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| Roch Anctil |  | 4G.17-B | 3408 |
| Position(s): | Born in the Eastern Townships, Rock Anctil studied graphic design at Collège de Sherbrooke and graduated with a DEC in 1981. He worked freelance then majored in Graphic Design at the Université du Québec à Montréal, graduating in 1985.
He worked for various design offices in Montreal. He and Carina Marinelli created Marinelli+Anctil Art & Design in 1987. The studio has a large variety of clients and has won several awards in Québec, Canada and abroad. Their works have appeared in design publications here, in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Parallel to his practice, he taught graphic design and typography at Collège de Sherbrooke from 1987 to 2000. He also taught typography at Concordia University. He was the co-author of the new graphic design program for Collège de Sherbrooke. Rock Anctil now teaches full time in the Graphic Design Department at Dawson College in Montreal.
As a member of the Société des designers graphiques du Québec (SDGQ), he collaborated in the publication of the book Devenir designer graphique. He previously wrote and lectured about typography and legibility in exhibit design contexts.
Why teaching? “This is the best way to keep learning all the time!” |
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| Chantal Audet |  | 4G.5B | 3401 |
| Position(s): | After obtaining her diploma in Social Sciences, Chantal Audet moved from the Eastern Townships to Montreal to study Graphic Design at Dawson College. Upon graduation in 1988, she was hired by Rolf Harder & Associates. She worked as Harder’s assistant for five years on many projects for clients such as Canada Post, Hoffman Laroche, and Consolidated Bathurst. The influence of Rolf Harder, a member of AGI, was fundamental in shaping her approach to design.
From designing full-time, she went on to teaching parttime, freelancing, and raising a family. While teaching pre-press procedures in her hometown and then for the Marie-Victorin School Board, Chantal obtained a certificate in education from l’Université de Sherbrooke. To keep active as a designer, she worked on many projects, some involving the development of educational and art-therapy tools for the Marie-Enfant Hospital now attached to Ste-Justine Hospital, and others.
She has designed over thirty corporate identities over the last twenty years. In 2000 she became a member of the graphic design faculty at Dawson College. Aside from her full-time teaching at Dawson, she is currently working on branding a new line of fine chocolate, constructing her own house and doing research in the history of visual communication. |
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| Lise Charbonneau |  | 4G.17-B | 3408 |
| Position(s): | A part-time lecturer at Dawson College in 1997 and 1998, Lise joined the Graphic Design Department in 2002. She brings a broad range of expertise acquired as creative vice-president, creative director, and artistic director at Goodhue & Associates, a company well known for its expertise with logos, branding, annual reports, corporate brochures, packaging, multimedia and web design.
Goodhue was merged with the prominent agency Publicis in 2001, giving her experience with major projects in Montreal and Toronto. She worked closely with the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Rona, Canada Post, Lise Watier, CN, Fido, Laurentian Bank, Labopharm and Métro, to name a few.
Some previous experiences allowed her to reinforce her computer skills and to give creative workshops. At SNCLavalin & Lavalin she refined her conceptual approach by working on cultural mandates for Lavalin Gallery, the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, La Cinémathèque québécoise and Imax, and on corporate projects designing logos, corporate identities, brochures and annual reports.
Lise has been awarded in national and international competitions. She has served as a design jury member in Toronto and as an invited guest speaker. Her commitment has been recognized in several books, magazines, and TV programs.
Lise has a diploma in graphic design, and studied fine arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal. During her career, she took classes at Collège de Maisonneuve in computer science, at CESAM in multimedia, at The Québec Institute of Graphic Communications in business communications, at the Saidye Bronfman Centre in drawing and painting, and recently with Seymour Segal creative workshops. In the summer of 2008, she participated in the workshop “Le roman graphique” offered by Lino at École international de Percé of the Université Laval.
Her passion for traveling motivated her to study Japanese language at McGill University. She also took part in several group art exhibitions, and, in 2007, had a solo exhibition at the Warren Gallery of Dawson College. She appears in “Seymour Segal: The Power of Painting,” a film for which she is credited with original concept and participation. |
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| Tania Chiarotto |  | 4G.5B | 3401 |
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| Suzanne Cote |  | 4G.5B | 3401 |
| Position(s): | Upon completion of her bachelor’s degree in graphic design l’Université du Québec à Montréal in 1985, Suzanne studied under Mieczyslaw Gorowski at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Back in Canada, she worked for firms in Montréal and Toronto, as Artistic Director at both Graphème and Goodhue & Associates.
Suzanne then co-founded l’Atelier du Presse-citron, a boutique firm, in 1995. The design studio specializes in exhibition and package design, creating award-winning work for clients such as The Canadian Museum of Civilization, The Bata Shoe Museum, Fruits & Passion and many others. Suzanne has recently started teaching package design to emerging designers at Dawson College.
