
Artist, illustrator, blogger, traveler
Montreal, Canada Area

Artist, illustrator, blogger, traveler
Montreal, Canada Area
2009: Listed as one of the 10 most influencials bloggers in Québec, Radio-Canada, Feb. 2009
2008: Nominated as one of Canada’s Most Influential Women in Social Media.
About Meïdia:
We strongly believe that helping people communicate with each other online is more important than trying to sell them something.
Our goal as individuals is to contribute to the development and evolution of the internet, as this medium is in our opinion, one of the most exciting communication tool of our era.
Clients: Le Cirque du Soleil, Ubisoft, Radio Canada, Musique Plus, Culture Québec, Tellabs, Article Studio, P45, Maison d’édition de La courte échelle, Astral Média Interactif, Passeport Santé.
Latest work:
Epizzod.com, online community for Éditions de la Courte Échelle;
National Film Board of Canada (NFB) CitizenShift and Parole Citoyenne's communities;
Online VoxPop video quizz for Musique Plus;
Radio Energie's webcam video community;
consulting and developement for Ubisoft Montreal;
event blogging for Le Cirque du Soleil and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation; consulting for Tellabs Solutions Chicago.
About Marie-Chantale Turgeon:
Artist and founder of meïdia, she’s also well known as an active blogger and podcaster.
As an extremely creative person, ideas seem to get out of her head at a speed anyone would find hard to follow. She is known to be a trend observer in the development of the ever expanding medium that is the internet, not without her artistic point of view, which makes her a part of this new indie subculture.
meïdia is a studio specialized in creating outstanding products, concepts and strategy using new web technologies (blogs, video blogs, podcasting, digital arts, new media events, social softwares).
(Arts and Crafts industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Une bouffée d'air frais dans l'univers des créatrices, Creacamp c'est un événement où des conférencières de tout domaine sont choisies pour venir présenter leur travail dans le but de stimuler et d'inspirer les gens réunis. Échanges colorés et rencontres stimulantes sont assurés!
(Online Media industry)
April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)
Head & Creative director
http://www.meidia.ca/?l=en
(Arts and Crafts industry)
January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)
Inspired art, illustration and hand lettering. My work focuses on inspirational art, creativity and growth, and has appeared in the Huffingtonpost, Elle, Glamour and Spin Magazine.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 10 months)
Montreal, Canada
Clients: BNQ, Hydro-Québec
Portfolio available at www.mcturgeon.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2000 — May 2002 (2 years 5 months)
Hamburg, Germany
Clients: Universal Records, Deutsche Grammophon, edel Records
Portfolio available at www.mcturgeon.com
(Online Media industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years )
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)
June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)
Montreal, Canada
Clients: Lands End, JC Penney, Diesel, Levis
(Online Media industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
blogging, music, art, feminism, vegetarism, environment, communications, inspiration art, creativity, growth, books, popular culture, street blogger culture, new medias, blogs, social softwares, podcasts, podcasting, new web technologies, videoblogs, vlog, web 2.0
Creacamp
2008:
Canada's most influential people in Social Media, Semi-finalist.
2007:
IETM
Journée Magazine
Journal Le Soleil
Infopresse - Panel on web 2.0
Bourse Rideau - Panel
2006:
Parole Citoyenne - Panel
ADISQ - Panel
Radio-Canada, SimonDurivage.com - TV
Radio-Canada, Le point - TV
2005:
Cirque du Soleil blogger - Text, video, pictures, video and audio blogging
Canal Vox, Esprit libre - TV December
TVA, L'Explorateur Urbain - TV November
CBC Sounds like Canada - Radio November
La Presse - Print
Elle Canada - Print
Urbania #10 - Print
Télé Québec, Méchant Contraste - TV
Journal Voir - Print
The Gazette - Print
Zundfunk radio - Radio
Spin Magazine - Print
Mutek 2005 - Panel
Ztélé - TV
TVA, news report - TV