An illustration of a dark brown dress shoe against a bright red background. Small, dark human legs and feet emerge from the sole of the shoe, acting as a heel.

You can see why Quebec-based illustrator Sébastien Thibault is so in demand

Words: Rob Alderson
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Date: 22 April 2013; Work
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We seemed to have stumbled across a fair few excellent Canadian illustrators recently and Quebec-based Sébastien Thibault is the latest to catch our eye. His strong portfolio includes work for the likes of TIME, The Boston Globe and Rolling Stone Italy who have all appreciated his talents for taking sometimes quite abstract or convoluted concepts and rendering them with wit and clarity. He’s particularly adept at tackling themes around technology and our shifting relationship with it, although he also does a nice line in more weird and wonderful subjects too, such as his spanner-weilding lobster.

An illustration of a bright pink lobster against a white background. Its claws are replaced by black and pink pipe wrenches. — Above
Sébastien Thibault: Lobster

An illustration of a person’s leg and foot against a black background. They wear a red skirt, fishnet tights, and a red high-heeled shoe, while a hand with red nails reaches towards them. — Above
Sébastien Thibault: Light

An illustration of a computer mouse shaped like a Guy Fawkes mask against a red background. A large hand reaches from the left to pick up a tiny person, while a black cable curls around the frame. — Above
Sébastien Thibault:

An illustration of a purple silhouette of a head against a light blue background. A black and white whale is positioned across the middle of the head, with a small white anchor icon on the neck. — Above
Sébastien Thibault: Ecologist

An illustration of a person in a white period shirt holding a skull, reminiscent of Hamlet. Several blue Twitter bird logos fly around them against a dark grey background. — Above
Sébastien Thibault: Such Tweet Sorrow for Pacific Standard

An illustration of a figure performing on a red stage, framed by black curtains. Blue signal waves radiate from the performer towards a row of smartphones in the foreground. The screens display a Twitter bird icon and the phrase “2B OR NOT 2B”. — Above
Sébastien Thibault: Such Tweet Sorrow for Pacific Standard

An illustration of a Newton’s cradle against a bright orange background. The leftmost ball is a black bomb with a lit fuse, swinging back to strike the others. — Above
Sébastien Thibault: Time Bomb

An illustration of the evolution of man in dark red silhouettes against a bright red background. The sequence ends with a person in a suit being carried by another figure. — Above
Sébastien Thibault: Modern Man

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www.sebastienthibault.com

About the Author

Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

You can see why Quebec-based illustrator Sébastien Thibault is so in demand

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