Les Francouvertes
—2026

Les Francouvertes is a competition dedicated to emerging French-language music, each year revealing a new generation of artists through a series of shows, prizes and public events. With some thirty editions under its belt, the event relies on an impressive volume of content, with dozens of artists per year, audio and video archives that have been accumulating since the beginning, galleries, news and more.

We were commissioned to develop the new site with a central challenge: to make this mass of content navigable, lively and pleasant to explore, without ever weighing down the experience. The site also had to support the highlights of the year - opening of the competition, online voting, live broadcast of the final - while allowing the team a great deal of autonomy to develop the pages as the season progressed.

The interface is based on a highly flexible block system, giving the team a great deal of freedom in content layout. A large part of the work focused on animations and micro-interactions that punctuate navigation: transitions between sections, scrolling behaviors, elements that react to mouse-over, all designed to give movement to the site without ever stealing the spotlight from the content. The site also features online voting, live YouTube broadcasts, complete archives of previous editions, and a library of audio clips, photo galleries and videos from a variety of sources.