Since 1988, she received numerous awards notably from The Art Directors Club of New-York, Art Directors Club of Toronto, Graphisme Québec, The Package Design Council International, Studio Magazine Awards, Applied Arts Awards, Grafika, Communication Arts, How magazine, Gilbert Papers, Art 2000/Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, Les prix de la créativité Domtar and Design Inspiration Awards/Fraser Papers. |
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| Nelly Dahan |  | 2G.11-1 | 3214 |
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| Gyula Gefin |  | 4G.17-B | 3408 |
| Position(s): | Gyula Gefin is principal of Gefin Design, a studio based in Montreal that offers creative services in all aspects of graphic design. In 1982, after graduating in Graphic Design from Dawson College, Gyula moved to Milan, Italy where he remained for the following 15 years. His first four years working for Contact Studio, led by a Swiss designer, became an important period in his professional formation. In 1987 he and two partners formed Trio Design, a small innovative graphic design studio offering complete design services.
In 1990 a merger with another studio led Gyula and his partners to create Design in Progress, a multidisciplinary design studio. In 1993, continuing his career as an Art Director at Sudler & Hennessey Milano (a division of Young & Rubicam), he soon became Creative Director of the International Business Unit where he produced numerous award winning projects.
Gyula returned to Montreal in 1997 and, aside from running his design studio, he teaches several design courses at Dawson College. |
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| Ronan Kearney |  | 4G.9 | 3405 |
| Position(s): | Ronan Kearney studied Fine Arts at the National College of Art in Dublin, Ireland and is a graduate cum laude in Graphic and Typographic Design from the Koninklijke Academic Van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Art), The Hague, Holland. He has worked as a graphic designer in Ireland, Canada and the United States
He worked for Corporation ARC in Montreal from 1974 to 1981 and was involved in the design of corporate identities of such companies as VIA Rail Canada, the CN Tower and Maritime Marine. He also worked as a senior graphic designer for Environmental Programs Inc. in Baltimore and New York.
Since 1981 he has been the principal of Signa Design Communications Inc. in Montreal. He is the recipient of design awards from such professional bodies as the New York Art Director’s Club and la Société des designers graphiques du Québec.
He has been a faculty member of the graphic design department of Dawson College since 1991 and is a past Chairman of that department. He is married, collects toy soldiers and has two cats. |
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| Hélène L'Heureux |  | 4G.5B | 3401 |
| Position(s): | Hélène was educated in graphic design at l’Université du Québec à Montréal, graduating in 1979. She joined the design team of Gottschalk+Ash in 1980, becoming an associate in 1985 and a partner in 1991. She opened Interaction/design in 2004.
Hélène designed many annual reports for some of Canada’s largest corporations, such as Petro-Canada, Imasco, Air Canada and SNC-Lavalin. She has led many largescale branding projects: Ciba Specialty Chemicals, a multinational Swiss based company (1996), CGI, Canada’s premier information technology company (1998) and CDP Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Quebec’s Public Pension Fund Manager (2002).
Her analytical capabilities and intimate knowledge of information design have enabled her to develop intricate nomenclature systems and branding guidelines for the above mentioned corporations and others such as Investissement Québec, SITQ and Ivanhoé Cambridge. Hélène has been actively involved with some of Montreal’s important urban environmental projects, providing branding, signage and wayfinding expertise: Lachine Canal, Old Montreal and Complexe environnemental St- Michel.
She has been the recipient of many national and international design awards including a prize from AIGA for Canada Post’s Millennium Stamp Book which is part of the permanent collection at the Rare Books and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. In 1993, Hélène developed the 25-year retrospective exhibition for Gottschalk+Ash which was shown in Montreal, Toronto, Zürich and Bejing, followed by an exhibit, in 1998, for AGI (Alliance Graphique International) at the Royal Ontario Museum. In 2008, she received a prestigious Red Dot Design Award for the Yousuf Karsh Stamp series for Canada Post. Hélène is a member of the Société des designers graphiques du Québec (SDGQ) and a Fellow of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). She teaches part-time at Dawson College in Montreal. |
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| Francois Martin |  | 4G.17-B | 3408 |
| Position(s): | After obtaining his Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from l’Université du Québec à Montréal in 1993, François began working at Paprika as a freelancer and subsequently joined Gottschalk+Ash International as a senior designer for four years. In 1998, he founded Fugazi inc., a design studio where both partners work as consultants in visual communication, mainly with corporate and cultural institutions.
His work includes designing books, exhibition catalogues, as well as developing visual identities and printed corporate communications. François devotes his talent to the development and application of a graphic language that is adapted to a prestigious clientele. In addition, he teaches several courses to emerging designers at Dawson College.
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| Didier Naggiar |  | 4G.7 | 3404 |
| Position(s): | | Also member in the department(s): | Didier Naggiar has been teaching at Dawson College for over 20 years. He also teaches in the Professional Photography Department. He has a Diplôme d’Université en Sciences et Techniques de l’Expression et de la Communication from the University of Censier (Paris III, France) and is a graduate of the Dawson Institute of Photography (1979).
