OFFF Paris 2010

The powers that be at Pirata were nice enough to take a few of us along to OFFF in Paris. I think it’s fair to say a great time was had by all. Both in and out of the actual festival. Lots of steak, crocque monsieurs and madames, one or two drinks and lots and lots of walking. Sadly I also had the worst Mojito i have ever ever had in my life. How someone could get that so wrong i’m not sure.
Anyway I just wanted to big up the talks i found interesting at OFFF, because if i’m honest some of the big players seemed to have either left their enthusiasm at home, felt it was the time and place for a sales pitch, or played their showreels rather than adding anything new to what i could have already found out about on their website, which was a shame.
So the good stuff in my opinion was:
Dvein – Really really impressed with these guys from Barcelona. They are doing some gorgeous motion graphics work at the moment. And showed us behind the scenes of how they get to that finished piece.

Hoss Clifford – taked about his experience and what he learnt in this time. Was funny and really interesting. And he made some great points, and inspired me to try doing a project in a  day.

Non-Format – Kjell Ekhorn probably gave the most entertaining and interesting talk of the whole three days. A showcase of Non-formats work from the begining up to present and how their career and most peopels fall into an intriging “wheel of style” including wanting success, gaining recognition, become an inspiration, and then losing it, and back round again. It was better than how i just described.

Projector Inc – this is man behind the great Uniqlo campaigns of late.

Firstborn – they talked about the benefit of prototyping and making tools to get a site perfect. Was really interesting to see development work go into more than just the site directly. In the end they make a site and an array of small applications for internal use to allow flexible customisation and testing and much more. Very clever.

Goodby Silverstein & Partners – was interesting to be talked through a few of their biggest campaigns. Made you appreciate just how big scale or well thought out they were. Especially the Summit on the Summit for HP which includes “the worlds tallest banner” and a site the same size as the mountain.

And a little extra treat – here are some poorly taken photos of my adventure