WIF 2010 - webdesign international festival - France

“Through a sensitive, original and poetic interface, propose an interactive application allowing to share one’s memories.” This was the subject held in suspense hundreds of competitors in the screening of WIF! Find out the people who has the difficult task of selecting the 19 finalist teams…

Interactive Designer, researcher at the center of semiotic research, artistic director, project manager digital design, developer and passionate Geek

Benoît Drouillat

He is a freelance interactive designer and an information architect. He works on projects with a strong editorial. He teaches interface design at the University of Limoges and at Vocation Graphique ESANA. He has published 2 books with Nicole Pignier, Penser le webdesign (2004) et Le Webdesign, sociale expérience des interfaces web (2008). He is the founding president of *designers interactifs* (2006), an organization to advance the interaction design profession. He is also invested in APCI (Agence pour la promotion de la Création Industrielle) and AFD (Alliance Française des Designers).

Nicole PIGNIER

She is professor at the University of Limoges where she teaches semiotic of communication strategies multimedia. She is in charge of the Professional degree Webdesign sensory. Researcher in the Center of Semiotic Researches at the University of Limoges, N. Pignier has published Penser le webdesign, modèles sémiotiques pour les projets multimédias, Sociale experience du webdesign in collaboration with Benoît Drouillat and De l’expérience multimédia. Usages et pratiques culturels.

Étienne Mineur

Graduated from Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs de Paris (ENSAD) in 1992. Co-founder and artistic director of Index Plus in 1992, multimedia and CD-Rom editing company, (became Wanadoo edition). Independant artistic director for many agencies like Hyptique (multimedia – Paris) and Nofrontiere (graphics, design, architecture – Vienna). Co-founder and artistic director of Incandescence, creation studio, in 2001.

Collaborates since 7 years with Japanese company Issey Miyake in the design and production of www.isseymiyake.com website as well as many other of their editing projects.

Etienne has also a teaching activity in different schools, LES GOBELINS, art deco in Strasbourg,  Member of the AGI since 2000 (International Graphic Alliance). In Chaumont, he was the exhibition auditor of the Code Source.

Claire Corbel

Project  Manager in Digital Design and secured networks at Elopsys cluster.

Gifted with a master degree in computer science, she has been working in the field of digital design since 2006, as the Pole Excellence e-Design manager, a center dedicated to digital design and that combines training, accompanying of business creators and research projects. She’s also in charge of R&D projects, working with multimedia companies and R&D laboratories (like Xlim and CeRes ). She’s in charge of conferences & workshops for the Wif 2010.

Laurent Laroudie

He is co-fundator of the kurtzdev society. He is in charge of integration and development. Sony, Dassault, Toyota have already ask for his skills. He is also a teacher in the webdesign professional licence in Limoges.

Manuel Dorne (Korben)

He is totally addict to informatics. Geek, passionate he shares every day , his world web vision and high tech on his blog: Korben.info. In July, he launched free.korben.info, the first « wiki » which deals with private life and freedom expression on the web! Furthermore, he often participates to podcasts and events about the new technologies.

Olivier Malnuit

He is chief redactor in the TECHNIKART magazine. He took art at the development of the support. He started his career in an interactive magazine owned by Ariel WIZMAN in 1996 (at the time of Netscape and Palm Pilot). Then, he worked for CANAL + (cyber culture…) and the big project was to create a channel which is the ancestor of GAME channel. He was honored to cover the WIF during the last edition and he is a big fan of LIMOUSIN!