Screenwriting, Directing and video Producing compose my art background. 20 years of experience as Art Director & Creative Director, brings a wealth of knowledge to all projects. Art Director & Creative Director 20 years of experience in graphic design, as Art Director & Creative Director, brings a wealth of knowledge to all projects.
My art background combined with a sense of management, communication and ergonomics, underpins all my work, ensuring that composition and layout drive usability and reach its target: fulfill the user needs.
As Creative Director & Art Director in Paris, I worked with clients such as Heineken, Mercedes and Loreal, in Montreal, Vues d'Afrique film festival, FCTNM, Kino...
Short movies Karibou, 2008, Montreal - 12:32 Kabaret version - La tÍte ý l'envers, 2008, Bourges - 3:11 kabaret version - Kaban'Opera, 2007, Brussels - 13:22 French with english subtitles - Ferdinand, dÈserteur,
2006, St Casimir - 6:30 French with english subtitles - Correspondance, 2005, Montreal - 4:00 French with english subtitles, Selected at the Aix-En-Provence Film Festival 2007 - ChÈrie, 2005, Hamburg - 2:53 No dialog - Short movie Writer and Co-Director, The last project done with Marco Bentz, Le RÈveil de l'Ogre is a film we create as a work in progress. Started at fall '09 it will spread all year 2010...
Video Corporate
Director, 2 Projects for the compagny Ecosystem, producer Nagorik, one showing how the biomass is a clean energy for an hospital needs and the corporate one.
Website with Wordpress
Art Direction, Interface design of the website specialy done for the annual convention of the British Chambers of Commerce. CMS used, Wordpress.
Creative, a passion for arts,
I started my ma career with a BaccalaurÈat Arts Plastiques,
and a wide curiosity for ways to communicate, curiosity that I have never lost.
A short visit at Art Center College Europe, in 1991, lead me to elaborate of my own studies programm, made to measure and very cheap, where I learnt the typography basis, layout principles and did some visual experiments combining digital feeling with various analogical substances.
When, in 1994, I had the opportunity to start my own business, I was willing to explore the new rising media which was the internet. A quick learning of the HTML language and a sense of the network capacity changed me in an "evangelist of the internet", not so popular in France at that moment.
A couple of experiences later I'm landing in Montreal where I acquire a new passion in the short movies direction and production.
Today, the exploration in communication arts continues, using this wealth of knowledge.
Since 2004 Freelance, Montreal, Canada
Web designer, Screenwriter & Video Director
ï Designed and created websites for arts associations
ï Art direction and consulting for the intranet of a French
Ý Governmental organization UNEDIC;
ï Followed Screenwriting vocational training;
ï Wrote and Directed short movies;
2000-2003 PlanËte Interactive, Paris, France
Creative Director & Art Director
ï Creative Director and Art Director for French websites
Ý such as Heineken, Mercedes, VirginMega...
ï Management of the creative team and art direction;
ï Preparation of art assignments on client specifications,
Ý in collaboration with the marketing department;
ï Assignments distribution and production planner;
Main Projects Include:
Ý www.heineken.fr - www.lapeyre.fr - www.lapeyre.be
Ý www.francaisedesjeux.fr - www.furet.com
Ý www.mercedes.fr - www.virginmega.fr
Ý www.novartis.fr - www.proximologie.com
Main intranet, extranet projects:
Ý LorÈal - CrÈdit du Nord BankÖ
1998-2000 MatiËre Grise, Strasbourg, France
New Media Department Manager & Art Director
ï Coordinate the department on marketing,
Ý communication & programming assignments;
ï Work with clients on various internet projects including
Ý designing/producing of web site HTML and Flash pages
Ý as well as registering the sites in search engines;
ï Initiated and created with a programmer, a workflow
Ý application to automize production and administration
Ý process of recruitment ads;
Main web site projects:
Ý waterair - aeroshoes - podofrance - mairie de
Ý strasbourg; Website rewarded in 1999 for its user-
Ý friendly design and architecture
Art Direction for main printed projects:
Ý MacDermid Graphic Arts, Strasbourg City Council,
Ý Strafor, Socomec, CrÈdit Mutuel bank, Agence de
Ý Developpement Touristique du Bas-Rhin...
1994-1998 Arkoz, Graphic Design Agency, Strasbourg, France
Manager/Owner
ï Created websites and worked on other media projects
Ý for Latitude, Le Coq Sportif, Orchestre Philharmonique
Ý de Strasbourg, Lilly France, Cognac Martel, Daramic,
Ý Collection Romane / Editions de la NuÈe Bleue...;
ï Worked on assignment along with In Extenso Company
Ý on creating a CD with HTML and browser for a French
Ý bank, Credit Mutuel;
ï Illustrator and Photoshop trainer
1990-1994 Latitude, B to B communication
and Les explorateurs, Corporate design, Strasbourg, France
Graphic designer, Art Director junior
ï Worked on business-to-business projects;
ï Was responsible for graphic design projects of the
Ý company and presented the work to clients;
ï Participated in a six-months project for the Universal
Ý Exhibition of Sevilla in 1992 assigned by Conseil
Ý Regional díAlsace. We created a billboard/stand for the
Ý Pavillion de France, a weekly magazine as well as
Ý guides, brochures, reports for the exhibition and a book
Ý of photography.
1987-1989 Local newspaper, Montpellier
and Marseille, France
Proof reader, Graphic designer
ï Responsibilities included: layout, Illustrator design,
Ý observance of strict deadlines;
ï 1988-1989: In charge of the graphic design night team,
Ý Illustrator team trainer.
