washington post
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
this is for the cover of the washington post sunday arts section. it turns out that this is the only story on the front page so they are going to end up running it the size of the whole front page. can't wait to see what it looks like this sunday. its for an article about celebrity interviews and how they are not all spontaneous and are planned out by others behind the scenes.
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Atlantis
Thursday, July 19, 2007
this is a half page illustration for the City Pages (Twin Cities) A-List. Its a calendar of weekly events. This week the featured event is an acrobatic show with an Atlantis theme. A pretty cool assignment and the deadline was over a week long instead of 2 days or overnight so I was able to spend some extra time on this one. The headline and sidebar will look something like this. Now that I look at it I forgot to put light reflection ripples, even though it might take me a while to figure out how to pull that kind of magic.
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Self promo pieces
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
I have been sitting on these drawings for over 6 months and finally got around to finishing them. The late rappers 2Pac and Biggie. Maybe cheesy but the title of the 2Pac piece is "Tupacaderm". I felt pressed to finally finish these because I have a meeting at Atlantic records tommorow and needed some more music related pieces for my portfolio. I guess a lot of times when I illustrate rappers I try to delaflate the "gangsterness" quality in them, flipping how you think of them. and since i've been getting so many calls from hip hop magazines lately i've had a bunch of chances to do that.
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jazz times magazine
Friday, July 06, 2007
this is a full page illustration for an article about jazz cameos in films. They wanted an illustration of the scene in Mel Brook's "Blazing Saddles" where count basie is with his orchestra in the middle of the desert playing "april in paris" while the new Sherriff in town rides by and gets a salutation from the count.
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the source again
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
this was for an article about how what rappers say and claim is taken as truth in our culture. rappers saying their chain is worth a million or they have 10 cars, it's hard for all of this to be verified. Nothing is as it seems and everything is for show. One thing the article touches on is 50 cent's profit from the sale of vitamin water to coca cola. They claim he made $400 million from the deal because he owned 10% of the company but no one can verify any of this, but it's truth on the street now. I didnt know if i should leave the arrows in or out so i dont know which one they chose.
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rides magazine
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
this is for the talkin' crash column again. it's about how dj jazzy jeff was in a crash in this van and had to get a full leg cast but went on to perform that same nite.
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Art directors club illustration portfolio review
I did this day at the art directors club, the illustration review day. It was limited to 50 illustrators and art directors, art buyers, creative directors, etc... came and looked at my portfolio and took promo cards and tear sheets. I made these 2d cutouts of a bunch of characters i have done and made little stands for them so the could stand up on my table. I made some good contacts.
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The source again
Friday, June 01, 2007
for an article about rappers swearing a lot. they wanted the rapper to look like a generic rapper. I think i pulled it off this time. doesn't look like any know rapper. I'm glad I was able to use the fade away this time. Finally!
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Black Enterprise magazine
Friday, May 25, 2007
this was for their "shop smart" section. They gave me 3 color i had to use. It's for an article about how your credit score can do great things for you. pretty boring stuff but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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not really illustration related
Friday, May 18, 2007
an old obsession of mine is on the verge of being rekindled. Ping Pong/Table Tennis. Since my old roomate that i met in korea moved from LA to NY now we play ping pong a couple times a week. I just found out that my Motion graphics animator friends also play. And who woulda thunk it but that is sonu satchev right there! and hes good! This is getting a little out of control. not really illustration related but im sure it will make it into my illustrations. oh yea it already has. In the backbone mag illo i just did there are ping pong paddles on one of the post it notes
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Rides magazine again
Thursday, May 17, 2007
this is for their "talkin crash" section where they talk about a celebrity car crash, usually a rapper. this time is was mims, the guy that sings "this is why i'm hot". since i've been in my little bubble of work i've never heard this song. But now that i have i can see what great lyrics are coming out these days. "This is why i'm hot, I'm hot cuz i'm fly, you aint cuz you not"! I found this post (link below) by some guy while i was researching mims and thought it was pretty funny, it breaks down how much sense these lyrics make.
http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0711,harvilla,76021,22.html
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Backbone magazine illo
This is for Backbone, a Canadian Business Magazine. Its about a new web and phone service that lets users leave messages and reviews for other users on map. The messages are called "sticky notes".
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American Medical News Illustrations
Monday, May 14, 2007
I did a full page and a spot illo for them. the guy looking up at the rocket will be on the second page. the guy floating in space is the front page for the business section. Its an article about doctors launching a second office. the spot illlustration is about not launching a second office.
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City Pages illo
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
this is for the City Pages (Twin Cities) A-List. A weekly calendar highlighting the weeks best activities in minnesota. There is a new roller coaster opening at this one amusement park.
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Fashion Institute of Technology Poster
This is for the graphics lab at FIT. It's 1 foot by 3 foot, pretty big and took pretty long. It took probably an hr alone at least to scan everything. I had to paint the background texture on a huge piece of paper and scan it in 5 sections on an 11x17 scanner. 
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The Source Illustration
Friday, May 04, 2007
this is for the source, a hip hop magazine. it's about rappers being censored by the gov't in the aftermath of talk show host Don Imus's ordeal. The rappers aren't supposed to look like anyone in particular but a couple of them did anyway, which in hindsight could be bad because people could think i tried to do likenesses and that i'm just not very good at likenesses.
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American Illustration 26
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Hooray, I had 3 pieces chosen for American Illustration 26, their annual illustration competition. it was these three. Raekwon the chef, Minnesota City Pages A-List jazz guys, and Word of Mouth advertising Entrepreneur magazine illustrations.
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Hooray! Society of Illustrators LA!!!
Thursday, April 26, 2007
So i was googling my name last night and an link came up that had my name on the society of illustrators LA list of chosen illustrators in their Illustration West 45 Competition (judging took place in october!). I remember getting a rejection letter from them in the mail back in october and thought, hey whats going on here, i know i am a loser but do they have to mess with me by putting my name up there in error. I emailed them and Alyce called me and said I actually was chosen and she sent me the award notification back in october! But i already missed being able to participate in the exhibit at the gallery in LA and also being included in the limited edition book! the only reason i'm not 100% infuriated is that it feels better knowing i didnt get shut out of all the competions this year. It turns out that they made an error entering my info into the database and entered jason@hasonraish.com as my email address so i never got anything from them so i missed out on the best stuff! It was this Jazz times one that got in. Hooray for my first proffesional recognition! Boo for human error!
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Westchester Magazine Illo
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
This is for an article about wether or not you should tell other parents if you see their child being bad. 3 different options for the finish.
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Wall St. Journal spot
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
this article is about how google and other search engines are adding features for users to personalize and return results tendered towards them. The little guys are characters I call the "Ginjabytes". The boxes they are carrying out of the guys head represent personal data. The gingabyes are based on a true story. I was a computer lab helper guy in school and there was this young student who was grossly computer uneducated that couldn't figure out why he couldn't save his files. I explained to him about storage space and megabytes and gigabytes. He said, "Oh my god yo, this project it due in an hour yo, what am i gonna do yo? you gotta help me! You know I don't F' with thems Ginjabytes and sh!t, what am i gonna do about the Ginjabytes yo!!" Pretty funny no? It wasn't until this illustration that I realized what the Ginjabytets were, let alone what kind of job they did. They're the little guys inside of your computer that move all your file around of course. Doi! ----Update---- the lighter one is the revision i had to do. They wanted it to look like they were doing a good thing to him not a bad thing
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