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Aurore Danielou created this live mural to animate a part of the interactive circuit during the EDUCON 2023 trade show cocktail event. The theme of the mural was 'Ignite your path, (Mets le feu à ton chemin).' She enjoys challenges and creating live art, so don't hesitate to contact us with any project ideas!

The Tontons Makers continue their monthly collaboration with the newsletter of Maison & Objet and have made the animated greetings card 2023, the famous annual show dedicated to design and the discovery of new trends in Paris. Who is this famous duo? Romain creates all the illustrated or graphic visuals and Laurent animates everything for their motion design project.

Giant sculptures made for the APM shopping center in Shanghai based on the illustrations of Antonio Uve.

It’s with pride that we present to you, a second poster for Le Cirque du Soleil, this time for the show Fuzion, bringing together the best moments of the Cirque that have been created for the public of Saudi Arabia over the years. Annick Poirier was able to draw with magic and meticulousness the 2 main characters as well as the sets and acrobats in action with their costumes imagined by Cirque du Soleil. What another great challenge met as a team!

An illustration by Antonio Uve, made for the Christmas promotion of the Shanghai iapm shopping center.

Pablo Pasadas created finalists portraits for the main of animation of Madame Figaro's "Business with attitude" awards evening.  This Parisian event, celebrating its 4th anniversary, honors the success of women in the business world.

One of our newest recruits was shown in Paris on the theme of Bon App! at the Slow Gallery. Louise alias Lavilleetlesnuages ​​shares some photos of the exhibition to uncover a little more about her world and meet her!

From July 13th to August 31st, the artwork of Belgian paper artist of this designer Victoria Bee was in the spotlight at the Carrousel du Louvre. The artist presented her romanticized and colorful vision of a summer day in the heart of the French capital, in partnership with 7 brands of the Galerie: Caudalie, Change Group, La Maison du Chocolat, Lancel, Maxim’s de  Paris, Pylones and Sunglass Hut.

Like last year, Vincent Raineri created an intro movie, as well as all the animated slides and all the partners movies, for the Business with Attitude 2019 event of Madame Figaro. The illustrations are signed by Poppy Magda.

Benoit Tardif illustrated the image of Rock On Surf, a show dedicated to surfing in Anglet, a French town located on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean.

For an event of the shampoo brand Syoss, Victoria Bee created a bathroom and a hair dryer entirely in paper!

Poppy Magda created portraits for the 5 prize-winners, as well as various participants for the evening of Business with Attitude 2019 awards of Madame Figaro.

Giordano Poloni created this illustration for Syncrude company for their exhibition booth in Fort McMurrary, northern Alberta. The image has been placed on a huge board, where two people could pass their heads through and take pictures.

Basterd, one of the trendy restaurants in Montreal's Villeray district, where brunches are to die for, has been given unique floral tapestries by Aurore Danielou. Discover also the decor of a new place in Laval: Les Insulaires, microbrewer for which Aurore has created wallpapers on the theme of tropical and abundant nature to create an exotic island atmosphere.

Pablo Pasadas continues to dazzle us with a new series of personal research around femininity. His idea is always to recreate a second skin by adding layers of texture. A magnificent artistic work that makes us want to see this kind of colorful and lively images everywhere in the streets of major capitals or major fashion centers.

Nicole Jarecz created the illustrations for two postcards distributed during a Chandon event.

Last June, Jérôme Mireault produced three illustrations, including a collaborating work honoring the CSQ congress co-branded by La Personnelle Assurance. The public was invited to participate in the realization of an on-site painting.

We are pleased to unveil four murals made by four artists from the clinic for the new image of the Place Longueil (shopping center). This beautiful projet is signed by the agency ZA communication.The illustrations were made by Anne Cresci, Annick Poirier, Aurore Danielou and Benoit Tardif. 

Florent Hauchard creates 2 illustrations for the magazine distributed during the event Lab Postal 2018 organized by the Post.

