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This Friday, May 9th 2014 at 14:00pm  to the exhibition Positive Side Effects at Infopresse Gallery will take place a Speedbooking event for any illustrators, storyboarders and motion designers artists living in Montreal, who would like to submit their work to Colagene, creative clinic. If you wish to be selected &  invited to this event, thanks for sending us your book (72 dpi JPG or PDF), website and resume by e-mail to [email protected].Please ensure that you clearly write Speedbooking and your name in the email subject.

If you are selected, an email invitation will be sent to you on Thursday, May 8th. The concept: You will have a few minutes to present your book to Marie-Christine Brisson, Co-Founder of Colagene Montreal and Paris, who will be in Montreal to meet with you in person.

For the month of May, many novelties are upcoming. First of all, Colagene, illustration clinic is becoming Colagene, creative clinic. During the last years, the clinic put forward diversity trough its services. Focused on illustration at the beginning, it now proudly offers rough/storyboard, motion design and filmmaking, plus an art direction as well for the print as for the web. It became obvious that a name update would be appropriated to assert the global service. Which is now able to answer more than properly to an increasing demand from our customers.

Then, for the official release of its new guide entitled Positive Side Effects, Colagene, creative clinic, organizes a series of events of the same name that is going to begin in Montreal Thursday, May 8th. Thereafter, the event will continued in France. First in Sète, from May 22nd, under the K-Live Festival, then in Paris, Thursday, June 19th at Corner44 gallery. Circle these dates on your calendar and come to meet us, celebrate the talent and have a good creative moment.

And, like every month, discover below a meticulous seclection of the latest creations at the clinic to inspire you.

- The illustrators and agents of the clinic

For the official release of its new guide entitled Positive Side Effects, Colagene, creative clinic invites you to its event that will take place on Thursday, May 8th, from 5pm to 10pm, at Espace Infopresse in Montreal. During the opening, a very limited edition series of 17 large-format screenprints will be unveiled. Below, discover those illustrated by Emmanuel Polanco, Kelly Schykulski and Ëlodie. During the evening, illustrators will create on the spot a live performance with audience interaction. Sign up now and share the Facebook event.

Contest for fans from Quebec : Get a chance to win a screenprint by finding out the name of the Quebec illustrator who created the preview below ! More details.

Character illustrations signed by Jérôme Mireault for The guide to the great outdoors, a printed product catalog promoting outdoor items for Mckinley, a Sports Experts company’s brand.

Benoit Tardif illustrated an article published in Université du Québec à Montréal's magazine : Inter magazine which is dealing with issues and environmental matter that government are facing with road traffic congestions in larger urban areas of the Province of Quebec.

Jérôme Mireault illustrated, for Avenue Calgary Magazine, a current situation about smartphone users ignoring each other and their surroundings when they go out to the bar.

The wallpaper of this month is about the new concept of the creative clinic and the series of events that will start in Montreal on Thursday, May 8th at Espace Infopresse. It was created in 3D by Damien Vignaux, multidisciplinary artist at the clinic.

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

For the annual report of the State of Mississippi, Tonwen Jones had to create, in her collage style, 4 illustrations of portraits and the cover.

Here is the portrait of Richard Doll, a well known British epidemiologist doctor, made by David Despau for Vivre magazine of the League against Cancer in France.

Here is an audacious portrait and 2 symbolic illustrations about the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. They were created for the magazine Philosophie (Germany) by Emmanuel Polanco, one of the collage artists at the clinic. To discover more portraits and conceptual illustrations by Emmanuel, take a look at his latest collaborations.

Here is the last cover illustrated by Nazario Graziano for Bulletin, a London magazine. It shows the very important role of speech and language in the therapy of dementia.