Designer and joint head of the post-graduate "Design and Research" programme at the Saint-Etienne Higher School of Art and Design, Rodolphe Dogniaux trained at the French Higher School of Industrial Design (ENSCI-Les Ateliers) and at the French Higher School of Decorative Arts and Industrial Art and Design (ENSAAMA), he worked as a designer in different Parisian design agencies, then as Artistic Director of Xalchimie and Celevenus Japan.