BiographyIt was in 1999 that Pascal Taillard graduated as designer, multimedia director, with a particular interest for sounds, at Les Gobelins school in Paris. He becomes project manager in a communication agency and makes CD-ROMs – digital disks – for the well-known international organization “La Francophonie” as part of the promotion of French-speaking museums around the world such as the Boubou-Hama National Museum in Niamey and the Archaeological and Ethnological National Museum of… Show more BiographyIt was in 1999 that Pascal Taillard graduated as designer, multimedia director, with a particular interest for sounds, at Les Gobelins school in Paris. He becomes project manager in a communication agency and makes CD-ROMs – digital disks – for the well-known international organization “La Francophonie” as part of the promotion of French-speaking museums around the world such as the Boubou-Hama National Museum in Niamey and the Archaeological and Ethnological National Museum of Bamako. In 2000, he joined the company France Telecom in the multimedia and services division; within Wanadoo Portals. In addition to this, he takes part in the development of the new redesign of the web portal and participates in the main events of both the Wanadoo.fr and Voila.fr websites. A couple of years later – Pascal joined Orange where he works in different fields; multimedia applications & Richmedia for 3G / Edge mobile networks, graphic interfaces and ergonomics: Personal radios, Videos / LiveTV … He participates in the design of the Orange World Mobile portal, develops the generic multi-service charter (OML and multi publication), the vocal and sound charter, mainly designing the musical, vocal aspects and layouts of Orange vocal services. 2005 is an exciting year where Pascal joined Explocentre, the Orange Group’s innovation division, and creates the Sound Design department. In 2010, he joined the Design and Usability division (D & U) within the Orange Labs label of the Technocentre where he defines the principles and fundamentals to the Orange brand’s sonification as part of the Orange User Interface program. Today, he leads the sound design entity at XDLab (eXperience Design Lab), which is the brand new integrated design and research center of the Orange group. XDLab brings together the social sciences and Design in the service of innovation and brand identity. Show less