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Amandine Comte

  • Promotion 2007
  • Training Graphic Design
  • currently works at Lartcommunique
  • position Illustrator
  • location Velaux

When you talk to Amandine Comte, you quickly realise that she has a lucky star! With a passion for drawing, she joined ESMA's MANAA in 2004, with the ambition of becoming an illustrator.

With a passion for drawing, Amandine Comte joined ESMA’s Prépa Design in 2004, with the ambition of becoming an illustrator. She soon realised that computer skills would be a real asset to her career, and so she enrolled on the BTS in Visual Communication (now renamed the Cycle Professionnel Design Graphique Plurimédia).

After graduating in 2007, she began her career as a graphic designer, working for the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Officiers de Sapeurs-Pompiers (2 years) and then for the communications department of the University of Aix-Marseille (4 years). In these two positions, her creativity surprised and amazed, leading the 2 administrative structures to multiply their projects.
Amandine has a lot of fun there, learning her trade, but remains very attached to her real passion, illustration, which she pursues on parallel projects as a self-employed freelancer.

Freelance illustrator

In 2014, the call of the sea became too strong, and Amandine left her job at the University of Aix-Marseille to devote herself to her freelance work. And her choice proved to be a wise one: one of her illustrations of Nelson Mandela was quickly spotted on the internet by the publisher of Le Petit Robert, with whom she collaborated on the cover of the 2015 edition of the dictionary, for which she also created an illustration of the Taj Mahal. Then it was Marionnaud’s turn to fall under the spell of one of her online portraits, and the perfume chain invited her to use the illustration in its “L’Ordonnance Beauté”.

And so it began, with one project following another, each more ambitious than the last: “I never thought I’d make a living from illustration, but I finally did! And my expertise in visual communications makes all the difference.
Today, she is working on a project with L’Oréal, which she can only tell us is an illustration for the packaging of a new product.

An artist in demand

And her diary is full, as she has also been chosen to design the packaging for around fifty products in the Durance brand’s 2016 Christmas collection.
And what’s next? Well, she might be looking abroad. She also hopes to train in motion design, to “continue exploring the field of illustration”.
A lucky star, perhaps, but also the ability to think bigger and further ahead…

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