JUNK is in San Francisco /  by sarah

it feels so good hamdolilah to have my book "JUNK" in my favorite little place in san francisco, the museum of art and cartoon :)

The museum of art and cartoon is located in 655 Mission st. 94105 San Fransisco CA

From editorial cartoons to comic books, graphic novels to anime, Sunday funnies to Saturday morning cartoons, the Cartoon Art Museum has something for everyone.

what they said about their mission:
The Museum’s key function is to preserve, document, and exhibit this unique and accessible art form. Through traveling exhibitions and other exhibit-related activities — such as artists-in-residence, lectures, and outreach — the museum has taken cartoon art and used it to communicate cultural diversity in the community, as well as the importance of self-expression.




this post is important /  by sarah

i finished my 22 years old, last year with a broken heart. Although it was pretty ugly but A LOT of things happened .. 

the ups were UPS and the downs were DOWNS.

- I jumped from a stage to another stage </3
- I  went to dubai, Leo Burnett Academy
thats me in a cow print hehe.

-i went to italy with my favorite best friend to take
a street photography workshop

-had my senior exhibition in college

-graduated


-had some extra "family love"




-beach


-went to a7la balad fil3alam "cairo" to visit my sis
-went for black hair
-sleepovers


-went through shit


-decided to create a book, over a turkish coffee

 -worked in destination Jeddah magazine

-went to hajj :,)

-published the book

 -decided to go study masters in san francisco with my best friends.


-applied

 -one of them got married and the other one changed her mind :/

-a lot a lot a lot of things happened, cant have it all in a post but i ended up going to san fran without my friends :( .. and now i'm focusing on work :) 









and fun :p


and today i turned 23 .. happy birthday to me.




Meet Reem AKA Lucy AKA safiyya /  by sarah


الإسم: ريم طيبة
العمر: نقطة
الإهتمامات: فيزياء و كوروشيه
شغلانتها: قريبتي المُفضلة
عندها خنطر و خنطور حقي يقولو كل شي، عشان كده تعرف كل حاجة يعني لو كرهتني يوم ..
عليا العوض
عندنا لُغة خاصة
و شكراً

a non-finished project /  by sarah

just like a lot of things on this planet, another non-finished project .. i'm not proud of that although its a tiny project but i've always said its not about the beginners its always about the finishers .. 
lets be positive and wish that this is the last non finished project in my life.. although i can still finish it bs 2afalt minnou.
me and few more artists started creating/taking pictures of arabic letters, each day one letter, and we had this hashtag #29dlc .. i didnt finish it but here's some photos.



ميم -مُسدس
 راء - رماد
 ألف - اصبع
 باء- بريتزلز
 غين - غريب

My struggle with my self portrait. /  by sarah

so i had a portrait assignment, and for some reason i decided to make it a SELF portrait, what i didnt know that its so freaking hard to draw yourself, because you're not just checking the photo reference you're checking the mirror as well and it drove me insane.
its hard enough to choose and perfect a technique and 
even harder to make it look like me.
i kept changing and changing until i reached 
semi satisfaction. i hope you love it.

and finally
photo reference by the amazing photographer Fahad Ayyad

NEW YORK /  by sarah

so i just got back from nyc, i was spring breaking 
and it was beyond amazing, i picked some random images to 
share my indescribable trip with you guys.
  lovely book by the awesome Nada Seet
 a spread from the awesome book by Tim Walker
 Pastis- french love
typography love 
I participated in Nada's project and i drew 
an octopus as my ideal dinner

and I met Steven Heller <3 - school of visuals art-NYC,Steven Heller is author and co author of many works on the history of illustration, typography, and many subjects related to graphic design. 
i LOVED new york but ...
i wouldnt wanna live there...
 