Emmanuel Polanco created portraits for the 5 prize-winners, as well as various participants for the evening of Business with Attitude 2018 awards of Madame Figaro.

Vincent Raineri created an intro movie, as well as all the animated slides and all the partners movies, for the Business with Attitude 2018 event of Madame Figaro. The illustrations are signed by Emmanuel Polanco.

A great campaign which started for International Women rights Day. The #donewaiting movement aims at the safety, the equity and the economic justice for women in Canada. A project created by the Canadian Labour Congress in collaboration with the talented Aurore Danielou who drew the artworks. Join the movement: http://www.donewaiting.ca/.

Pablo Pasadas mixes the themes of fashion and music in this series of personal researches. He translated the musical style of 3 former musicians died through feminine characters; Sid Vicious for the punk side, Miles Davis for the jazz side and Elvis Presley with the rock side of the King.

Here are various projects created by Aurore Danielou; the shop windows of the Wonderbra pop up in Toronto. The temporary dressing of a Fred Hamel & Co shop for the rehabilitation of the subway and the Ville-Marie Place of Montreal. And the portrait of a young woman named Rose.

Benoit Tardif created with the Leo Burnett agency the branding for the Kellogg's Canada Mini-Wheats truck for the Hot Milk Man campaign. On a chilly morning in Canada, one town got a surprise visit from the Hot-Milk Man. And the rest was history... see here the short commercial video.

Kelly Schykulski created the image of the next symposium of Acome (1st cooperative French industrial company, and leading player in the cable, wires and sunthethic tube market) which will take place from May 8th to 13th 2018 in San Francisco with an immersive route of a day in the Silicon Valley.

Guy Laliberté, founder of the Cirque du Soleil, chose Jérôme Mireault to create several illustrations and typographies of DJs' Three Amigos! new label! of which he is a member. Jérôme illustrated the poster of their first event A Night in Candy Land which took place in Ibiza.

Benoit Tardif had lots of fun creating this photo mix for the young and the not-so-young! His artwork is shown at the Zoo of Granby, in Quebec. This illustration was created as part of a partnership with the Caméra Explora project.

What a beautiful event that took place last weekend at Sephora in Quebec city. Katrinn Pelletier personalized Philosophy tote bags for 35 lucky customers, so they can show them on the beaches this summer.

This is a teaser! In August, we will be present a nice series of illustration for a contest at Les Galeries de Hull shopping center in Gatineau, Quebec, by Jérôme Mireault in collaboration with the Cominar agency.

The Society for the Celebrations of Montréal’s 375th Anniversary and the LG2 agency appealed to the talent of Sonia Roy to realize the visual of the 2017 campaign of the Montreal festival: We're Acting Out! Le Quartier des Spectacles is currently being invaded by the largest street art groups from Quebec and worldwide.

Damien "Elroy" Vignaux created the opening film, as well as all the animated slides for the award ceremony on the Business with Attitude event organized by Madame Figaro that highlights the female entrepreneuship. The portraits of 6 finalists were, as for them illustrated by David Despau.

For the awards ceremony of the Business with Attitude event organized by Madame Figaro, highlighting female entrepreneurship David Despau created the portraits of the 6 finalists. Damien "Elroy" Vignaux created the opening film, as well as all the animated slides for the awards ceremony.

Here a drawing drawn by Benoit Tardif on 50 000th Bixi bike made by PBSC Solutions urbaines. This bike was offered to the City of Montreal as part of the city's 375th anniversary. The illustration highlights how the Bixi bikes are now everywhere on the planet.

Illustrations produced live in the CCA (Canadian Center for Architecture) for Phyllis Lambert's anniversary. A beautiful evening filled with renowned guests who were delighted to be gifted their portrait closed to Phyllis Lambert's one, which was created in advance by Nicole Jarecz. Congratulations to the artists Jérôme Mireault, Aaron McConomy, Dan Svatek and Dan Buller for the live performance and their excellent work.

