Check out hyper cool French Canadian design collective, Charmant & Courtois

Date
9 December 2014

Recently we’ve all been fawning over a Glaswegian studio called Risotto for their super-fun risograph posters, prints and flyers. To be honest, I never thought we’d find an equivalent over the Atlantic in Montreal. Last week, one of our go-to French guys over in Paris, Raphael Garnier, got in touch to tell us about Charmant & Courtois, a French-Canadian design studio with a penchant for printing and some very good parties to go to.

The guys behind these rather wonderful pieces of print are Alex Blouin, Alexis Coutu-Marion, Mathieu Dionne, Slvain Martet, Florian Petigny and Jules Renaud – held together by founding member – and an illustrator I keep safely tucked away in my own personal favourites folder – Gabrielle Lamontagne, who started Charmant & Courtois back in 2009. From the looks of how many party invitations, flyers, and record label catalogues they’ve made, I bet they’re a pretty cool bunch. If you see any of this printed matter flapping around in the breeze in Montreal, please be sure to grab one for me.

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Mathieu Dionne: Flyer for Morning Fever dance party

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Mathieu Dionne: Flyer for Morning Fever dance party

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Mathieu Dionne: Flyer for Morning Fever dance party

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Florian Petigny: Promo catalogue for booking agency Heavy Trip

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Florian Petigny: Promo catalogue for booking agency Heavy Trip

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Mathieu Dionne: Poster for the album launch of Chocolat

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Florian Petigny: Poster for Heavy Trip’s first anniversary party

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Mathieu Dionne: Flyer promoting a soda launch party

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Mathieu Dionne: Flyer for Morning Fever dance party

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Mathieu Dionne: Flyer for Morning Fever dance party

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Mathieu Dionne: Flyer for Morning Fever dance party

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Alexis Coutu-Marion, Mathieu Dionne and Florian Petigny: Submission for Little Burgundy Magazine Construction Issue

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Florian Petigny: Flyer

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Alex Blouin: Artwork of Babylone’s new album

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Alex Blouin: Artwork of Babylone’s new album

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Alexis Coutu-Marion: Illustrations commissionned by the Fader Magazine for an article on the first jobs musicians had before they played music for a living.

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Alexis Coutu-Marion: Illustrations commissionned by the Fader Magazine for an article on the first jobs musicians had before they played music for a living.

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Liv Siddall

Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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