Established in Montreal since 1982, Didier has been working for a variety of magazines and corporations, specializing in product illustration, architecture and corporate photography. For the past several years he has been extensively upgrading his skills in digital photography and computing. When not “glued” to his computer, Didier likes traveling and filling his brain with new images. |
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| Luc Parent |  | 4G.9 | 3405 |
Position(s):| | Department Chairperson | | | Program Coordinator Graphic Design |
| After studying Graphic Design at Concordia University and l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Luc Parent worked as designer and art director in the magazine publishing field. Later, he worked as a freelance designer for many design offices in Montreal. In 1981, he joined Jean Morin (AGI) designers Ltée and was involved in the development of corporate identities and signage system for large Canadian and Quebec Corporations.
He has been recipient of two design bursaries from the government of Quebec and was invited to be on juries for the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, le Ministère des Affaires culturelles and for Concours Grafika. In 1986-87, he worked at Total Design in Amsterdam, Netherlands. On his return to Montreal he joined Lavalin Communication and then La Direction des communications de l’Université de Montréal.
From 1988-2000 he operated his own design studio, serving cultural, institutional and corporate clients. In 1990, he began teaching at Dawson College, Collège Athunsic, Collège du Vieux-Montréal and l’École de design de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 1997, Parent has been a permanent teacher at Dawson College and has served several terms as Chairperson of the Graphic Design Department.
His work has been published in several Canadian, American and European publications. He has also been published in l’Affiche au Québec and le Design au Québec by Marc H. Choko. He has won mentions and awards at design competitions and design biennials such as Brno (Czekoslovakia), Warsaw (Poland), Lahti (Finland), the first Poster Triennal in Moscow, the New York Art Directors Club 6th International Exhibition, The Toronto International Type Symposium and Grafika, Quebec. His posters have been shown in group exhibitions in China, Buenos Aires, Brasil and at the Canadian Cultural Center in Paris, France. Some of his posters are in the permanent collection of the Plakatmuseum am Niederrhein, Germany and in the permanent collection of the Dansk Plakatmuseum, (Danish Poster Museum), Danemark. |
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| Susan Scott |  | 4G.7 | 3404 |
| Position(s): | Susan Scott was educated in England, completing her Dip. Ad in Graphic Design at the Central School of Art and design in London. At her graduate show, she was invited by Colin Forbes to join Crosby, Fletcher, Forbes (now Pentagram) as a junior designer. Emigrating to Canada in 1970, she worked as a book designer at McCelland and Stewart in Toronto. In 1972, she moved to Montreal and worked at Gottschalk+Ash as a designer and illustrator for clients such as the Canadian Wildlife Service, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada Post and Caisse de dépôt et placements du Québec.
In 1976, she joined the Graphic Design Department as a part-time teacher but continued to work as a graphic Designer and Illustrator. In 1980, she became full-time at Dawson and served two terms as the Chairperson of the Graphic Design department. With Roy Carter, she co-wrote the revised Graphic Design Program.
Susan has won a number of design awards and has been published several times in Grafika, Applied Arts and Graphis. She has been a member of design juries at Concordia University and Grafika.
In 2009, Susan retired from full-time teaching to set up design514 and to work as a book and stamp designer. She continues to teach illustration and poster design as a part-time teacher at Dawson. Her work can be seen on www.design514.com. |
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| George Vaitkunas |  | 4G.7 | 3403 |
| Position(s): | Educated in design at the University of Alberta (BA ‘79, BFA ’81), Yale University (MFA ’84) and the Brissago program in Switzerland, George was a designer with Gottschalk+Ash International, Toronto, and Logowitz+Moore Associates, Boston, before opening his own office in Vancouver in 1989. In 2006 he relocated to Montreal. He is the recipient of national and international design awards, including 22 Alcuin Awards for Book Design in Canada and has taught graphic design at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Simon Fraser University and the Maine School of Art.
Among his design credits are the visual identity for Cantel, Inc., annual reports for Xerox Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia and Campbell’s Soup, as well as product literature for Polaroid. Recent projects include the design of books for Douglas & McIntyre, UBC Press, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Canadian Centre for Architecture, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery and Monacelli Press, as well as signage programs with Patkau Architects.
George has served on the executive of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), was an editor of the GDC Journal, and has been a book design competition juror. For several years between 1974 and 1981, he hosted and produced jazz and classical music programs for the CKUA radio network in Alberta.
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| Non-Teaching Staff |
| Alexi Dagher |  | 4G.11-1 | 3410 |
| Position(s): | Also member in the department(s):| | 3D Animation & Computer Generated Imagery | | | Computer Support | | | Fine Arts | | | Illustration and Design | | | Industrial Design | | | Interior Design | | | Photography | | | Visual Arts Computer Center |
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| Vahan Panikian |  | 4G.11-1 | 3411 |
| Position(s): | Also member in the department(s):| | 3D Animation & Computer Generated Imagery | | | Computer Support | | | Fine Arts | | | Illustration and Design | | | Industrial Design | | | Interior Design | | | Photography | | | Visual Arts Computer Center |
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| Helen Wawrzetz |  | 2G.7 | 3200 |
| Position(s): | Also member in the department(s):| | 3D Animation & Computer Generated Imagery | | | Creative & Applied Arts - Office | | | Fine Arts | | | Illustration and Design | | | Industrial Design | | | Interior Design | | | Photography |
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