The main image of the Festival Twist, the Quebec knitting and fiber festival, was confided to Katrinn Pelletier for the 2017 edition. The release of this picture had an enormous craze this week on Katrinn’s page, generating more than 12 500 views. Just below, she presents us her new vintage series which she named: my Florists. Her illustrations, a bit surrealist with feminine characters and oversized flower bouquets, put forward the beauty of the physical diversity of women.

Steve Scott has created these fun and playful posters for Toyota Canada and help to promote the Service Advisors in Toyota dealerships in the whole country.

Florent Hauchard is exposing now at the Tiny Café, in Paris, during the exhibition Space Cowboy.

Last Thursday, May 11th at the Livart was held the Competition Lux 2017, and the winners were unveiled. This event underlines the excellence in photography and in illustration in Quebec. This year, Marie-Christine Brisson, partner of the private hospital, was a member of the jury illustration. Benoît Tardif of the agency obtained 2 awards, one for the book cover Géolocaliser L'Amour from Editions Ta Mère and the other one for his participation in the big campaign illustrated for Producteurs de Lait du Québec. Thanks to LG2 and also to Infopresse to support the illustration in Quebec and for your invitation!

On the occasion of the world launch preview of the concept car New York of the dealer Genesis Motors, Aaron McConomy, Dan Svatek, Éric Caron et Jérôme Mireault, 4 artists of the team Colagene drew live the guests VIP in the heart of the Old-port of Montreal. The guests were all able to leave with a beautiful original, signed and unique souvenir of this beautiful evening.

You had already loved in 2016 the poster "Of Mice and Men" by Emmanuel Polanco for The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, so for 2017 this poster has again won an award of Communication Arts’ annual 2017 Design Competition. Look at the video where John Malkovich comments the project of the 40th anniversary of The Steppenwolf and you will discover that this poster is, as a Sir J. Malkovich said it himself, "really f ** king cool" as he hung on it in his magnificent bathroom. Again, Thanks to The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Ogilvy and Mather Chicago crew and Sir John Malkovich!

You had already had a sexy foretaste last month, here are the pictures of the Meeting JASMIN Fine Art Exhibition at Ace Gallery on July 14th 2016 in Los Angeles, where we can find the remarkable work of Mydeadpony.

Infographics allows to visualize more easily a set of data, which can be rather complex. An image is often worth a thousand words when it comes to spreadsheets or texts. Colagene also makes infographics, here are some examples. To see more, visit the Infographics tag.

Benoit Tardif created large format illustrations for the scene of the new musical program “Stereo Pop”. This decor was specially designed for Philippe B.’s live performance this autumn. This program is hosted by Pierre Lapointe and Claudine Prévost and broadcasted on Friday nights at 8 pm on ICI Radio-Canada Television.

Here's a motion design signed Damien Vignaux for the opening of an event created by M6 French TV channel, for the launch of a new data plateform nammed Smart Audience. The art direction of this event which was held at the Palais de Tokyo, was assured by Vincent Sillard, partner of the Graphic design clinic and the creative clinic.

Colagene and its illustrators from Montreal participated to the first edition of the art fair organized by Mural public art festival. Our Positive Side Effects screenprints, limited edition, on sale at our kiosk for the event, were very popular. Visitors were also able to follow the live creation of a collaborative artwork illustrated by Jerome Mireault, Éric Caron, Aaron McConomy, Marie-Eve Tremblay and Dan Svatek.

What a creative and educative project generated by the city of Laval (Quebec province). Benoit Tardif had a lot of fun customizing a truck with a playful illustrated little characters all happy to read. The truck will be used as a mobile library and will circulate this summer in different hoods of Laval city to promote reading to the population. Follow the mobile library on Facebook

During C2MTL that took place in Montreal in last May, our storyboarder Eric Caron was invited to illustrate live ideas and key-words brainstormed during a masterclass organized by telecommunications and internet service provider : Tata communications. The theme of the discussion was about the social and economic impacts of the democratization of Internet and telecommunications access in emerging countries.