Alto Design

Founded in Montreal in 1986 by industrial designer Mario Gagnon, Alto Design has become one of Quebec’s reference product development firms. Its teams cover strategy, industrial design, mechanical engineering, prototyping, interaction design, ecodesign and project management, so a project can stay inside one house from first brief to production.

The client list reaches into medical devices, consumer products, industrial equipment and transport, with published work for Cascades, Keurig, Premier Tech and Genepoc. In 2015 ownership passed to Patrick Mainville, Richard Paré and Marc-André Coutu, and Mélody Sue Myette and Manuel Léveillé later joined as partners — a succession the firm presents as rare in its field.