Louis-Philippe Riel

Current

• Senior Designer at Critical Mass

Past

• Freelance Art Director at lpriel.com
• Designer at Sid Lee
• Designer at CloudRaker

• Designer at Infivia

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Education

• Collège Maisonneuve
• College Saint-Louis

Connections

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Industry

Design

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Summary

Louis-Philippe Riel is a freelance art director living in Montreal. He began his professional career as a designer and flash developer for local and national clients at Infivia, and later on CloudRaker. He then moved on to Diesel Marketing, now Sid Lee, an integrated advertising agency, where his responsibilities increased with international clients such as Red Bull, Cirque du Soleil, Suzuki and adidas. While at Sid Lee, Louis-Philippe excelled as a designer and art director, earning numerous awards such as a Créa, Boomerangs, and FWAs, as well as being featured in the book “Guidelines for Online Success” by Rob Ford.

Expert knowledge:
Photoshop
Illustrator

Advanced knowledge:
Acrobat
AfterEffects
Dreamweaver
Flash
InDesign
Video & Sound Editing Softwares

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Specialties:

• Graphic Design
• Art Direction
• Concept
• Animation
• Interface design
• Illustration

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Experience

• Senior Designer

  Critical Mass

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  Working on Gucci.

• Freelance Art Director

  lpriel.com

  (Design industry)

  October 2008 — September 2009 (1 year )

  Clients:
  - Akufen (Montreal)
  - BBDO (Montreal)
  - Bluesponge (Montreal)
  - Bob (Montreal)
  - CloudRaker (Montreal)
  - Ekorce (Montreal)
  - LeSite (Montreal)
  - Pixel Circus (Montreal)
  - Remarquable Communications (Montreal)
  - Revolver3 (Montreal)
  - Sid Lee (Montreal)
  - Toxa (Montreal)
  - FullSIX (New York)
  - Jackson Laycock (New York)
  - StreetPeeper (New York)

• Designer

  Sid Lee

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  June 2005 — October 2008 (3 years 5 months)

  Art Direction, design and flash animation on projects for Adidas, Aeroplan, Belair, Canada Post, Montreal Casino, Cirque du Soleil, Future Shop, Gaz Metro, Loto-Québec, MGM, Molson, Playgrounds, Red Bull, Réno Dépôt, SAQ, Schering, Sobeys, Solo Mobile, Suzuki and Montreal Tourism.

• Designer

  CloudRaker

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  January 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 5 months)

  Design, flash animation and integration on projects for Boutique Jacob, Bell, Chamberland Hodge, Microcell and Contramax

• Designer

  Infivia

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Design industry)

  June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)

  Design and integration on projects for Les Karavaniers, INIS and Informaction Films

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Education

• Collège Maisonneuve

  Multimédia 2000 — 2003

• College Saint-Louis

Additional Information

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Interests:

design, motion graphics, music, technology, fashion, photography, illustration, street art

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Groups:

•    INFOPRESSE
•    FWA

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Honors:

2009
FWA Site Of The Day: Adidas Originals SS '09
Grand Cré 2009: Adidas Originals SS '09
Créa Campagne en Ligne: Adidas Originals SS '09
Nominated for Webby Awards (Fashion): Adidas Originals SS '09
One Show Interactive Finalist: Adidas Originals SS '09

2008
Créa Integrated Campaign: Adidas Your World
Featured in "Guidelines for Online Success" by Rob Ford: Suzuki Wolfboys

2007
FWA Site Of The Day: Adidas Your World
Boomerang Site promotionnel: Adidas Your World
BACTA Exploration of Digital Media: Britswanted.com

2006
FWA Site Of The Day: Suzuki Wolfboys

2004
Boomerang Site promotionnel B2C: Boutique Jacob
Boomerang Site catalogue: Boutique Jacob

2003
Boomerang Projet Étudiant: Compagnie F

Louis-Philippe Riel’s Contact Settings

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