Artist of the day, May 21, 2020: Michel Bergeron, a Canadian graphic designer, mentor, sculptor. (#1000)

Michel Bergeron (1951) is an artist, father, designer, teacher, and inspirer with over 40 years of creative experience. His visionary endeavors started when he was very young growing up in Quebec, and sketching during class instead of studying his lessons. Luckily, he made creativity his life pursuit.  

His education includes attending Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY; Graduating from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, and workshops with Armin Hoffman from the Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel. After pursuing an artistic education,  he founded and co-partnered BergeronHamel in New York City, then Atlanta, Montréal, and Mexico City, a company consisting of a multi-disciplinary team of over 20 designers in the development of projects for major corporations and Fortune 500 companies.

Michel's designs reached national as well as international audiences to include Dubai UAE, Australia, Hong Kong, and Brazil. Michel's expertise in the area of strategic product direction and branding, trends analysis and anthropology lent to his success as Creative director/mentor of 42 designers for DYWorks in Mumbai, India; Creative Director/Consultant at VGC, a top-ranked Indian design firm; and as an AGDA lecturer for postgraduate designers in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Michel's accomplishments in the field of design are exemplified by the plethora of awards received for outstanding work, including Clio Gold awards for packaging design.

Although much of Michel's career revolves around design, he is also a fine artist. He has regularly practiced his hand at sculpture and painting, looking to everything from fashion to folklore as his muse. In 2017 he was involved with the Naples Arts Association’s "Paint the town" mural project in which he was one of the featured artists to paint a mural on 5th avenue, then he made a mural “For the love of art” at the Naples Arts Association headquarter in Naples.

Today, Michel continues to grow, to investigate, and to share. As a natural continuation of his inquisitive mind and love of expression, he has committed himself over the past five years to this daily blog highlighting artists from various countries and mediums of art. This blog brings him joy, curiosity, and genuine satisfaction to get to seek, share, and sometimes meet an artist who is working continuously to change the way we see the world. He is also developing new ways to make art available for everyone that falls under the wide umbrella of  "I made this"

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Michel Bergeron designer

Michel Bergeron sculptor

Moble from "I made this" series (pre-production)

Alvin totem

Untitled #2 totem

Untitled #3 totem

Fridge magnets from "I made this" series where you can make artistic composition ...

... or having a lot of fun (under production)

Address pole from "I made this" series (Under production)

Miekko shoe sculpture

Mirelle shoe sculpture

Susanne shoe sculpture

Gaston

Irma

Berri Lee identity

Rubbermaid hardware identity

Franconia Sculpture Park identity

Parmalat brand refinement

True North Woods identity

Room&Board Catalog as coffee table book

Chambre Immobilière du Gand Montréal brochure

Franconia Fund Raising and Gala invitation

Medtronic 3rd generation heart valve brochure

Parmalat family of product packaging design

True North Woods sample packaging design

Broadway Liquor Outlet private labels design

Bergeron Sirop d'érable packaging design

B Dark packaging design

Petite Douceur packaging design

Burger King Pick'em up packaging design (CLIO gold award)

Colgate Junior tootbrushes packaging design

Class of 1980 (Iowa State University) poster

Qantas Loyalty Program poster

Berri Lee Comic promotional Poster

The Villages Jazz Lovers Club poster

Coca-Cola 20oz closure

NAA Paint the town (Construction site) mural, Naples Fl.