WIF - Webdesign International Festival

About

Within 3 years, WIF (Webdesign International Festival) stood out as the main event for Webdesign enthusiasts; whether they are professionals or amateurs. This international festival is an occasion for revealing talents.
Not less than 40 teams made up of the best webdesigners in the world brought together in the heart of Limousin to have a 24hours of non-stop competition.

On top of the competition, the WIF has the ambition to be the international meeting point of the interactive design.
The wif purpose is to facilitate meetings and exchanges between the participants through:

Conferences on innovation in Webdesign and interactive design
Meetings with professionals, digital agency, clients, software publishers / producers and well known brand of the computing industry
VIP party of networking around the design.

Today, WIF represents the passion and the commitment of the Limousin to support, acknowledge and promote the interactive design by supporting the innovation, its recognition and its development in France and worldwide.

What’s new ?

This new edition will take place from April 17th to April 19th in Limousin Region in the town of Limoges, innovation place as regards interactive design via its e-Design Excellence Pole. In order to show its involvement, WIF could become an annual event. It will welcome in April 2008, the 150 best world numerical designers for the great finale.
Numerous partners wish to involve in WIF adventure and study how they can give their support and knowledge for this new competition. As soon as the agreements will be signed, information will be on line.

The international pre-selections of WIF 2008, unlike the others editions, will be done simultaneously on line on January 18th, 2008. All the participants will compete all together the same day on unique subject.
This will be a first stage before the live competition.

The results and the finalist selection will be announced on January 30th, 2008. The selected participants will be invited in Limoges for the Finale in April 2008.
Come to confront your talent with best Webdesigners of the world !

WIF: better and better

In 2006 WIF represents :

8 516 visitors on the site
1 470 connections in video live on the website for 447 hours of listening
Up to 230 simultaneous connections
130 000 pages seen on the website during 3 days
14 different nationalities
300 meters of cable network
Prestigious leaders : Joshua Davis et Molly Holzschlag, figureheads of the interactive design
An exceptional reward : a World tour to meet the biggest international designers.

About the Region Limousin

The Limousin, territory of Excellence in France.

From food processing industry to ceramics, from wood industry to photonic, from electronic to electrical equipment low tension, Limousin region deploys a dynamic and successful economic fabric.
The policy of support, opening and welcoming allowed Limousin to become in few years one of the two regions the most attractive in France for the 20-30 years. It has also permit to facilitate the foreign investments (44% of the industrial workforce are occupied by foreign companies)and to hold leaders of the world economy: Legrand, Photonis, The american Borgwarner, International Paper.

Since 1997, Limousin launched an innovation policy by becoming very active in the new Information Technologies :

Construction of more than 650 miles of fibreoptic
Certification of 2 poles of competitiveness whose Limousin is the leader : Elopsys ( microwaves, photonic and secure networks) and the European Pole of Ceramics, and also 4 others inter-regional poles: (ViaMéca, Cancer Bio-Health, Innoviandes, Sciences and systems of the electric energy).
The University of Limoges became one of the Excellence pole of the region with more than 1100 french and foreign researchers and gets organized around 4 research institutes all dedicated to the Science.

Thanks to all these efforts and investments, Limousin tends to become one of the nerve centers of the French economy, in particular for SME’s (4th better regional rate of survival of the companies at 5 years with 58% in 2005) while offering a unique quality of life.
Limousin is regularly classified at the 1st place for the quality of its environment offered to the inhabitants .

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WIF is also the promotion of the e-Design Pole of excellence and of the Limousin territory. It is financed by funds of the Regional Council of the Limousin, European Commission (FEDER), city of Limoges and by the participations of national and international companies. You want to communicate in a unique and original way, discover 7 reasons for becoming partner below.

Endowed with a visibility and with a communication of international scale, WIF is closely connected with the creative community. By becoming partner, you will benefit, according to your involvement, from a community dynamic without equivalent.

7 reasons to become partners:

Notoriety : In 2004 BBC World News covers the WIF, in 2006 chain LCI devotes an broadcast dedicated to the festival. The national and international press review offers an excellent visibility to our partners.
The brand image : you will be associated with an event which conveys strong creative values (excellence, team spirit and collaboration, opening, innovation...)
Your product will be bring out among creative, decision makers and person of influence
International shine :to join the Festival and the on-line pre-selections is to acquire a visibility on all the participating countries, in a multi-cultural context
A spirit : an international festival taking place in Limoges which gathers for the final the 150 best world numerical designers
Contacts : you will reach a network of decision makers made up of advertisers, agencies, and designers.
Communication : by inviting your collaborators and/or your partners to the WIF, you show them your involvement in supporting innovation and creation, and federate your contacts around the event.

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Come to observe, compare and discover the new talents of the webdesign coming from the entire world during this competition of 24h non-stop (by team from 2 to 4 persons).

A unique opportunity, in Limoges, in Limousin region, but also in France and Europe to explore the new tendencies, question the experts, discover the new universes which make interactive design a real vector of growth and communication.

You will find in this section the files, official statements and press review of the previous years.

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You feel like confront to other teams? See what you are able to produce in record time? Develop your network...

WIF is intended for an enthusiast and professional public of interactive creation.
Freelance, agencies, media and advertisers come to get new tendencies and solutions there and to spot the rising talent..

Whether you are art directors, designers, developers, creators, artists, webmasters : registration NOW !

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You wish to speak on one of the aspects of the interactive design because this is an issue you feel very strongly about

Take an active part in the exchanges on the last tendencies, the creative process, the trade, the technical innovation... The WIF is a privileged place where you can meet major actors of the industry.