isma gul hasan is an illustrator, designer and artist based in Pakistan. She completed her undergraduate degree in Visual Communication Design from Beaconhouse National University (BNU), and earned a MA in Illustration from University of the Arts London (UAL).

Her practice spans the realms of music, publishing, event design, film, civic education and art for social change, including the internationally and critically acclaimed short film, Shehr-e-Tabassum. Her illustrations have appeared in the South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG) anthology, The Funambulist and multiple issues of the Commonwealth Foundation’s literary magazine, adda, as well as in exhibitions across Lahore, Karachi, London and Berlin.

Combining various techniques, they work with digital illustration, drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and photography to create layered, mixed-media work, conceptually rooted in feminist and anticolonial frameworks, history and literature.

Between 2021-25, isma served as Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Communication and Design at Habib University, Karachi, where their pedagogy focused on the visual culture of protest, speculative design, and the illustrator’s role as storyteller, author and visual interpreter.