128 Chapter 5 Trailblazer 4 Soleil Noir Benjamin Laugel (president and creative director of Soleil Noir) founded the Paris-based studio in 2000 with Olivier Marchand. After taking a masters degree in digital communication at ISCOM (Institut supérieur de communication et de publicité) in Paris, he started working at French cosmetic company Orlane. He soon realized that he preferred the packaging and its design to the product itself, so set up Soleil Noir, a `human- sized studio', to create mostly Flash-based immersive and interactive experiences for 50 or so global clients, including Disney Television, Nespresso, Samsung, EMI and Alfa Romeo. The studio employs 22 staff, and has received numerous the market and our curiosity entices us to explore new ways of developing and communicating. For example, right now we're developing two iPhone applications, an iPad application and an HTML5/CSS3 site.' Do they think there is a future for Flash, with Steve Jobs not supporting it on iPad? `Of course Flash still has a future! I understand Steve Jobs's position. What he cares about most is wanting his devices to work perfectly. That's why I find it normal that Adobe is optimizing its software and plug-ins to enhance the user's experience as much as possible. Flash is everywhere on the internet. Apple can't do without it, and