A Bit ABout the ArtistÉtienne Carignan
Industrial Designer and illustrator Born in Kingston, Ontario (Canada), I began drawing at a very young age. Art has always taken a very important place in my life. I experiment new mediums to create art that is more and more realistic. I have a passion for sketching cars, but also pretty much anything that goes through my mind. This passion brought me into design school. I have a bachelor degree in Industrial Design from University of Montreal. Since, I've been lucky enough to work in amazing product design consultancies and product manufacturers companies. . EDUCATION . UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL, Montréal, Canada (2003 - 2007)
Bachelors of Industrial Design
COMPIÈGNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, Paris, France (2006)
Exchange semester in Industrial Design
ÉDOUARD-MONTPETIT COLLEGE, Longueuil, Canada (2001 - 2003)
Diploma (DEC) in Applied Sciences . WORK EXPERIENCE. ETIENNE ART, Montréal, Canada (01-2004 to present)
Creator of this illustration and design company
I offer personalized vehicle illustration services as well as vehicle design and restorations. I also sell products bearing the effigy of my illustrations, prints, T-shirt, watches, mugs, etc. Mostly running from Internet websites, Etienne Art also as distributors and stores partnership in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, New-Zealand, France and UK.
While working on my own company, I learned a lot more than drawing cars, I also had to create and maintain a website in html code, create a company graphic identity as well as keeping contacts with clients, distributors and stores.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Over 160 illustration contracts, over 2 500 prints sold, over 2000 other products, 17 international distributors and more than 30 000 web visitors. My car illustrations are also part of two museum exhibitions, in California and in Sherbrooke (CANADA) as well as on magazines covers and articles.
DESIGN PROJECTS:
. 20 vehicle concepts development for Hi-Tech Auto body and a new TV car show idea
. Camaro 68 Body styling for Black Knight Performance Engineering
. ATV vehicle design and logo for Castle Duncan Inc
. Various magazine and product illustrations Just a Sample of the Beautiful Automotive Art and Design by Etienne Carignan 
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. Team work and brainstorming sessions
. Trends and product reality researches
. Project and concept presentations
. Organization and project management
. Local or Asian product fabrication management
. Illustrations and sketches by hand
. Digital illustrations and sketches
. 3D modelling
. 2D technical drawings
. Model Making
FAVORITE PROGRAMS
. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
. Rhinoceros 3.0
. AutoCAD
. Alias Sketch Book Pro with Wacom tablet
. Macromedia Suite
FLUENTLY BILINGUAL - English and French . PRICES AND COMPETITION .
. Public’s choice award at the industrial design graduates` exposition, University of Montréal, 2007
. Public’s choice award at the Technology University of Compiègne’s final projects` exposition, 2006
. First place for the promotional brochure of the School of industrial design, 2004
. Third place winner at the Alcoa ecodesign competition, 2004
. First place winner at the Alcoa ecodesign competition, 2003 . 5th ARGUS European Design competition, design a utility vehicle, 2006
. Bombay Sapphire, designer glass competition, 2006
. Bouty inc competition, design an ecological office chair, 2005
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