WIF 2010 - webdesign international festival - France

Between tradition and modernity, press and more generally information is online today at a crossroad. How, at a time when information is virtualized, can we preserve and translate the legacy that comes from paper to screen? How to incorporate the rich media that make up our daily lives on the Web? Should we preserve this heritage and this story, or alternatively, get away and renew it? That’s what we invite you to discover in this conference.
After an introductory section describing the evolution of our access to information and its presence of the web, Benoit Drouillat and Olivier Marcellin will seek, through the study of various specific cases, the new practices for presenting information.
Whether it’s in the context of watching, composing or distributing the information, or how readers approach and interact with the displayed information, the way we consult and read the information are new variables that come into account in our consideration. Through a very interesting retrospective evolutionary presentation, you can now understand what were the legacies of the paper, the successes and failures of the integration of this support on the new digital media.
From this will come out best practices and concepts to be adopted to exploit the digital medium for communicating information, and a better understanding of the new trends and developments of tomorrow in terms of support and dissemination of information.

Focus on Benoît Drouillat:

Benoît Drouillat est designer interactif et architecte de l’information indépendant. Il travaille sur des projets à forte vocation éditoriale. Il enseigne le design d’interface à l’Université de Limoges et au sein de Vocation Graphique ESANA. Avec Nicole Pignier, il a publié 2 ouvrages, Penser le webdesign (2004) et Le Webdesign, sociale expérience des interfaces web (2008). Il a fondé en 2006 la 1ère association professionnelle des métiers du design numérique, *designers interactifs*. Il est également investi au sein de l’APCI (Agence pour la promotion de la Création Industrielle) et de l’AFD (Alliance Française des Designers).

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Focus on Olivier Marcellin :

Olivier Marcellin received his higher diploma of applied arts specialised type design from École supérieure Estienne, Paris. He is co-author of the book “Lisibilité des sites web. Des choix typographiques au design d’information”, which was published in November 2009 by Eyrolles. In 2008, he founded the Textualis information design studio and has carried out research for functional design of digital content. He has regularly contributed to university courses.