Freelance Illustrator / Designer / Artist
Montreal, Canada Area
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- Productrice at Creacamp
- Owner at meïdia
- Artist - Illustrator at M-C Turgeon, Art & Design
- Past
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- Art Director at Neomedia Montreal
- Art Director at Deepblue Networks - Scholz & friends Hamburg
- Designer at Public Technologie Multimedia
- Web designer at Public Technologies Multimedia Montreal
- Web designer at Public Technologies Multimedia
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Marie-Chantale Turgeon’s Summary
2009: Listed as one of the 10 most influencials bloggers in Québec, Radio-Canada, Feb. 2009
2008: Nominated as one of Canada’s Most Influential Women in Social Media.
About Marie-Chantale Turgeon:
Artist and founder of meïdia, she’s also well known as an active blogger and podcaster. An extremely creative person, ideas seem to get out of her head at a speed anyone would find hard to follow. She is known to be a trend observer in the development of the ever expanding medium that is the internet, not without her artistic point of view, which makes her a part of this new indie subculture.
Art director, artist, illustrator and explorer of the world, Marie-Chantale Turgeon's innovative, thought provoking work, has been featured in Elle, Spin Magazine (US), ISh Magazine, Taxi Magazine, Goodie Bag Media (Asia), The Gazette, La Presse, Urbania (Canada), Le Monde (France), Skirt Magazine (US), and the Huffington Post (US).
About Meïdia Studio:
We strongly believe that helping people communicate with each other online is more important than trying to sell them something. Our goal as individuals is to contribute to the development and evolution of the internet, as this medium is in our opinion, one of the most exciting communication tool of our era.
Clients: La courte échelle (Epizzod.com), National Film Board of Canada (NFB) for CitizenShift and Parole Citoyenne's communities, Le Cirque du Soleil, Ubisoft, Radio Canada, Musique Plus's VoxPop, Culture Québec, Tellabs, Article Studio, P45, Maison d’édition de La courte échelle, Astral Média Interactif, Passeport Santé.
Marie-Chantale Turgeon’s Specialties:
Illustration, calligraphie et art pour les marchés de la mode, de la musique, de l'édition et de la publicité.
Illustration and art for fashion, music, editorial, advertising, and publishing markets.
Tel que vu dans / As seen in: Skirt Magazine, The Huffingtonpost, Ish Magazine, 1000 Artist Journal Pages, Cr@ate Online, Taxi Magazine, Goodie Bag Media, and the Fox River paper Agenda.
Marie-Chantale Turgeon’s Experience
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Productrice
Creacamp
(Arts and Crafts industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Une bouffée d'air frais dans l'univers des créatrices, Creacamp c'est un événement où des conférencières de tout domaine sont choisies pour venir présenter leur travail dans le but de stimuler et d'inspirer les gens réunis. Échanges colorés et rencontres stimulantes sont assurés!
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Owner
meïdia
(Online Media industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Head & Creative director
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Artist - Illustrator
M-C Turgeon, Art & Design
(Arts and Crafts industry)
January 2000 — Present (10 years )
Inspired art, illustration and hand lettering. My work focuses on inspirational art, creativity and growth, and has appeared in the Huffingtonpost, Elle, Glamour and Spin Magazine.
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Art Director
Neomedia Montreal
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Montreal, Canada
Clients: BNQ, Hydro-Québec
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Art Director
Deepblue Networks - Scholz & friends Hamburg
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 5 months)
Hamburg, Germany
Clients: Universal Records, Deutsche Grammophon, edel Records
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Designer
Public Technologie Multimedia
(Online Media industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
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Web designer
Public Technologies Multimedia Montreal
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)
June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Montreal, Canada
Clients: Lands End, JC Penney, Diesel, Levis -
Web designer
Public Technologies Multimedia
(Online Media industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Additional Information
Marie-Chantale Turgeon’s Websites:
Marie-Chantale Turgeon’s Interests:
blogging, music, art, feminism, vegetarism, environment, communications, inspiration art, creativity, growth, books, popular culture, street blogger culture, new medias, blogs, social softwares, podcasts, podcasting, new web technologies, videoblogs, vlog, web 2.0
Marie-Chantale Turgeon’s Groups:
Creacamp
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Creative Art Consultants -
Creacamp
Marie-Chantale Turgeon’s Honors:
2008:
Canada's most influential people in Social Media, Semi-finalist.
2007:
IETM
Journée Magazine
Journal Le Soleil
Infopresse - Panel on web 2.0
Bourse Rideau - Panel
2006:
Parole Citoyenne - Panel
ADISQ - Panel
Radio-Canada, SimonDurivage.com - TV
Radio-Canada, Le point - TV
2005:
Cirque du Soleil blogger - Text, video, pictures, video and audio blogging
Canal Vox, Esprit libre - TV December
TVA, L'Explorateur Urbain - TV November
CBC Sounds like Canada - Radio November
La Presse - Print
Elle Canada - Print
Urbania #10 - Print
Télé Québec, Méchant Contraste - TV
Journal Voir - Print
The Gazette - Print
Zundfunk radio - Radio
Spin Magazine - Print
Mutek 2005 - Panel
Ztélé - TV
TVA, news report - TV
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