ULTIMedia
designs, manufactures and markets a global offer of interactive
terminals and information screens, and offers a wide range
of complementary services from the secured Internet browser
to accessories dedicated to interactive technologies and
other terminal application software.
It would seem that there is only one step from the architecture
to the interactive terminals, the step taken by Eric Dumouchel,
(Creator of ULTIMedia), a man with a personality
bubbling with activity and teeming with ideas. Architect
and designer, he has an impressive record of achievements,
thanks to his talent, his training (ENSAD and ESAG) and
his energy, his creativity, his sense of what is functional
and the control of the industrial process. In 1987, he
founded his agency as an architect, the ED agency.
With a passion for new technologies and encouraged
by an incredible ability to create and generate ideas,
he takes an interest in “everything that is
in the forefront, especially new computer technologies,
everything that stimulates the spirit without ever
cutting off ties with reality”. It is therefore
perfectly natural that he has used interactive technologies
since 1987 to present his architectural projects,
together with the hyper-realist 3D virtual animations,
which at that time were pioneering tools. Around 1990
Eric Dumouchel found himself entrusted with the development
of a variable-geometry mobile unit containing the
first interactive touch screens. He devised a ready-made
solution for this 12 meter-long mobile unit (80 square
meters, spread out), which in a way was his first
giant terminal ...
Eric Dumouchel makes a point of never separating what
is functional from what is aesthetic, but rather of
blending both concepts through action, a challenge
he met with ULTIMedia, which he created in
1997. The Davos week is symbolic in the history of
ULTIMedia. Some 100 terminals are arranged
in the station for the spectacular brainstorming organized
by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
This will be the beginning of the establishment of
an ever-increasing position worldwide.
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