Jean-louis Frechin

Jean-Louis Frechin is a DPLG architect and a graduate of the ENSCI_Les Ateliers. In 1989 he left France to work at the INESC, a computer research institute in Lisbon. There he discovered the fertility of drawing together design and computer science. On his return to Paris, he set up a global design Studio , handling many industrial and cultural projects. In 1995, he joined the publishers Montparnasse Multimedia to take part in the adventure of producing quality multimedia titles about education and culture. His work is always based on the idea of global design and aims at making an intrinsic link between content, interactive design and technology – at creating meaning. Many of his creations have won prizes: notably series like « Les petits débrouillards (Smart Kids) », « La Terre merveilleuse », « Aviation, a XX entry Epic », « Le Louvre, Collections et Palais », etc... In 2001 he set up NoDesign, with Uros Petrevski, a digital design office specializing in creation, innovation and strategic thinking for information technologies and interactions in industrial and cultural projects. Jean Louis is recognized as a front-runner in digital design, he is also a consultant for firms in new fields: innovation by design, advanced technologies, innovation strategy. Founder, researcher and head of the Digital design studio at the ENSCI / les Ateliers in Paris in 1998, it is there that he passes on his experience, culture, insatiable curiosity and ‘project’ approach. For him, design is a state, a prism for understanding and questioning the world. New challenges, new territories, attempting to enlarge the ‘scope of what is possible’ and ‘desirable’, without losing the basic values of design; meaning, simplicity, emotion, and above all human endeavour. Carte Blanche du Via 2008 Grants Prix du Musée des Arts Decoratifs : WallpaperLAb 2010 Collection du Musée National d’Art Moderne de Paris- Collection Design Collection du Musée du cycle de Saint Etienne