slate.com
Monday, February 18, 2008
this will be a the header for their new legal blog
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Logo sketches
Thursday, February 14, 2008
These were some quick logo sketch ideas i came up with when my old roomie from Korea, Yoon asked me to see if i could come up with something really quick for him mom's new frozen yogurt establishment. they didnt end up going with these but thats ok I HATE doing logos.
Posted byJason Raish at 1:58 AM 2 comments
Vote for which pieces I should submit to upcoming competitions
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Here are some new ones that are'nt posted anywhere else but are included in this poll
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EUSTACE TILLEY contest entry
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
the new yorker held a contest via flickr for their watever anniversary EUSTACE TILLEY issue. he is that snooty little dandy that is the new yorkers logo mascot guy. this was my entry
Posted byJason Raish at 12:04 AM 1 comments
Mock Book cover
Friday, January 18, 2008
I need to start getting something that looks like book covers in my portfolio so when i go to meet these art directors they stop looking at me like im a jerk. Here is one idea i had a few years ago that I finally executed. "marinade your mind" : a look at today's drinking culture, written by jason raish. I am not a good graphic designer. After looking at tons of cool book covers i've decided that being a book cover designer would be pretty cool if i wasn't an illustrator. Especially if your Chip Kidd or Ben Gibson or someone like that. I dont know if this works better with the beer on his brain or about to hit it.
Posted byJason Raish at 12:47 AM 2 comments
Circa 1990
Saturday, January 12, 2008
I found this book that I made when i was 8 yrs old in 3rd grade back in 1990. It's about Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox babe, and the grand canyon. Let's take a look at this thing.
the cover - what an ameatur piece of work this is. It's just stapled together and drawn on obviously non archival paper. Horrible font choices. and way to not make grand canyon ledgible Jason you little retard. and what is babe standing on? air? and why does it just say jason raish in pencil after paul bunyan? do you mean by jason raish? this is the fault of both the artist and 3rd grade teacher, bad editing and proofing.
dedication page - I was such a fool to dedicate this to the grand canyon. It's long since forgotten me and probably was never even my friend in the first place. Even when I flew over it a few years ago to go to LA to visit some friends it didnt even look at me.
page 1 - what a little retard I was, and still am. way to take into account the gutter 8 yr old jason and lose a bunch of your words. (the gutter is where book is bound)
page 3 - I think that guy running away is kind of funny. It's sad but thats about the quality of the sketches I give art directors now in 2008
page 4 - watever
page 5 - I dont think i made that up out of my head. Looks like even back then I had no imagination and was a slave to photo reference.
Author's page - it says it took me three days to complete this book. it would probably take me 3 years to do this book now because i have lost all the magic of childhood and am now a late 20's something anal old man that listen's to pre-war jazz.
Comments page - I get the same comments now because my art only appeals to 8 yr old goblins. I'm such a good Pitcher and Illustrashans maker!
Posted byJason Raish at 4:05 PM 2 comments
rides again
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
for an article about elderly drivers
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Bob
Monday, December 31, 2007
only 2 new entries in the saga of bob. I was totally paralyzed this holiday season and could only watch tv and eat. These sketches are pretty bad but i think they have captured the essence of bob and his new changes. Bob is getting a little of a belly now and i like the little sketch to the side that i did in 5 minutes better than that horrible attempt at shading his face. the second sketch shows bob glazed over from too much holiday cheer, horrible drawing but i captured the essence of the disgusting moment.
Posted byJason Raish at 3:27 PM 2 comments
Network World Illos
Friday, December 28, 2007
These were for a year end issue of network world. I had to illustrate one of the smartest and one of the dumbest Technology moves made this year. They gave me a list of choices. The smartest is about google's "G Phone" development. They are making the phone open source and working with a many different developers unlike apple's IPHone. The dumbest is about ghost bloggers. CEO's and executives that have fake blogs made for them that they don't write themselves.
Posted byJason Raish at 2:09 PM 1 comments
Happy Holidays from Me
Monday, December 24, 2007
Happy Holidays All
Posted byJason Raish at 11:49 AM 1 comments
Revenue Magazine Full page illo
Monday, December 17, 2007
This is a full page illustration i did a few months ago that finally went to print this month. Its about using less traditional search engines and methods to find information.
Posted byJason Raish at 12:55 AM 1 comments
Motortrend magazine
Sunday, December 09, 2007
this is a spot in this months motortrend magazine. It's about this new anti-whiplash head restraint requirement in new cars that is making headrests pretty uncomfortable.
Posted byJason Raish at 12:26 PM 2 comments
Health Data Management cover
Monday, December 03, 2007
the cover for health data management this month. it was a very hard topic to illustrate because i had very little to go on and pretty vague. It was about executives, it guys, doctors, nurses, hospital staff working together to find the right mobile software and hardware "solutions" Sounds so exciting right? sometimes you gotta make lemons into lemonade. I gave them 2 versions, one with the paint texture "platform" they're standing on and one without. they ended up going with the platform version.
