Étienne 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 manufacturer companies in Canada and Australia.
. 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 .
SKERPA DESIGN, industrial design firm, Montréal, Canada
((08-2007 to 05-2008) and 08-2009 till today)
Under various contracts and upcoming projects as industrial designer and project manager doing product research, concept development, styling, manufacturers research in sporting equipements, shoes, medical and home products.
DESIGN RESOURCE, industrial design firm, Sydney Australia
(July 2008 to February 2009...)
As a full time designer in this renown Australian design consultancy, I was able to work on design projects for big brands like Energizer, Disney, Verifone, Railcorp, Eubakanuba and Scanpan. Unfortunately, my Australian working visa restraint me for working longer in the same company...
DIVCOM LIGHTING, decorative lighting manufacturer, St-Jérome, Canada
(October 2007-June 2008)
I was in charge of creating new products for two distinct decorative lighting brands, one for mass production for Home Depot hardware stores across Canada and the second for more luxurious lighting product families for lighting showroom across North-America. I was also involved in various technical lighting project developments, such as high powered LED task light system and new puck and linear light products.
SURFACE ID, industrial design firm, Montréal, Canada (09-2007 to 11-2007)
Under various contracts and upcoming projects as junior industrial designer doing concept development and styling (Wacom tablet), 3D cad modelling and foam model making.
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 200 illustration contracts, over 4000 prints sold, over 5000 other products, 17 international distributors and more than 100 000 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
. SKILLS .
. 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
. GBRA competition, design furniture with flexible wood, 2005
