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David Despau shares with us portraits of great footballers from around the world for the bottled water Cabreiroa and a sublime female portrait for VSM Magazine. Then, he is honored to have been selected as a jury member for the World Illustration Awards 2023.

Subkit asked Marie-Christine Brisson, Colagene Associate and Rep to take part in an interview this spring. They are running a new interview series called Go Solo featuring Quebec business entrepreneurs in arts & crafts and fine arts. The webzine would love to share our experience building Colagene Clinique Créative with their community of solopreneurs and business owners. She accepted with pleasure and is happy to share with you the result of her reflections in this interview and a bit of history of Colagene since the debut in 2001.

Annick Poirier was proud to win 3 prestigious awards from Applied Arts magazine in the advertising campaign category with her series of portraits for Red Bull Symphonic, then the portrait of Billie Eilish and this floral creation, All in her new hyper realistic style. Congratulations Annick, a year of great projects!

+ Marie-Christine + Co-Founder + Rep + Art Director. Since 2001, between Montreal, Paris and London, she takes up all creative challenges with her team of reps and artists! She knows how to give shape to her ideas, both the creative and entrepreneurial sort. Although she has had a long-time fascination with fashion design, Marie-Christine turned to painting to express her creativity. After few years of working as an artist, she decided to take on a new set of challenges and entered the world of communications. She earned a bachelor's degree in graphic design from the Université du Québec à Montréal and continued her studies in advertising and marketing. In 2001, she founded her own agency, Colagene, which allowed her to bring to life her own personal concept of visual communication. Over the years, she has built up a team of illustrators from all over the world, who distinguish themselves though the originality of their approach to design, their inventiveness, and the excellence of their work. Marie-Christine has a flair for finding custom-made visual solutions, and she has the gift of being able to find the delicate balance between the passions of her illustrators and those of her most demanding clients. + Colagene, Creative Clinic, and Marie-Christine the perfect allies ! Contact : mbrisson@colagene.com + 1-514-845-4730
Portraits from 2001 and 2021

Last year, the FTQ chose Marie-Eve Tremblay to cover their education program based on apprenticeship transfer. The illustration was to represent the themes “Learning to See Differently”. And she shares two new summer creations freshly made. And one of her illustrated books in England is nominated for The Queens Knickers Awards!

We are very pleased to announce that Annick Poirier has won the prestigious award given by Applied Arts magazine in the category of personal illustrations. Congratulations Annick! So did Owen Gent once again, with the Amnesty International campaign with the Cossette agency, which won all this year.

Nicole Jarecz, American illustrator living in Detroit has been selected to appear in The Fible, this book brings together a selection of world fashion artists. And, we present you her latest fashion creations. Nicole loves editorial, advertising, web and social media campaigns for fashion or beauty brands.

Our very talented Louise alias Lavilletlesnuages had the pleasure of seeing her work presented in the superb and original magazine Le Prescripteur by Prescription Lab. Her illustrations about women were highly appreciated by readers. Then, discover more of her ideas about femininity!

Exciting news for Victoria Bee and the clinic! The New York-based magazine's 3X3 competition, which selects the best in international illustration each year, invited Victoria Bee to join the jury of 2020. Members from all over the world and from various horizons such: Apple, NY Times, Spielgel store ... An enriching experience that lives up to her talent!

At the end of March, our dear Russian artist Dima Godunov, lost his battle against the brain cancer with which he had been fighting for a few years. He was so strong that we hoped he would win his fight in the past few months. We wish him to be at peace now, far from his sufferings and we wish to pay him a little visual tribute in our way by this news. Bon voyage Dima, what courage, you will remain one of us!

We are very proud to announce that Oscar Llorens has become one of the 200 best illustrators in the world in 2018 according to Lürzer's Archive.

Here are 31 beautiful posters illustrated by Emmanuel Polanco for the 31Bullets campaign. The project, executed by Ogilvy & Mather Chicago in collaboration with TheBridge.co, aims to raise awareness of gun control laws in the United States. Project awarded by a Silver Lion in Cannes.

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!

