of the city exploring process I started with the Potholes poster series, I went on a new hunt for Montreal stories worth telling.

In order to retrieve parts and bits of my city, I spent a day walking its streets with wide sheets of paper and retracing found objects and textures like , bike wheels, nails, electric cords, pieces of toast. The result: you can wear a part of montreal.

work for Sid Lee Collective

POSTER SERIES + NEW AWARD AND EXHIBITION

My Nids-de-Poule poster series has just been selected by the Hong Kong Heritage Musem to be exposed at the 2007 Hong Kong Poster Triennal and to be featured in their catalogue. The trienal opens on November 24th.

This poster series is part of a collective creation and exhibition celebrating Montreal's nomination as a UNESCO city of design. I akways thought that beauty and the sense of unique lays within the citiy's imperfections (if anything, its potholes are at least as impressive as it 1976 olympics) So asphalt became for a few weeks my canvas for ephemere urban interventions that surprised passers-by, offuscated a few landlords, annoyed people stuck in traffic and generated quite a buzz amongst design afficcionados.

The medium used was actylic based paint, applied directly onto the asphalt, and it lasted for about 4-5 weeks.

Mars et Avril

Mars et Avril est un photo-roman moderne, hybride et débridé.

Fugitive love, collective unconscious and parallel dimensions are shaping the narrative content, enriched by the evocative power of images. In this book, graphic design does not only establish cohesion between text and images, it is a language in itself, which participates to tell the story. The detailed, intricate line work of the drawing operates in a harmonious partnership with the author's finely crafted writing, and the engaging pictures.

À la poursuite du fantasme is written by Martin Villeneuve. Photography is by Yanick Macdonald and graphic design by Roxana Zegan. The book is published by Les Éditions de la Pastèque, in collaboration with the agency Sid Lee in Montréal, and was launched on October 16th, 2006.

Cirque du Soleil, 2005 campaign

The first campaign I art-directed for Cirque du Soleil was for its 2005 show, Corteo. A 121 stories high poster brings a sense of surreal to Times Square, as it graces the entire façade of the W Hotel.

Corteo, which means "cortege" in Italian, is a joyous procession, a festive parade imagined by a clown. The show brings together the passion of the actor with the grace and power of the acrobat to plunge the audience into a theatrical world of fun, comedy and spontaneity situated in a mysterious space between heaven and earth.

School Projects//Workshops//Early work ( 2001-2004)

Theese few projects are from my years emerging as a graphic designer. Realised at Uqam (Montreal) and Trento University (Italy), as well as for diverse competitions and workshops around the world, they are my first steps into the world of storytelling.

1. Épreuve de distance, limited edition exhibition catalogue, in collaboration with my amazing typography teacher, Judith Poirier and Marc-André Roy, an absolutely fantastic colleague and designer // Grand Prix Grafika 2004 (Montréal)


2. The visitor, photographic interpretation of Italo Calvino's Les villes Invisibles. A compilation of photographs and traveller's notes taken during a 3 months trip to Trento // Trento University Fellowship (Italy)


3. Ailleurs, typography project: a colelction of short stories for travellers. Silk sreened on hand made paper, all pages «verso» are printed only in varnish so they reveal their message only in certain lighting conditions // awarded at Output 07, (Germany) and part of D&AD new blood collective (London)


4. Shiny Museum, book project for Angela Grauerholz' book class. The book is a museum on paper, Its classification code is based on Samuel Beckett's Quad and the rental system of Waxman, a tuxedo and shoes store. that is also an icon of Montreal //awarded & exhibted Output: 06 (Germany)


6. Minimalist composers, b&w silk screend poster series// awarded & exhibted at TDC 24 (New York) and Output: 06 (Germany)