nicole ban

is a graphic designer with an affinity for visual identities, exhibitions, and publications driven by play and typography. open to collaborations... don’t be shy!

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BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (2024)!

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In Between Dreams

2025 For dreamers and lovers. 
In Between Dreams is a fictional floral studio teaching workshops, hosting events, and delivering flowers, seeds, and kits.

 

Sweet Orchard

2024 Sweet Orchard is an imagined cafe created by two friends who dream of opening a cafe inspired by Asian flavors and European style bakeries.

The visuals revolve around textured, hand-drawn illustrations and bright citrus colors against a soft, neutral palette.

in your hands

2024 in your hands is a reader comprised of sources that inform and orient how I strive to see the world—looking closely, softly, slowly. 

The essays, book excerpts, poems, and quotes consider the value of smallness and the everyday through an intersectional point of view. 

Each reader contains a bookmark and a series of prompts. Printed using Metallic Gold Risograph ink and black & white inkjet.

objects of affection

2024 objects of affection is about the things we keep and carry throughout our lives that hold personal meaning. This series of work explores the small and personal, gathering pieces of my life, stories of others, and those yet to unfold. 

degree project

It Takes A Village

2024

Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
RISD Graphic Design Senior Show 
It Takes a Village…to raise a child. All of us stepped into RISD as children, ready to learn, ready to find ourselves and our practices, ready to find our callings. The camaraderie and community we struggled to foster as first-year students while traversing the challenges of pandemic times were all the more cherished when we stepped into the nine floors of the Design Center.

Each publication is comprised of a custom envelope, tear-off postcard catalog, curatorial statement, cohort list, and sticker sheet bound by a metal clip. The exhibit brought the Design Center to the gallery space, playing on the concept of the nine floors of the department building through wayfinding and installation.

Publication & Merch Team with Muhaddisa Ali, Ollantay Avila, Seunghyun Cho, Lily Joiner

Exhibition Team with Ryan Hsiao, Leslie Berumen Flores, Lily Joiner, Mighty Wanitprapha, Ivy Zhang

Documentation by Muhaddisa Ali and Ivy Zhang

Ana Mendieta: 
The Unbaptized Earth

2023 Ana Mendieta: The Unbaptized Earth features essays from various artists, art historians, and critics that speak on Ana Mendieta’s work and career. The book encompasses Mendieta’s work across her career, focusing on the range of mediums and approaches. 
While acknowledging the Silueta Series as her most well-known and expansive collection, the selection of images attempts to introduce her earlier and later artworks with a focus on the places she lived, 
cared for and worked with.

There’s No Hope for Love in Rhode Island

2023

Memorial Hall Gallery & GD Commons RISD, Providence, RI
There’s No Hope for Love in Rhode Island declares hope must be found elsewhere—within ourselves, our community, and our dreams. 
The exhibition centers around the reclamation of painful past experiences through the creation of dream worlds and safe community spaces. 

Creative direction, production, installation, and documentation in collaboration with co-curator Mila Love.

Illustrations by Mila Love.
 

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