A very rich programme of sessions at Viscom Paris !

This programme is updated on a daily basis

Wide format digital printing

  • Large format digital printing and sustainable development (news, experiences and views on the transformations to come).
    Focussing on the current situation as “large format printers” (silkscreen etc) aim at a sustainable development approach. Current best practice in terms of eco-design and eco- printing (processes and materials, energy economy, waste management), social responsibility, return on investment, communication issues linked to these approaches, warnings and considerations regarding greenwashing…

  • Large format and urban regeneration: what is the market, what are the applications, who is involved
    Is this medium reserved only for large corporations and buyers? Beyond visual communication, can large format be put to use at the service of urban renovation ( large projects, transport infrastructure development…)? City centres are being transformed….What can be done to minimise the visual nuisance of the works?
    Large format visual communication is a truly professional discipline ( urban planners, architects, communication agencies, printers, building professionals…and advertisers, community groups) How can they all work together?
  • Signage

  • TLPE (Outdoor advertising tax) : challenges and risks for the visual communications sector.
    Signage categories and their usage (signs, pre-signs, promotion), the rate card, legal aspects, role of municipal councils etc Perspective on a European benchmark


  • Disabled signs
    Legislation, current techniques and uses, and economical prospects

  • Digital signage, dynamic signage

  • Dynamic signage, a stand alone medium, complementary function, a “promising” market?
    - A reference point now allows advertising agencies to consider digital as a stand alone medium, which is therefore quantifiable and able to be included in the advertising media plans. DIGIMETRIE, CSA market research November 2009.

    - A professional discipline, with complementary functions, a value chain: manufacturers of screens (LED, LCD, Plasma), integrators (software), content providers.

    - A point regarding the growing penetration of the dynamic audiovisual communication market in the public and private sector.


  • Indoor or outdoor large format video screens: why is France lagging behind? (and how can it make up for lost time?)
    - What is the mood amongst the buyers, what are their limits?
    - Outdoor advertising tax: risks and pressures
    - The European benchmark,
    - OUTDOOR Media has recently installed a new LED screen of 12 sq. metres. Mounted on an 8 metre high metal stand, the screen, in the shape of a flag, has a resolution of 368 x 128 pixels with a real pitch of 16mm.
    - LED signage. Pitch up to 4 mm. Focus on technology


  • Digital Media : from the screen to the “multisensory” interface
    Digital media projects are today evolving to give greater interactivity with the client, an enriched “client experience”. This leads to a diversification with the screen: touch screens, RFID ( to tag a product and get technical information on screen), sound, olfactory distributor… a range of technologies with impact on the end user.
    A point about technologies and current application-update on the French market.
  • Decoration & design

  • Adhesives at the heart of commercial architecture
    - Importance of a global concept ( study required into relationship between lighting and adhesives, adhesives and medium etc)
    - A market which is opening up: an increase in the power of adhesives in decoration and visual communication. Make a point on the large format solution available, impact of aesthetics on the consumer ( Note: new applications-machines for packaging and design in general ; the example of street Wrap – covering of asphalt)

  • How do you reconcile eco-design and creativity?
    - Eco-design (or design which had been conceived ecologically) envisaged as the driver of a new creativity. Beyond the effects of fashion, how to think sustainable development in commercial architecture. What are the costs and implications for the buyer?
    - Workshop : What will the shop windows of tomorrow be? (what materials, criteria, procedures etc?)