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September: get back to work with Colagene!

Batteries recharged and a head full of sunny memories, it is now time to get back to action. Let us inspire you with this newsletter.
- The illustrators and agents of the clinic, which has almost 5,000 Facebook fans.

Cacharel - Proud to be Romantic / Paris

Baillat Cardell & fils produced the movie "Proud to be Romantic" for Cacharel.com website and for social networks broadcasting. The movie was created in stop motion from over a hundred bottles of perfume and flowers.

Personal research: Novelties / New York

After spending several months in France, Takeshi is back in the Big Apple. Always searching for a unique signature, he introduces us, in exclusivity, three new illustrations. To learn more, consult his portfolio and watch the Fotolia video presenting him.

Long Cours journal / Paris

Shane created 2 illustrations with a strong american feel for the article Dans le costume de Tom Wolfe, American author. Where is the new journalism? How surveys the author of Bûcher des vanités, gonzo style Pope? His characters do really exist? Report behind the scenes of the book Bloody Miami, in the footsteps of the "White Wolf."

New illustrator / Hamburg

The clinic is proud to welcome Andi Meier, a new emerging artist.

After studying graphic-design and illustration in Nuremberg, Andi Meier now lives and works in Hamburg, Germany. He is specialized in clay-illustrations, which are often full with ironic elements and little jokes. We all know clay from childhood or animatic-movies, but he brings a different and modern look in this technic. Andi likes to do this handmade-style and not just sitting all the time at the computer. Anyway his first ambition for his work is to make people smile.

Personal research: volume and beauty / Vancouver

Murilo Maciel created a series of new illustrations in "volume". 3D cities, a fashion montage for fall season, Murilo likes to vary the techniques and has many tricks up his sleeve. Visit his portfolio to see more.

Benoit Tardif / Reader's Digest Magazine / Montreal

Benoit Tardif added his graphic style to the article Is Google making us sick? published in Reader's Digest September issue. The illustator was requested to draw from medical theme,  the letters of Google logo and also a little series of illustrated capital letters to be used in the article.

Nazario Graziano / Philosophie magazine / Paris

Nazario Graziano created a series of illustrations for the Test: Everyone search for his hapiness of the feature about hapiness in the summer issue of Philosophie Magazine.

Télérama Sortir / Paris

Sonia Roy illustrated a series of illustrations for the supplement A Summer in Seine-Saint-Denis of Télérama magazine and TV program. She was in charge of illustrating the cover and article inside about 8 Reasons to go to the 9-3, showing some good things in the Paris suburbs, often misperceived.

Silke Werzinger / McDonald's / France

Silke continues her collaboration with McDonald's and signs a new series of illustrations for the printed advertising campaign about McDonald's commitments towards children.

"Kuruma" wallpaper to download by Takeshi

The wallpaper of this month, Kuruma is illustrated by Takeshi, and based on a new series of personal research. Takeshi is an editorial and advertising illustrator from France living in New York. Feel free to share the wallpaper with others around you in order to make them discover his work.

Versions 1680x1050, 1440x900, 1280x800...
Versions 2560x1440, 1920x1080...
Versions iPhone 4, iPhone 5
Version iPad, iPad mini

Jérôme Mireault / Magazine de l'Université Trinity / Toronto

For an article in the Trinity College Magazine about environmentally responsible approach, Jérôme Mireault had to illustrate many facets of the greening of Trinity, using only two colors to give a particular look to the image.

Enquêtes documentary / Historia / Montreal

Pedro Covo's graphic style was chosen for an advertising campaign promoting Enquêtes, a documentary broadcasted by Quebec's TV channel Historia, about the political heritage left in Canada and in Quebec by Jean Chrétien, Lucien Bouchard and René Lévesque. Pedro was requested to illustrate the portrait of each of these Quebec past prime ministers.

Personal research: watercolor in the spotlight

Ëlodie likes to work the textures. This summer, she wanted to explore the watercolor in her own way. Once again, she surprises us with her refined and captivating illustrations.

Long Cours journal / Paris

Pedro Covo created 5 illustrated fresco for the article La maudite circonstance de l'eau (the damned circumstance of water) part of the feature Regards d'ailleurs. A stroll on the Malecón, hottest  promenade of Havana, on the waterfront, provides an opportunity to think of the insularity, the absurdity of laws, exile, literature, the specificity of a country's identity as strong as Cuba.

Philosophie magazine / Paris

Sonia Roy has designed 2 collages for about Schopenhauer and love of Philosophy magazine.

Personal research: world and fashion / Paris

Nicole Jarecz got inspired by fashion weeks from here and there to introduce these trendy illustrations. To (re) discover the world of Nicole, visit her portfolio.

Tonwen Jones / Personal research: tourist maps / London

Tonwen Jones loves to illustrate tourist maps! She had fun to illustrate maps of India and Iceland, countries that she had the chance to visit.

Lac Mystère Movie / Montreal

Let's talk about illustration and movie, all made in Quebec! Sonia Roy did some amazing vintage collage illustrations for the creation of a puzzle. The object has been especially made for the movie : Lac Mystère, directed by Erik Canuel. Enjoy the photos! We are are also suggesting you to go see the movie which is playing now (in Quebec)!

Ross Cuthbert also makes vector drawing / London

Last May, we made you discover 3D creations by Ross Cuthbert. This month, we share with you his talent as a vector illustrator. Here are some of his latest creations. Many others are to be seen in his portfolio.

Storyboard frame / Dentyne Ice / Canada

For a TV spot concept for the chewing gum brand Dentyne Ice, Jérôme Mireault had to illustrate the key frame representing an intricate and chaotic street scene with people kissing all over the place.

Joop! Miss Wild press kit / Paris

It is in the form of a small pocket that journalists have discovered the press kit of the new fragrance of Coty, Joop! Miss Wild, created by the graphic clinic. This pocket, once opened and unfolded, is actually a poster reapeating the perfume's advertising and containing goodies (tattoo, stickers, badge and a booklet).

Booklet / Joop! Miss Wild press kit / Paris

Inside the folded poster described above, the booklet presents the world of Joop! Miss Wild fragrance, the perfume, the bottle and the muse (the French model Julia Frauche).

For every girl, bad boys are the ultimate treat. The nice girl always falls for the wild guy. She is sweet, adorable, fragile even. But when they are together, she becomes someone else. Free, indomitable, sexy and wild. With him, it feels so good to be bad.

Rockmen / Website / Paris

ROCK is an only male models agency, created in april 2011. ROCK is the first small size, men "boutique" agency in Paris, offering a personalized service. ROCK is part of the group ANIMUS, who owns few different agencies focused on sport and advertising, for 16 years.