Rita's license plate

Urbania magazine asked design studios to design a license plate for the province of Québec, in their design issue ( not yet released). Here is the entry of Rita studio.

Infosthetics Paper-Based Visualization Competition

Me and Sébastien Pierre from datalicious built this paper visualization for the Infosthetics Paper-Based Visualization Competition. We didn't win but it was still cool to do the project. Datalicious is a software company that specializes in creating visualization tools to unlock the value of large data sets. Here is our description for our entry:

"The Canadian Federal Departments Travel Expenses visualization represents each department's expenditures as a vertical bar. The deviation from the guidelines is represented as a green or red tip. Each department is laid on a grid in order of ascending size and ascending deviation from guidelines.

This visualization uses paper as a support for aggregating different layers of information into one single visualization. Each edge of the square represents a different aspect of the dataset. By changing his perspective, the viewer can actually change his perspective on the data.

We believe that interactivity is essential to understanding data. The use of paper allowed us to "invert" interactivity. While we have to simulate interactivity in computer programs, the use of paper allows a natural interaction, as one can touch, turn around, study and eventually appropriate the data. Ironically, the inert paper becomes more interactive than a complex computer visualization.

You can visit the contest here

WORK IN PROGRESS: WALL DESIGN

This is a sketch I did for a wall design project. It's for a bar. They used to have paintings of naked women on the wall and they wanted something more "now" but not too masculine and cold. So I want to make futuristic collages using old black and white pictures, to link the old look with the new one. Geometry, lighting effects and space with a feminine touch! But I think they want me to remove the ladies...

Russian Dolls

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Side 2

I painted russian dolls with gouache. It's a xmas gift for my mom, she collects them. I call them russian dolls wearing Mauve Naif hoodies!

If You Could 2008

I participates in the If you Could Diary 2009 contest. Unfortunately my design was not selected. But with all the big names and incredibly talented people participating, it's not a big surprise. The theme this year was "If you could do anything tomorrow, what would it be?" And for me the answer was that I would work in Spain. I went there this summer and I really loved it and I speak some Spanish.

T-Shirt

I was asked to make a t-shirt for the employees of Cafeo Café on St-Denis.

Love of letters

In 2007, we did a letterpress workshop with Glenn Goluska. It was part of the Design International Classes and our teacher was Judith Poirier. We had to design a 13x19 inches poster with a typography quote. This is what Catherine Lebrun and I did.

"A love of letters is the beginning of typographical wisdom. That is, the love of letters as literature and the love of letters as physical entities, having abstract beauty on their own, apart from the ideas they may express or evoke. -John R. Biggs"

Of course we could not resist using the giant wooden letters!