Aissatu Bah, also known as Ice, is a graphic designer at the California Institute of the Arts, pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts, based between New York and Los Angeles.
Within graphic design, she is interested in typography, identity/branding, publication/editorial, and experience design, with a knack for video directing, video editing, and photography.
When she’s not designing, you can find her out in the city, trying new restaurants, making playlists, and watching old movies.
⭐ HEY, I’M ICE 🏠 FROM NEW YORK CITY 🖥️ CALARTS ‘27 GRAPHIC DESIGN 📍 BASED IN NY/LA 🔮 POSSE SCHOLAR ‘27 🪐 ENJOY YOUR STAY! Print Fair Sign Up Posters
2025, BFA2 Category: Print (Poster)
Applications & Mediums: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Screenprinted/SilkscreenWith a group of six others, we collaborated and created a theme and sign up posters for our annual Print Fair that we run, where designers and artists can sell their artwork. These sign up posters feature some members of our group, including me, as medieval characters. Together, we collaged and created the posters in Illustrator and Photoshop, then screenprinted 120 posters.
The Graphic Design Index 2024, BFA1
Category: Publication Applications: Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator
The Graphic Design Index book is a thorough research and publication design project comprising a curated collection of historical and contemporary design. This project serves as a visual reference to showcase our skills in typography, layout and content design, and visual hierarchy.
The Methodologies & Symbols Zine is an exercise that asks students to develop their conceptual understanding and technical abilities to make meaning with images. The final results are not as important as the experience of discovering meaning through form-making or thinking by making. This project is not content driven; the goal is to integrate conceptualization with creation. Through these symbols and methodologies, the Crab should be represented.
Through these two exhibition posters, I wanted to bring attention to how individuals of marginalized communities who are often discriminated against and seen as lesser, are also victims of fetishization. The Barbie dolls, their boxes, and tags represent the stereotypes and fetishes placed on the victims, while the hand represents the fetishizer who wants to “play” with them.