Céline Semaan returns to Montreal and joins Pheromone

Montreal, December 10, 2009 – Céline Semaan, internationally renowned interactive designer for both web and mobile platforms, recently left New York to return to Montreal and join Pheromone.
“I’ve always wanted to design interactive spaces that inspire people with their utility and simplicity,” Céline Semaan says. “At Pheromone, I’m discovering an agency with a mission to create these interactive spaces and one that puts the user experience at the heart of its efforts.”
In New York, Céline Semaan worked with a team of interactive designers from the agency HUGE. Using a rigorous user-centred methodology, she worked on many major international projects, including the redesign of the Reuters website, British Airways’ OpenSkies, Nutrisystem, iVillage.com, Annarbor.com and Startcooking.com.
In just a few years, she has participated in many media art exhibitions and video installations, earning her international recognition. Her Teevx.com project won the first prize for a co-production at the Banff New Media Institute in 2006, was selected for MIPTV in Cannes and was chosen as a finalist in the category New IPTV concepts for the BBC.
Céline Semaan holds a bachelor’s degree in multimedia communication from the Université du Québec à Montréal, with a minor in intermedia and cyber arts from Concordia University. She started her career in digital video and has worked with the Vidéographe team in Montreal, co-directed videos for American rapper Spank Rock and the British group Coldcut (on the British label Ninja Tune) and taught Linux interfaces in digital image at StudioXX in Montreal.