ISMAHANE POUSSIN






Ismahane Poussin is a multidisciplinary artist and/or designer based in Paris, France.  

Often working across multiple mediums simultaneously, both traditional and digital, she adopts an exploratory artistic approach fueled by perpetual curiosity. She believes in the intersections between different domains and in experimenting with new processes. Her primary graphic inquiries revolve around the boundaries of various mediums and how to create within self-imposed constraints and rules of the game. Through her work, she seeks to provoke personal reflection with a strong sense of meaningness, political, social & philosophical as an approach base.
A child of the internet, she was early fascinated by the naive and vibrant aesthetics of early computers.
These images from the dawn of the digital age never leave her and serve as her primary source of inspiration.  

She is also an art curator, part of Milieu Studio, a girl-runned  trio to make art collectivly efficient.


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CV 






Education
 2019_2021
MA Type design
École Estienne,Paris

2017_2019
BA Graphic Design 
École Duperré, Paris



Exhibitions + Features
 2025
Publication of my Wage Against the Machine project in the first Another Graphics publication.

2024
Publication of my Wage Against the Machine project in the Slanted magazine n°44.

2024
Exhibition of a collective art installation september 27- 29, Arches Citoyennes, Paris

2024
Exhibition of an artwork and curation of the collective exhibition Autopoïèse at Tour Orion on June 14-15, 2024.

2024
Exhibition of my project Wage Against the Machine at the Zero1 Festival in La Rochelle, from March 28-30, 2024.

2023
Mention in The Index newsletter [It’s Nice That] on November 23, 2023, about my latest typo-knitting research.

2022
Article in It’s Nice That magazine about my diploma project, Wage Against the Machine.

2021
Exhibition of the project Wage Against the Machine at Paris Design Week 2021.



Jobs 2023–TODAY
Freelance for various clients such as Cure Skatemagazine, avril paris, Lueur, Canal+, Festival Zero1, Dockyard, HKW Berlin, Archive Books, cultural collectives, Rex Club, musicians, etc.

NOVEMBER 2022–TODAY
Multidisciplinary graphic designer at 
Petite Friture, Montreuil.

APRIL 2022–JULY 2022
Graphic designer and typographer at Studio B2302, Berlin, Germany.

FEBRUARY 2022–APRIL 2022
Graphic designer at Green Fabric [sustainable textile fablab], Brussels, Belgium.

OCTOBER 2021–JANUARY 2022
Junior graphic designer at Studio Malte Martin, Paris.



What I can do for you 
Posters, books, magazines, illustration, visual systems, branding, visual identities, flyers, animations, knitted posted and scarves and many more

All Adobe suite, knitting machine, figma, a little bit of blender, processing, some CSS






SELECTED WORKS ILLUSTRATION  KNITTING







Velib Racing Bingo 
Poster for the incoming event of Velib Racing, a community bike lover organization.





Sieste Ensemble 
Visual system for the third edition of Sieste Ensemble, a collective organizing musical & visual naps. The working protocol was based on the same process as automatic writing: writing, without prior consultation, without constraint and without anticipation, fragments of sentences taken from texts read during the performance of jchsmpbnsahg, inventing random and instinctive ductus. Following this same process of trial and error, cutting, collaging, and recomposing, all of the posters were made by hand—scanning, photocopying, reprinting on tracing paper, draft sheets, and white paper.










Record for Geagea
 Design for the last record album Emotional Overload of Geagea, a french singer. The design includes a cover, lyric sheet, a sticker and a flyer for the release party.









Microplastic Diet
Poster, social media posts and...chamallows for Microplastic Diet, an exhibition curated by Mathilde Badié, 1/3. First image is a riso-print reedition made for a food market in 2025. 








Musafiri
Reader from the exhibition Musafiri at the HKW, Berlin. 
The book is based on a system of shapes inspired by the principle of Oraliture. Often used in the work of Madame Zo, Oraliture is an Haitian notion defining the ways of transmitting informations & knowledge through other mediums than written words. It is composed of the words oral and litterature, designate oral transmission but also music, patterns, textile, etc.
By reading the contributions, we gathered recurring themes and translated them into shapes listed in a visual summary as an abstract alphabet. Every chapter is marked by a specific abstract pattern made by shapes representing the notions of the following text.








Selection of posters
Selection of various posters for cultural events.







Les courantes
Les courant•es is a short documentary produced for the exhibition “Pourvu que ça dure” (May it last) in which we attempt to capture the relationships that four artists have with their temporary studios, the emotional attachment they have to them, and the way in which movement influences their practices. This video work complements the exhibition and highlights what happens between the creative act and the act of display, in the intimacy of these fluid spaces.
The report was screened in the small room on the sixth floor of the Orion Tower during the exhibition “Pourvu que ça dure.”

Link to the video 







Petite Friture
Since 2022, I am working with Petite Friture, a designer object editor. Animations, printed objects, catalogue, technical files, web campaigns and, in 2024, rebranding: I make every visual objects to perfectly match the artistic direction of the brand, responding to every need following seasons, trends, etc. This work includes resarches, benches, reference studies and type research. Occasionnaly, I did 3D set design for campaigns. 
Selection of recent works, more visuals or specific visuals on demand.





OPEN TO WORK