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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 13/03/2026

Dreaming of new pictorial spaces 💭

Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 06/03/2026

Our hand-painted films for the Noguchi Museum are now live on YouTube! Discover how kids might have enjoyed Noguchi’s unrealized playground designs for NYC. Bon cinéma... youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Noguchi's New York — Animated Playgrounds (2026) - YouTube

Eastend Western presents five animated films entirely hand painted over 1,800 celluloids, inspired by Isamu Noguchi's unrealized playground proposals for the...

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 03/03/2026

🎥 ↑ 🎥 ↓ Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 25/02/2026

It's raining on Noguchi's Contoured Playground. A meditative loop painted on celluloid, and a homage to Hockney taken from our films for the Noguchi Museum. On display until September.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 21/02/2026

Smoking in live action is the equivalent of boil in animation

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 10/02/2026

I'll post more about this project over the coming days/weeks..!

A still from the animations for the Noguchi Museum. A little girl is reading a book within the triangular steps he designed for the United Nations playground.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 10/02/2026

It was truly a dream project. Co-directed with @jackcunningham.bsky.social, we wanted to echo the material richness of Noguchi’s models. To do so, we turned towards traditional animation techniques and painted over 1,800 celluloids.

A picture of layered celluloids for the Noguchi Museum animations. Three kids, looking back at the camera, are standing on the steps of "Play Mountain"

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 10/02/2026

Noguchi's playground designs exist mainly as beautifully cryptic maquettes. Viewers might wonder how kids would have played within such structures. Our animated films explore the question in narrative and abstract ways.

A still from the animation "Riverside Playground" from the exhibition "Noguchi's New York".

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 10/02/2026

Last week, we launched five animations at the Noguchi Museum. If you're in NYC, their new exhibition is on until September and explores Noguchi's relationship with the city, and his rejected playground designs.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 09/02/2026

Still from my film "Colorimetry in Motion" (2013)

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 03/01/2026

Looping film for Loro Piana from 2024

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 19/12/2025

This year, @jackcunningham.bsky.social & myself launched our film, art and design studio Eastend Western and we’ve been so busy since we haven’t had time to share any new work. If you’re in Canada and spot these Wealthsimple ads, we handmade them over the summer in our compact but mighty workshop.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a handcrafted mountain landscape and miniature climbers.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a handcrafted Montreal street with practical lights.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring an Italian beach and miniature figures.

A photograph of a billboard for the new Wealthsimple credit card, featuring a miniature Algonquin national park camping scene.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 14/12/2025

Some of my old drawings lost to time, collected and sent back to me by Season Cheng.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 14/12/2025

Nostalgia for our old studio space

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 09/12/2025

Still can’t believe 16:9 is a nostalgic ratio

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 23/11/2025

The Rest is History repeating that Disney invented animation makes me doubt the accuracy of everything they talk about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPa...

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We Went to Disneyland with Bob Iger

YouTube video by The Rest Is History

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Javier @javier.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Listen to Nicolas and watch that fantastic short. And if the YouTube link doesn’t work in your country, this one might do the trick www.dailymotion.com/video/x9tpkqc

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The Dream of Finishing One’s To-Do List in “Retirement Plan”

Dailymotion video by The New Yorker

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

That is, there is no broad "AI jobs apocalypse," as AI is too unreliable and limited to do jobs that demand accuracy or empathy. But plenty of managers will use it to try to replace human art with cheaper "good enough" AI art. So it does appear that bosses embracing AI are hitting creatives hard.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

‘One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats’ Iris Murdoch

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 02/11/2025

Seasons change, 32 seconds of animation gets made.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 13/10/2025

On the phenomenology of inflatable frog costumes by David Graeber

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 10/10/2025

Big Mari trays, mini Mari trays

A photo of some white paper trays by Enzo Mari

A photo of miniature Enzo Mari paper trays we made

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 08/10/2025

The animator's skills being transfered to furniture/product design has roots in Disney's imagineers, for those of you wondering why you're following this account when all I'm posting is obscure technical things and not cartoons..!

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 08/10/2025

Upcoming construction project is brewing in the studio to make our space more useful

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 04/10/2025

Medecine box design in black MDF

A photo of narrow box in black MDF with finger joints and circles as handles.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 28/09/2025

Well now I have to go rewatch One Battle After Another on the big screen because it’s that good

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Don Hertzfeldt has curated 'Animation Mixtape,' an 85-minute anthology of animated shorts, which premieres at the IFC Center in New York today. We spoke with him about spotlighting standout work and why focused distribution matters for shorts. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/do...

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Don Hertzfeldt’s On The 'Animation Mixtape' Shorts Anthology

Don Hertzfeldt-curated 'Animation Mixtape' premieres at IFC Center tonight, reviving the big-screen experience for short films before touring nationwide.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 27/08/2025

Artists like @nicolasmenard.com will appreciate this.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 27/08/2025

There are many “moods” to be had in Montreal.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 27/08/2025

Look at that capital ‘G’.

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 12/08/2025

Over the moon to announce that my short film Wednesday with Goddard (2016) is part of Don Hertzfeldt’s Animation Mixtape, screening in cinemas across the US and Canada. What’s more: it includes a never-before-seen Bruce Bickford film! Book now — www.inkfilms.com/films/animat...

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ANIMATION MIXTAPE

Curated by Don Hertzfeldt

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 06/08/2025

Speaking of, I was at the British Library browsing "Who's Who in Graphic Art Vol. 2" (Clivo Press, 1982) and found one Québécois (Georges Beaupré) and one Inuit artist (Pitseolak Ashoona). They explain how in Canada, there isn't a large number of great artists born there because it's a young country

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 06/08/2025

NFB logo, star of the show (2018)

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Nicolas Ménard @nicolasmenard.com · 04/08/2025

Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais quand j'ai le mal du pays je retourne souvent à cette entrevue avec Jack Kerouac www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ij8...

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Entrevue en français avec Jack Kerouac en 1967

YouTube video by Radio-Canada Archives

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