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Industrial designer Patrick Jouffret set up his agency 360 in Toulon in 2006. This life choice, far from preventing him from an international career, opened the doors to a south of France in the making.

By Sarah Carrière-Chardon - August 19, 2011

Born in Nancy, his family soon moved to Toulon. There, nature is everywhere and a constant source of inspiration. Very quickly Patrick immersed himself in the construction of herbariums, spent hours scrutinizing oceanographic plates, stacked up minerals and fossils. Constantly drawing and always with a pencil in his hand, he won the design competition for the La Garde library logo at the age of twelve. “Between a ‘mad inventor’ father and a carpenter grandfather, someone was always tinkering with something at home, but something only I was into was

into was music”. Patrick had a go at the guitar, the violin, composing… As for his studies, he spontaneously turned towards agronomy, thinking to give free rein to his taste for observing ecosystems. However his vision didn’t correspond with the teaching provided. It’s then that he discovered a funny discipline, design. Still in Toulon he enrolled at the technical and applied arts high school La Grande Tourrache, then was accepted into the industrial design school in Paris, l’Ecole Supérieure de Design Industriel. His first professional experience took

him to Japan, then to the Paris based agency DA, Designers Associés where for 7 years he covered all aspects of industrial design. So when in 2006 he founded his global design agency called 360, Patrick Jouffret returned to his roots, while staying open to the world.

When one of his Look bikes isn’t participating in the last Olympic Games in China, it’s his Infinity Lamp that’s winning the prestigious Red Dot Award, or his carbon pedal Kéo Blade the IF Design Award. A winner of numerous international prizes, Patrick Jouffret sets himself apart in the domains of sports, furniture and lighting design. More specifically in the South, he is interested in new wayfinding systems and sign design projects and is  increasingly

turning towards naval design. His latest news is the release of a brand new Look 920 bike integrating the power of carbon fiber and which should be chewing up the bitumen of Provence and elsewhere from next September. Genuinely multi-talented, Patrick Jouffret conceives and designs at all scales in an approach in which design and performance don’t break from a human, poetic and sustainable dimension.

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