May 2013

The Period Store

May 31, 2013 No Comments

My friend/collaborator (we’re doing a book together) Rubi Jones recently launched a clever company called The Period Store with some friends. It’s a monthly subscription service for…well…that time of month. You can choose what products you need, what treats you want (some chocolates or a lot of chocolates!!) and each package comes with tea and meds and a little surprise gift like a lovely letterpress piece of art work. It’s such a clever way to treat yourself and get what you need. They’re having a big launch party tomorrow night. I’ll be there hopefully getting my hair braided by Rubi at her braid bar! Subscribe to the service now or just test it out next month. Have a marvelous weekend!

Love,

Sam

p.s some links:

My book is available for pre-order and I was interviewed on the Good Life Project
How to dance properly to Daft Punk
Maurice Sendak exhibit
Matthew Barney drawing exhibit
A t-rex attacks a wedding party
Conversations with a two year old

Good Life Project

May 30, 2013 4 Comments

I’m truly honored to have been interviewed by Jonathan Fields for the incredible Good Life Project:

Samantha Hahn was born into a world of color and texture and light.

Now a well-known NYC illustrator and author of the forthcoming book,Well Read Women, Hahn’s story is very different from the “counter-industry” stories, like Ann Rea and Lisa Congdon, we’ve featured on past episodes of Good Life Project.

Drawn to the arts as a child, she went to school, got her degree, spent time as a “fine artist” and then teaching. But at some point, the system she was working wasn’t working for her any more. Rather that stepping outside, though, she decided to lean into it. Leveraging the system, but bending it to accomodate the way she felt called to build her craft and her career.

We dive into some really interesting ground in this conversation, including how she broke into the brutally hard to enter world of commercial illustration, publishing and fashion. We talk about the intersection of business and art, why pushing the business side hard and being insanely vision-oriented is one key to success.

We explored how becoming a mom has changed the way she works and creates and lives. And we talk about her forthcoming book, what it’s all about, what inspired her to write and illustrate it…and he she ended up writing a book in the first place.

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines (available for pre-order!)

May 29, 2013 11 Comments

I’m thrilled to announce that my book Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines is available for pre-order (official release this September). I illustrated 50 of the most legendary female characters in all their captivating beauty and hand lettered quotes from their dialogue. Meet these heroines, befriend them, and in the process, perhaps learn about yourself. Whether you’ve read some or all of these stories, I hope you enjoy gazing into the eyes of all of the powerful, damaged, beautiful, and incandescent women in my book. I hope you follow them back to their original stories and come to see them in your own way, too.

Also, please “like” the Well-Read Women Facebook page and I’d be so curious to find out who your favorite female character in literature is and what she means to you if you’d like to share in the comments.

It’s a beautiful package with cloth spine, de-bossed title, and gorgeous 4-color printing. I hope you love it!

The Shiny Squirrel look book sneak peek

May 28, 2013 1 Comment

I recently had the pleasure of collaborating with my friend Jessica Goldfond of The Shiny Squirrel, a NY based PR company and showroom representing the most incredible jewelry designers (in demand around the world and in publications like Elle, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar). I loved incorporating my illustrations into the beautiful and dark photos from the S/S 2013 look book. Here’s a little sneak peek. The rest will be released in July.

Photographer: Gregory Aune
Stylist: Heather Breen
Make Up: Laramie Glen
Hair: Takeo Suzuki

Will Barnet print in my apartment

May 24, 2013 No Comments

For a long time there’s been a space above our living room sofa. We had a mirror up there and then my husband got worried that it was too heavy and that it would fall somehow. So we took it down. As a space filler I washi taped up some lavender. Finally I found something to fill the space on the wall and in my heart. I’m in mad love with this piece. It’s a serigraph, edition of 500 Will Barnet completed in 1970 (hooray for Ebay). I had it framed in a simple white frame. Truly, I’m smitten.

Sorry for the serious dearth of posting lately. Work’s been hectic. Stick with me, I have lots to say in the coming weeks. Have a great weekend.
Love,
Sam

The Period Store

Good Life Project

Well-Read Women: Portraits of Fiction’s Most Beloved Heroines (available for pre-order!)

The Shiny Squirrel look book sneak peek

Will Barnet print in my apartment

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