It's with a great pleasure that we share you the interview of Marie-Christine and Vincent, partners of the clinics of Montreal, established in 2001, and Paris in 2008. This article is signed Grenier Magazine from Grenier aux Nouvelles, famous website on the communication and the media in Quebec. Read the article.

Cypi Press has just published a very beautiful book on the illustrations in fashion simply entitled New Fashion Illustration. Ëlodie, besides finding herself in the selection of the internal pages, made the cover also. We also find the following artists represented by the clinic: Anne Cresci, David Despau, Katrinn Pelletier, Mamzelle Poppy, Mydeadpony, Nicole Jarecz and Silke Werzinger ! 

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!

Discover in 1 min 30 the world, the technique and Raphaël "Mydeadpony" Vicenzi's inspirations in his hometown, in Brussels. His last project is very "hot", in association with Jasmin TV channel shows the charm and the goddesses' beauty of the channel. Do not hesitate to discover the online gallery of Jasmin TV and treat yourself with a piece of art by Mydeadpony.

Sample magazine, which puts forward the best Collage projects worldwide, selected 14 artists of 14 countries for its special Collage Design issue. We are proud that Sonia Roy is one of the members selected.

Interesting interview of Nicolas Dehghani on Applied Arts Magazine's website where we can learn some secrets of creation of the new illustrator in the team.

Discover Kelly Schykulski’s little secrets in the article of the Applied Arts blog called “New work by Kelly Schykulski”. See his last project with Alberta Views and its 10 tourism mini-guides for the year 2015.

In preparation of Expo 2020 Dubai which will be held in Dubai, Takeshi illustrated one of the 21 sculptures which will be exposed in the city in the next days. Among 3 themes that are: Mobility, Sustainability & Opportunities, Takeshi represented the sub-theme Culture. More information.

Mamzelle Poppy tells us more about her beautiful work in an interview with Flannelle, a cultural magazine and webzine about fashion, art & design and music (from Montreal). 

Congratulations to David Despau and Mydeadpony who are part of the (strict) selection of the Taschen Book 100 Illustrators. The biggest players in the highly competitive field of illustration. Culled from our Illustration Now! series is this selection of today’s most successful and important illustrators from around the globe.

Congratulations to Ëlodie and Nicole Jarecz who are in the last book published by Julius Wiedemann at Taschen : Illustration Now! Fashion.

Several illustators at the clinic won an award at the illustration contest of the magazine Applied Arts. Discover the works that won below. For more details, visit the complete list of winners here.

The month of lovers is ongoing. The beginning for some and a renewal for others. One sure thing is there is a revival in February; weather is warming up slowly, daylight and birds are more present. At the clinic, Spring is a month early and we are offering you a bouquet of colours for the pleasure of your eyes!

This month, Anne Cresci creates Marionnaud window displays for Valentine's Day, Takeshi illustrates the new campaign of Federation of Golf in France, Kelly Schykulski creates illustrations in a directory for the network of engineers of Quebec, Florent Auguy unveils a series of portraits in black and white between realism and fantasy, 3 illustrators from the clinic are part of the book 1000 Portrait Illustrations, Ëlodie illustrates the beauty of women and the Fashion Week of Paris. Things are moving on the motion design side with the arrival of the talentuos duo of directors "Das Schloss".

The wallpaper to download this month is a montage of portraits created by Florent Auguy, loyal illustrator at the clinic working in the video game industry. Join our community on our Facebook page that has now more than 3700 fans!

The book 1000 Portrait Illustrations: Contemporary Illustration from Pencil to Digital has just released in bookstores. It contains the beautiful work of many illustrators at the clinic, such as Ëlodie, Anne Cresci, Adam James Turnbull, Nicole Jarecz, Chris Arran, Géraldine Georges and Kimi Kimoki.

The book 1000 Portrait Illustrations: Contemporary Illustration from Pencil to Digital has just released in bookstores. It contains the beautiful work of many illustrators at the clinic, such as Ëlodie, Anne Cresci, Adam James Turnbull, Nicole Jarecz, Chris Arran and Géraldine Georges.

