BIOGRAPHY
Marie-Chantale is an art director, web designer, illustrator and painter. She's also well known as an active blogger and podcaster, promoting the best around pop culture and indie music via her Vu d'ici - Seen from here blog. 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. 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. Recent recognitions are coming from magazines such as Spin, then a special podcast recording for German radio Zundfunk, and a participation as panelist for the Mutek 05 festival.
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-QuÃÆÃâÃâébec and the National Library of Quebec. She is now into building meÃÆÃâÃâïdia, a creative studio where she will team up with collaborators to offer different services relating to new web technologies such as blogging, podcasting, and other interactive technologies.
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.
