I’m a visual communication designer combining editorial & graphic design, UI/UX and motion design.
CONTACT
nina-lou.simeon@orange.fr
I’m a visual communication designer combining editorial & graphic design, UI/UX and motion design.
CONTACT
nina-lou.simeon@orange.fr
2025-2027
Aalborg university / Aalto University
COPENHAGEN (DK) /HELSINKI (FI)
National art Bachelor
2022-2025
ESACM ECOLE SUPERIEURE d’Art
CLERMONT-FERRAND (FR)
Digital Graphic design Bachelor (Motion design and digital interface)
2019-2022
La MARTINIERE Diderot Design school
LYON (FR)
AU 2026- NOV 2026
Helsinki (FI)
Graphic designer, NR2154
2025-2026
COPENHAGEN (DK)
Mediation and communication assistant, Kling og Bang art gallery
2025
REYKJAVIK (IS)
Communication coordinator, Artistes en résidence
2025
CLERMONT-FERRAND (FR)
Graphic and motion design intern, Maitre Chat creative agency
2023
LYON (FR)
OCT-MAY 2025
CLERMONT-FD (FR)
Production volunteer, CHART art fair
AUG 2025
COPENHAGEN (DK)
Art educator, La Balise art and cultural education ESACM hub
MAY 2025
CLERMONT-FD (FR)
- Artistic remediation practice
- Graphic design and typography
- Motion design and 2D animation
- Web and UX UI design
- Book design
- Photo/video capture & editing
- Drawing and illustration
- Curatorial writing and art space management
- Academic research and writing
- Softwares: Adobe Creative Suite, WordPress, Figma, Office365 suite, Procreate, Notion
Expert competencies
- Artistic direction - Artistic / curatorial research
- Design thinking
- Knowledge of the contemporary art scene
- Project management
- Communication (print and digital)
- Cultural mediation and education
- Critical and analytical thinking
Relational capacities
- Reliability and flexibility
- Multidisciplinary thinking
- Initiatives and ideas provider
- Horizontal, collaborative and inclusive thinking
- Creativity and curiosity
- Project driven
- Communication and facilitation capacities
Languages
French NATIVE
English FLUENT
Danish INTERMEDIATE
Website made by Nina-Lou Simeon
installation
artistic research
As part of the research group La Fabrique Bleue at ESACM Clermont, centered around Maggie Nelson’s book Bluets. The project began with a collection of found images of accidental altars, created when candles are used to replace the Wii sensor bar. It unfolds across three formats: a printed image edition, screen-printed devotional candles, and a looping video displayed on a CRT television.
5 sculptures,
30x20x30cm, birthday candles
2024
A fragile neighborhood constituted of birthday candle houses, intertwined personnal history and childhood tales. Celebration has a different taste in the middle-class surburb.
11min35, found footages from the Twitch
Co-created with Cédric Jameux
2023
On Twitch, streamers sometimes leave their seats mid-stream to take a break.
After several hours of their time together, we are left alone facing an empty room, disturbed only by the echoes of the game still running. Gleaned from live streams without video—often labeled "untitled broadcast" by default, these suspended visions are recomposed here into a floating narrative. The editing borrows from the conventions of epic and adventure stories, guided by the music and sound effects of abandoned video game worlds.
installation
40x60cm, colored pencils on felt, steel bar
2024
Photographs of Californian wildfires, didn't load properly on my phone and appeared blurry. Reproduced later on felt, these distorted images evoke less the events themselves than the state of emotional overload and dissociation caused by the overabundance of images of the ongoing ecological disaster.
creative writing
drawing
Fog, Dry Eyes, and Tempered Glass is a creative thesis exploring the theme of growing up with the Internet in the early 21st century. Combining editorial design, illustration, and creative writing, the work reflects on digital imagery and spaces as formative elements of identity and emotion, beyond a real/virtual divide.
performance
editorial design
Based on a rewrite of the "15+ Tips to Cry" tutorial from WikiHow, a character delivers 15 tips meant to induce tears, one by one, and illustrates with personal anecdotes. Through various registers of voice, discourse, and scale, ranging from mainstream advices to intimate memories, the performance explores the unsettling sensation of emotional dissociation in the digital age.
Writing and design of a public handout containing the script of the performance How to Cry – A Ritual of Lacrymancia.
2024
Elements from the childhood home, suggestive symbols of domestic tales, are arranged in space like item cards. Dandelions and salt paths emerge from the everyday suburban life, amidst road salting, domestic gardens, and settings reminiscent of Skyrim-style RPGs.
60fps video,
110x70x3cm wax screen,
metal frame
2022
Derealization explores the boundary between reality and fiction. It begins with the sensation of being a video game character in the forest. This impression resonates with lived experiences of derealization, where the environment is perceived as distant, sometimes from a third-person perspective, as if observing one's own life from the outside. The video is projected at 1:1 scale onto a translucent wax screen, and passes right through it.
2026
- Work in progress -
An on-going collection and assemblage of hand close-ups found in science-fiction movies from the 2000's. I am interested in their potentiatlities as agents and expressive affective carriers, and interfaces between the human body and post-human worlds. Alongside the making of this video, I wrote an research paper exploring how hands in early 21st-century SF movies can reveal post-humanist concerns.
serie of two paintings,
oil paint on wood
2024
A serie of painted landscapes picked from IRL (in real life) and RPGs (role-play games) explored natural sites. The moths become sensible portals to long summer nights spent playing immersed in similar looking landscape than the ones just outside.