Marie-Chantale is an art director, illustrator, web designer and painter. As an extremely creative person, ideas seems to get out of her head at a speed anyone would find hard to follow. Commonly nicknamed m-c, she now lives and work in Montreal, Canada, coming back from Germany where she spent 4 years working as art director.

Her main interests converge around music, arts and communications, popular culture and new medias. As an active blogger, she is a trend observer in the development of the ever-expanding medium that is the internet, providing her artistic point of view as part of this new indie subculture.

Over the past few years, she has done web design for many clients within the music industry (Universal Records, Deutsche Grammophon, edel Records). She recently worked as art director for several clients in Montreal including Hydro-Québec and the National Library of Quebec.

Her design work was seen in publications like Cre@te Online (UK), Design Monthly (Hong Kong), Cybershop (DE), Futurist Guide to the web (Hong Kong), and Communication Art Online (USA) while her illustrations have been seen in Skirt! Magazine (USA), Figurati magazine (Brasil) and into the Fox 2003 day planner. Her most recent artwork can be seen on her website, namely a sensitive series inspired by the Ipod as a device to connect people in urban centers.

Visit her blog at www.mcturgeon.com/blog