Funsie Onesies

I've always wanted to design funky one-off onesies so when a cousin of mine gave birth to an adorable baby boy I found this to be the perfect opportunity to design a 'souvenir' gift.  My favourite is definitely the name logo in Arabic!

Baby's logo name in Arabic

Baby signs

Working baby

The 'funsies'

Liz and the 80s

Initially I was going to illustrate a caicature of Liz from the sixites but I accidentally came across a picture of her massive, questionable hairdo from the 80s. Talk about va-va-va voom volume! Perhaps still not big enough? Anyway, always good to know that someone else had a bigger hairdo than mine (For those of you who know me, you know what I'm talking about!)

Colour Block 80s

LT wall mural. Arm chair from Moooi,
cushion from Bo Concept

Mabrook! (Congratulations)

Congratulations to the lovely couple Linda and Mahmoud who just got married last eve!! Here's to a happy lifetime together! These illustrations were made for Linda's wedding signboard so once I receive some images of the final piece I shall post! Linda is dressed in traditional Palestinian thobe while Mahmoud sports a Lebanese dabke costume.

Hepburn + Funny Face + Vespa = All Smiles

I love illustrating people in such a way that reveals a fun aspect about their character. Why? Simply because it makes me smile and I guess others too. I call it art that makes you smile. And this adorbale, truely funny-faced little icon called Hepburn has always been on my top list of must-illustrate. I was flipping through her pictures from 'The Audery Hepburn Treasures' (great book by the way if you're a fan) and found myself smiling all the way through at her quirky facial features. The ones that struck me most were the Roman Holiday images. I sort of imagine myself doing the same thing crashing my way through Rome on a little Vespa. Speaking of which I  once read that it's because of her in that movie Vespas have become so popular amongst women...I'd really love to own one. But can anybody bring it to the UAE? I know, we have crazy highways and terrible random drivers but still, I wouldn't mind driving a hot pink one around my neigbourhood!

Marilyn On My Mind

Vanity Fair November issue cover story Marilyn Monroe inspired me to create this caricature. Her story for VF is pretty sad but looking at her pictures she always seems so alive, happy and living it up all the time. Regardless of  her scandals and personal issues, I just think she's an absolutely gorgeous woman and definitely a must-illustrate icon. So I decided to do just that and because I liked the image so much, I wanted to incorporate it for an interior space. I think she looks really good blown-up on the wall with some old-style french furniture like the chaise-longue in the picture. Something symbolic of old and new. I think the combination looks pretty cool and adds a fresh and fun element to any living space. More to come.

Eid Adha Mubarak 2010!

Wishing you, your families and loved ones a wonderful Eid Adha Mubarak!! 

Feline Fatale

Two nights ago I had an amazing night out celebrating my friend's bachelorette party with everyone. I also had the pleasure of helping organize it and creating this super hot illustration of a lady in a cat suit, representing the bride-to-be herself, for a poster. The illustration turned out to be a huge success and an inspiration for the birth of the 'Aty' pose...love it!

photography by Fitri Wahib

Happy Illustrations

This week is all about illustrating profiles and I absolutely love it. Some people think it's poking fun at people and distorting faces, but for me it's not like that at all. Instead I like to think of it as exaggerating some features in such a way as to bring about a certain aspect of the character to life and create a humorous mood (ensuring everyone stays happy too!) My style is very simple really and mainly based on geometrical shapes keeping it nice and clean. This is an illustration of my friends, a lovely couple who recently celebrated their 1st year wedding anniversary. Chantal wanted to give Jack something different with a personal touch as a gift so she commissioned me to create this light-hearted poster which actually turned out to be a lot of fun to make! And a great gift idea too (a happy ending for the couple...)

Sketch Therapy

Sketching is indeed very therapeutic and enriching. It definitely helps me overcome creative blocks as I suddenly find myself generating new ideas to play around with. At other times, doodling away simply helps me unwind and forget about everything....

Architectural Avalanche

This is a pop-up store under the high line in New York City for fashion designer Richard Chai created in collaboration with Snarkitecture. The interior features an urban glacial cavern installation creating a dynamic atmosphere that taps into the senses and thus ultimately redefining the fashion shopping experience by making it a unique one for visitors.

image via dave pinter

image by David Smith and Faris Al-Shathir

image by David Smith and Faris Al-Shathir

images via contemporist

image via contemporist

image courtesy snarkitecture, photographer: lexie moreland