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Seattle Weekly spot illo
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
This is in this weeks seattle weekly. its about Judy Collins, a 60's music star who is now sequined dressed'd up and performing at supper club type joints. They said it was necessary that it be a sequined dress so i didnt panic and knew that i could figure something out. At first i extracted some actual sequins and tried putting hundreds of them on her dress and it looked horrible. if i had to paint them i would cry. this is one of the times im truly grateful for photoshop. the secret is i just used a default photoshop flower brush and a sparkle brush to achieve the over sequin look. it reduced down and published small enough that i think it worked! sometimes i get too obsessive about individual elements when i just need to look at what i need to do to achieve the overall final look.
Posted byJason Raish at 10:19 PM 1 comments
Washington Post Saturday Style
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
this was the cover for last saturday's style section. its an article about how crazy sells. amy winehouse, britney spears and r kelly all have had much sucess despite their crazy habits. they spelled my name wrong and ran a correction the other day also.
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Seattle Weekly Thelonious Monk
Monday, October 29, 2007
I did this a few weeks ago for Seattle Weekly. The art director from City Pages (Twin cities) Moved over to Seattle Weekly and liked my stuff so she gave me a call. This was about Thelonious Monk and his weird sporatic playing style. I'm a fan of Monk so of course I took this job. I never saw how the final layout looked.
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Children's Book Idea
Saturday, October 20, 2007
I finally found some time to finish this illustration. it's been sitting half finished for months. I was going to try to make a children's book story out of these guys. It's all written down but i still need to draw everything out. A few publishers told me that my Jason's smelly pants book idea is too hyper realistic for kids and I am afraid that I made these guys to gruesome and hyper-realistic as well. What do yall think?
Posted byJason Raish at 8:00 PM 1 comments
Tanuki from Kenka
Sunday, October 14, 2007
This is a sketch i did a while ago of this tanuki "racoon dog" that sits on the counter by the cash register in a great japanese drinking place called Kenka on st. marks place. They have a huge tanuki statue in the front of the restaurant in another style with glowing red lightbulb eyes. after wikipedia research they usually wear a straw hat, carry a bottle of sake, and a bill they will never pay in the other hand. i have heard they are sort of a symbol of drunkiness. I should further develop this guy but knowing those japanese im sure they beat me to it like centuries ago.
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Risen Magazine Interview
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Alicia Frank for Risen Magazine interviewed me this summer and its finally out in their oct/nov issue now. it has two spreads of my work. Pretty cool to see but it feels weird.
Posted byJason Raish at 4:51 PM 2 comments
riverfront times
Thursday, October 04, 2007
this is a half page illo for their weekly calendar page. Its a paper from st. louis. the featured event that week was this series of Scottish games held annually. One of the events is something about throwing logs the furthest.
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LA Times
Friday, September 28, 2007
This is a quick turn around for the LA times, It will be out in this sunday's paper in the sunday opinions column, running in b/w. I've just gotta the the NY Times now! the story is about healthcare reforms. I tried to make the nose a little different, i dont know if its working, but i have to do these little experiments to keep it fun for me.
Posted byJason Raish at 4:22 PM 0 comments
Printmaking class
I am taking a printmaking class at FIT and it has been kind of a drag until this week. This is a self portrait assignment in woodblock form. I printed it this week and it came out looking pretty crazy/funny. its drying so next week ill post that up. so i am liking the class more now. but i dont think it worth it for all the hrs of carving wood. anyway i'll see how i do with linonleum. i think i should just start doing my own thing but the proffessor is such a nice guy i feel bad about going against the grain.
Posted byJason Raish at 4:19 PM 2 comments
rides magazine
Monday, September 24, 2007
this is for rides magazine. the "talkin crash" section. Rapper David Banner was rear ended by a blond on her cell phone.
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chico news and review cover
here is this weeks cover for the Chico News and Review. I had to change it to green because the the theme is green/sustainability on the inside. Interesting that they would call me for this one. I've worked with them before but im more of a people illustrator as opposed to a tree guy, but i suprised myself. Still like the red one better but oh well.
Posted byJason Raish at 11:52 AM 1 comments
My Midwest magazine
Thursday, September 20, 2007
this is a full page and a spot for Midwest airline's inflight magazine "my midwest" This is the first job i have gotten as a result of doing that art directors club illustration review day back in the summer. the article is about one bad apple in the office ruining the whole bunch. chain reaction stuff leading to bad behavior and performance in everyone. This came out different than my other stuff i guess.
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jazz sketches
I finally got to a jazz club on sunday and sketched a couple of the players. They were a "latin jazz" group but their line up was weird. the lead was a trombone player. he was tall skinny and perfect for drawing. they had a trumpet, piano, upright bass, drums, and a conga player. i was happily suprised they were good. its "smoke" on 106 and broadway. i miss sketching and i miss live jazz, i should make it a sunday thing.
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Westchester Magazine
Friday, September 07, 2007
for an article about how hard it is to start your own restaurant. this guy has to do accounting, paper work, contracts, market, promote, taste test, be a chef, cut red tape, etc.... one of the few times i have made up a face out of my head. also the first time i've signed the piece in the corner. was trying to go for a slightly different look this time.
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UTNE reader magazine
Thursday, September 06, 2007
an illo for utne magazine. it will be out in november.
Posted byJason Raish at 12:10 AM 0 comments
Washington Post Style/Arts cover
Sunday, September 02, 2007
the style and arts sections of the post are merged now. this is the cover for this sunday about amateurs like reality TV show stars coming up on proffessional actors and taking over. It printed huge again. hooray!
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