Joachim Roncin is the director of design for the Paris 2024 Olympics. A renowned design maven in Paris and beyond, Roncin has previously held roles as creative director for the Ballon d’Or, France’s annual football award, and Cérémonie des César, France’s national film awards ceremony. The Olympics is on a different scale, of course. This has been a five-year assignment with a sprawling, impossibly broad scope, a hard deadline, a global audience and – ideally – a positive legacy that will span generations of future citizens. The heat is real.
Wallpaper* sat down with Joachim to take his temperature just days before Paris 2024 kicks off.
