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Biography
Michel Dallaire was born in Paris, France
in 1942. As early as 1967, he was already
making a mark as an independent thinker
and freelance designer. When opened
his own design firm, it charted a rapid
path to professional and commercial
success.
His fields of activity are very varied
and encompass in particular designing
useful items, industrial and institutional
products, site furniture and transportation
equipment. Michel Dallaire is currently
senior design advisor to Air Canada
for all its cabin equipment for both
its domestic and international fleets.
He has just recently completed the design
for all the public furniture in the
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec.
Since 1998, Michel Dallaire has been
Associate Professor at Université
de Montréal's School of Industrial
Design and with the Faculty of Environmental
Design at the University of Calgary.
From 1988 to 1998, he was a regular
lecturer at the Département Supérieur
de Design Industriel de l’École
cantonale d’art de Lausanne, in
Switzerland. In 1993 and 1998, he hosted
seminars at the École Nationale
Supérieure de Création
Industrielle de Paris.
Education
Michel Dallaire studied at Montreal's
Institut des arts appliqués from
1959 to 1963 and at the Konstfackskolan,
Stockholm's Graduate School of Industrial
Design, from 1964 to 1965. He then specialized
in design management at the École
des Hautes Études Commerciales
de Montréal in 1972 and in polymer
transformation at the National Research
Centre's Industrial Materials Institute
in Montreal in 1981.
Awards
2003, Sam Lapointe Lifetime Achievement
Award, Institute of Design Montréal
2003, Industrial Design Award and two
Gold Medals at the 31st International
Exhibition of Inventions and New Technologies,
Geneva, Switzerland
2000, Institute of Design Montréal
Grand Prize
1999, Grand Prize and two Gold Medals
at the 27th International Exhibition
of Inventions and New Technologies,
Geneva, Switzerland
1998, Industrial Design Award and one
Gold Medal at the 26th International
Exhibition of Inventions and New Technologies,
Geneva, Switzerland
1998, Best Product Award / Juvenile
Products Manufacturers Associations,
Dallas, Texas
1994, Bâtisseur de la Revue Commerce,
November 1994, Association des diplômés
de l’École des Hautes Études
Commerciales de Montréal
1991, Prix Paul-Émile Borduas,
the highest award granted by the Government
of Quebec in the visual arts
1988, Industrial Design Award, Institute
of Business Design, New York, USA
1987, SAD de Bronze / Société
des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris,
France
1986, Palme d’Or in Industrial
Design / Canada Award for Business Excellence
Web site: www.dallairedesign.com
E-mail: michel@dallairedesign.com
Memberships: RCA
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