Webdesign International Festival 2010 in Limoges scores across the board
This year's Webdesign International Festival (WIF 2010) was held in Limoges (central France) in early June and built on its success of earlier years. The winner of the international web-design competition was Bobbie Team of France.
- (1888PressRelease) August 27, 2010 - "I'm thinking of you" - such was the theme of this top-level, 24-hour, non-stop digital-creation contest, bringing together 35 leading web-design teams from across the world between 3 and 5 June 2010 in Limoges (in central France).
WIF 2010 will have been marked by creativity, surprises, as well as many sudden and exciting twists, confirming the festival's importance as the international event of choice for digital-content and interface-design professionals.
The winners' list unveiled by the international jury met all expectations. Following a closing ceremony placed under the sign of the digital revolution, Rémy Bourganel, President of Honour of WIF 2010, Design Director, Head of User Experience at innovative company Orange Vallée, and co-Director of ENSAD's mobile digital ID search laboratory, announced the winner: France's Bobbie Team came first, winning €15,000, followed by runners-up Vitrolaspin of Brazil and the Japan team.
The Great Hopes Prize, rewarding a student group, went to Argentina's Emedele. The Originality Prize was awarded to Kaptein Internett of Norway. New in 2010, the Public's Prize, via a web application allowing the public to take part and vote, rewarded Italy's Ochodurando.
In all, over €75,000 in cash prizes and equipment went to reward the best teams at WIF 2010.
All entries made for the webjam can be viewed at: www.webdesign-festival.com/2010/-wif2010-winners-
WIF, an international get-together
This year, participants from over 40 countries took part in the pre-selection phases. On the occasion of the 2010 festival, nine countries joined the franchised territories network. Local pre-selections were held in the various countries by a range of interested parties such as web agencies Dogstudio in Belgium and Nel Segno dell'8 in Italy; universities, including Tama Art University in Japan, Educacion IT in Argentina, and IGM in Norway; city authorities, including Obninsk in Russia and Nabeul in Tunisia; and, last but not least, the Filigrane Agency, which is an expert in Franco-Chinese relations. As a result of this international team effort, WIF was able to extend its community across all five continents.
WIF Demos goes for Pawns and Pirates of Editions Volumiques
The first WIF Demos gave eight start-ups an opportunity to present technological, marketing or common-use innovations to a demanding audience made up of investors, venture-capital players as well as potential buyers.
A jury - made up of Orange Vallée, Groupama Innovation, France Angels, Legrand and Groupe Réflect - voted for the most innovative 2010 demonstration.
Les Editions Volumiques, sponsored by Etienne Mineur, attracted substantial support with their two interactive games - 'Pawn' and 'Pirates'. Fully in keeping with the spirit of the Editions Volumiques' studio, both games combine the fun of a board game with the interaction enjoyed via modern interfaces.
WIF Congress: Top-level conferences reviewing sector trends and hot topics
The WIF Congress, with conferences and workshops organised by the Elopsys competitiveness cluster, gathered more than 400 participants over the three-day period.
The HTLM5 workshop conducted by Peter Lubbers of Kaazing was highly successful.
In line with their respective interests, viewers were able to find out more about interface prototyping with Fred Beecher of Evantage Consulting, or about new developments from CSS with Dave Shea.
Participants were also able to attend a much-appreciated presentation by Stéphane Hugon, a sociologist and researcher at the CEAQ institute of Paris University (Sorbonne), in which he spoke about societal change and technological innovation.
On the topic of The Body and the Interface, Etienne Mineur of Studio Incandescence captivated the audience with a presentation on "the return to the tangible", as a core value and a user experience, throughout the media sector.
Regarding marketing and business models, Manuel Diaz of Groupe Reflect presented an introduction to attention marketing, which sets the consumer at the heart of the process. Also, Jean-Noël Portugal of Intuneo made a clear and concise presentation during which he took stock of web business models and gave highly informed advice to project innovators.
Benoît Drouillat, President of Designers Interactifs, and Olivier Marcellin of Textualis, expanded on information design and the online press - topics that were further explored during a round table conducted by Sébastien Genvo, a lecturer and researcher at Limoges University.
The WIF's President of Honour, Remy Bourganel from Orange Vallée, ended the series of conferences with a presentation on the mobile-communication models that are taking shape in the wake of the convergence of internet technologies with telecommunications platforms.
There were also numerous other conferences, due to be made available shortly by podcast on the WIF website.
WIF fact sheet
-Nine organising countries, with a single finale held in Limoges (France)
-An online community of close to 3,000 professional web designers
-Over 15,000 visitors from 80 territories and 65,000 pages accessed on the WIF website
-The real-time web really takes off, ranking WIF in third position among French events of its kind (with a volume of traffic reaching more than 10,000 tweets during the closing evening session)
-WIF generates 50 live broadcasts on the website of television channel France3 Limousin Poitou-Charentes (www.france3.fr)
-Close to 250 traffic sources listed
-Over a three-day period, more than 300 emails sent and 17 publications on the WIF Facebook page
About Limousin Expansion
The Webdesign International Festival (WIF) is held in Limoges, in central France. It is devoted to international competitions, lectures, debates, demonstrations, exhibitions and meetings focusing on interactive, web-based design.
The aim of WIF is to stimulate collaboration between web designers from varied professional, cultural and geographical horizons. The emphasis is on web creation with competitions, experiments and multimedia installations, business meetings, conferences, events for the general public and direct video broadcasts. The initiative was launched to promote new technologies in the heart of the Limousin region of Central France.
Limousin Expansion is the regional agency for development and innovation in Limousin, and it is one of the main backers of the WIF.
For further information about Limousin Expansion, please go to: http://www.limousin-expansion.fr/
For further information about the festival, please go to: www.webdesign-festival.com
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