The Ten by Fotolia series introduces the 10 best French digital artists into videos about their inspirations and techniques. In addition to the video, Ten by Fotolia provided a psd file of each creations made by every artist for a period of 24 hours to demonstrate even more the educational aspect. After Emeric "Takeshi" Trahand, it's now the turn of Damien "Elroy" Vignaux, multidisciplinary artist (DJ, VJ, film-maker, illustrator, photographer...) native from Toulouse, based in Berlin. Enjoy!

Sonia Roy – Eplores Dreamscapes

There’s a dreamlike, allegorical quality to Canadian artist Sonia Roy’s work: vintage portraits are cast into enigmatic landscapes, and watched over by birds and foxes. They are highly evocative: hinting at emotionally charged, half-forgotten tales.

“Each of my pieces start with the characters. They are the narrators of my stories,” she explains. “Their expression and pose are very important to me.” In her images, 1950s pin-up girls beam coquettishly, and Edwardian children solemnly gaze on, surrounded by strange industrial landscapes and twisting branches.

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It’s with great pleasure that we are posting a few pictures of last Friday June 1st 2012 launch. The event took place at the wonderful Docks - Cité de la Mode et du Design. We invite you to visit the exhibit and discover more than 200 work of art, including a series by Marie-Eve Tremblay. Entrance is free from May 31st until June 30th, 2012. This year’s theme was the artists’ vision of “Home”, as displayed in an original scenography. Enjoy the exhibit!

Colagene reached over 3,000 Facebook fans, thanks to your loyalty and support. For the occasion, Adam James Turnbull realized this illustration, under the Graphic Design Clinic artistic direction. Next objective: 10,000 fans ! Tell your friends to "like" Colagene to make the community grow, the agency’s talents and realizations need to be seen by creatives worldwide.

Francis Léveillée won an LUX award in the “business communication” category for its illustration realized for Get your illustration fix 2011 colagene guide book and the serigraphy

Not less than 8 illustrateurs from the clinic are featured in the latest edition of Taschen's The Illustration Now! series, that keeps bringing you groundbreaking work by the world’s most exciting illustrators:

- Anne Cresci
- Damien Vignaux
- Edward McGowan
- Karen Klassen
- Monsieur Qui
- Nazario Graziano
- Nicole Jarecz
- Oscar Llorens

CB News - (information and decryption) magazine of profesional press made for agencies, broadcasters, and medias and communications profesionals - published a spread page featuring the Nokia project, for which Vincent, representative and associate at the clinic, has realized a fun and uncommun graffiti performance on 2 Volkswagen Combi.

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See Damien Vignaux's making of

Congrats to Karen Klassen, Julien Pacaud and Edward McGowan, winners of the Canadian contest Applied Arts Illustration Awards. Their illustrations are featured in the new special edition currently on newstands.

Congrats to Karen Klassen and Edward McGowan for winning the Communication Arts Illustration Annual awards in USA. Their illustrations appear in the special edition magazine.

Born to Be Unique. Don’t miss reading "Illustration Discovery”, the exclusive interview with Marie-Christine Brisson, co-founder of the Colagene agency, by Born to Be Unique! (French only, unfortunately!)

Applied Arts. as well as the post on Applied Arts blog

Grafika 2010. Collaboration in the Canal Savoir project, recipient of an award in the category Motion Design - Culture. By Gabriel Poirier-Galarneau, Martin Laliberté, Emmanuel Polanco, Mathieu Babin and Underground Productions. 

Congratulations to all winners

Computer Arts. 3 Colagene illustrators appear in this month issue of the magazine Computer Arts: Handmade versus  Digital (Issue 133) A must-read, interviews on Takeshi, An urban playground, and one on Bombo, Handmade meets digital. As well as an article in which Julien de Repentigny reveals the secret of his technical work. See the video: vimeo.com/9042094

Two of the Clinic's illustrators presented in the book "Great New Fashion Design" from German publisher Zeixs.

The famous Taschen collection presenting actual global talents is back with its 3rd edition & the Colagene team is proud to have been selected again among its prestigious new recruits. Sean Freeman, Takeshi, Sonia Roy, Silke Werzinger, Mydeadpony & Theo Gennitsakis: accomplished & original artists with trendy styles, visionary concepts at your fingertips.