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Meet Maxwell Awan!

Emily and I wanted to introduce you to Maxwell Henry Awan! Max was born Saturday, September 21st, 8:44pm in Manhattan. He was 7 lbs 8.4 oz and 20 inches in length. Everyone's healthy, happy and sleep deprived!

jasharawan.com 4.0

I just revamped my website—check it out!

Emily's got it covered!

Emily's work is featured on the cover of PUSH Stitchery: 30 Artists Explore the Boundaries of Stitched Art from Lark Books. It's out this September but you can preorder your copy here!

Heart the Hottest: Posters

My "Carole" print ended up on Kaboodle's Pop 10: Heart the Hottest! Stop by and vote for my girl.

The knot is tied!

I may be biased but it was the best wedding I'd ever been to!
More pics here.

Somebody, somebody, somebody!

Emily and I got engaged! I'm going to have this song stuck in my head for the next few months:

Life after Pratt

Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking to illustration students at Pratt Institute about what to expect after graduation and how the ComD program prepared me for it. More info here!

Update (11.17.09): Thanks to everyone who stopped by today to hear me speak!

Chosen

I had these two pieces chosen to appear on TRIBUTE, American Illustration's web gallery launching later this year. Thanks to the jury and the art directors who made this possible!

"Marketing Illustration"

I'm interviewed in "Marketing Illustration: New Venues, New Styles, New Methods" by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman. Other interviewees include Christoph Niemann, Alex Murawski, Yuko Shimizu, and Tomer Hanuka.

The book hits stores in one month but you can pre-order it at a discount here.

More about Steve Heller here.
More about Marshall Arisman here.

Amble prints

(click on the images to buy prints)

I've already posted about this, but I got the prints in the mail and wanted to show them off!

All of my signed ultrachrome prints are on archival Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper (5 x 7 inches) and inside clear archival sleeves.

Buy the prints as well as original works here.

Amble through Bramble

My good friend Morgan Levine will be on the Martha Stewart Show, Wednesday at 11am on NBC. She will be featured in two segments explaining how to fold crepe paper flowers.

Morgan's also set up an online store, Amble through Bramble, where you can buy her paper flowers (dipped in resin) as barrettes or brooches! She also has invited Emily L. Eibel and me to sell prints and original works in her Guest Exhibition section!

All of my signed ultrachrome prints are on archival Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper (5 x 7 inches) and inside clear archival sleeves.

Soul of Shaolin prints

Soul of Shaolin, edition of 100 archival ultrachrome prints on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper

(7.877" x 2.25", including a 0.5" border all around)

Legendary producer Bob Nederlander ordered 100 prints of my Soul of Shaolin illustration! He was also generous enough to invite me to the opening- the first Chinese production ever done on Broadway.

Just a reminder- all images on jasharawan.com are available as archival giclée prints. Please contact me for more details.

New Yorker Desk Diary 2009

an unused Highline sketch, 2007

This year's New Yorker desk diary features my illustration of Highline Park. You can pick up your own 2009 desk calendar here.

Happy New Year

Battery Park, December 19, 2008

Here are a handful of personal highlights from 2008:

- Taschen
- Auto Repair/ Horse Wash
- Gold!!!
- How I spent my Labor Day Weekend
- Signal Watch
- Welcome Friend or Foe

Special thanks to all of the art directors I worked with over the past year. I'm looking forward to hearing from you in 2009! Check out my '08 published work here.

Happy New Year! Be seeing you!

Random Rules!

What's better than a button to a store that's perpetually "coming soon"? A button to everything! Every time you click "rndm" (above the portfolio thumbnails on my site) a new jpeg from my images archive will appear. It might take a moment to load the first time you click it but after that it should be faster. Enjoy!

Update (3:31 pm): It should be loading faster now. Sorry for the wait...

Gold!!!

"The Elusive Patient," American Medical News, May 14, 2007

I just heard that "The Elusive Patient" took home the gold at the American Society of Business Publication Editors regional awards! Thanks for the good news, Casey- not to mention the assignment and the art direction :) More info here.

Below are some other pieces that I put together from the drawings done for this illo.

News of the Day

-Have some cake and punch- it's Nick's Birthday!

- Congratulations to Todd and Laura on their wedding! Also, congrats to Madeline and Turner for tying the knot.

-Check out Courtney's new blog, Spoon Feed.

-We'll miss you, Scamper Van Pelt.

Lost at E Minor

Ilana Kohn featured my work in her latest "Lost at E Minor" art column. Check it out here.

Starting a collection on the cheap

PEP gallery is featured in an article about art collecting on a budget. My "Carole" print is one of the images used to illustrate the story. Read it here.