عزمي /  by sarah

في احد ضحك عليا و قللي اني اعرف اكتب .. و ساعات برضو اكتب من غير سبب .. كده بس احس انو لازم شوية اتكلم من غير ما احد يرد عليا .. يعني من الاخر لما ابغى اكلم نفسي لازم اكتب.... و احب اكتب في مدونتي زي ما ابغى ساعات عامي و سااعات فصيح و كده يعني
 .. ما علينا

استيقظت في يوم من الايام و انا ماشية ل التلاتة و عشرين .. و اتخذت قرار .. انا سوف اتغير .. "مش عايزة اعرف ناس كتير" سوف امحي كلمة "توقع" من قاموسي.. نعم لن اتوقع "شيء".. حدوث شيء .. او شيء من شخص ما ..و النتيجة سوف تكون "مش بطالة" اي شيء جميل و بسيط جداً سيسعدني لانني لم اتوقع الكثير .. واي شي تعيس سيحزنني قليلاً فقط لانني لم اتوقع العكس تماماً .. و هكذا .. " وبكده الحالة حتبقى عال العال" .. ياللسعادة

تسائلت كثيراً لماذا كل ما تحدثت الى نفسي .. تحدثت بالهجة المصرية .. و اخيرا بعد سنين من البحث و تحاليل البول و كده .. اكتشفت السبب .. السبب هو "عزمي" شخصية صغيرة حجمه اشبه بحجم حبة الفصفص البلدي .. يسكن مع كريات الدم الحمراء .. مصري و بيموت في مصر و بينتشر في جسدي كله .. زحاليق

يتبع .. يمكن




هوا ده عزمي

Did you check destination jeddah's last issue? /  by sarah

if you didnt see destination jeddah magazine- march issue which 
i designed its cover :D, go check it now because theres some pages about me and my book "junk" :)

the cover

lovely words by the lovely Rayyan Khayyat:
 
"Going through Sarah Taibi’s Junk
  It's a pleasant thing when someone from our community has written and published their own book, especially when it's from someone as young and creative as Ms. Sarah Taiba, *ahem* I mean Lastika. "Kinda bilingual" and wholly composed of her own illustrations, Junk is a messy collage-scrapbook of a diary to be shared. Part autobiography and part a letter to the world around her, Ms. Taiba uses clever expressions and black ball-point sketches to create this book of scattered ponderings and bittersweet musings.

         On a special Saturday over Turkish coffee with a skeptical friend, Ms. Taiba’s “brain was working in a sweet way…[she] could eat it.” She remembered some of her old scanned illustrations and decided to draw some more and maybe, just maybe, she could create a book *WHOA.* Her friend laughed, “Make a book?” Taiba said “Fine. I’ll make a book” Unfortunately, she sometimes finds her doodles in the trash and once in the kitchen garbage can. “MAMA WHY?!!!” Her wonderful mother replied “Sorry baby, I thought it was just junk.” That’s pretty much when Ms. Taiba realized she must fix and organize all of these penned thoughts and ideas. And although named Junk, to appropriately umbrella all of the randomness, the result is a disorderly harmonious and composed piece of work.

         The comical illustrations in Junk are visually striking, with a style that’s half political cartoon and half school-day doodles, but as the book progresses we gain more of an insight into what these stories are trying to tell us. Her quirky little characters seem to be fed up with the frivolities and contradictions of their society and are attempting to live through the perplexities of modernity and matters of questioning and understanding.  It’s as if they’re caught between a supposedly *real* but bizzare world and their own imaginary sensible one. Some of those one would meet along the way include the Lonely Ice-Cream Cone, Octopus Girl and a thieving ninja. Ms. Taiba also reconciles these illustrated conflicts with musical lyrics brightly come to life, whimsically detailed food recipes and more of what truly holds all of this clutter together. 

In the introduction, Ms. Taiba recounts the story of a girl who used to live in this curious purple bubble where everything seemed to be almost too special and ideal. She had some really colorful and feathery friends with her but somehow it just didn’t quite work out. And even though she now has to make her way through a bleak and thorny wasteland, far from the purple perspective she’s familiar with, she’s able to share some of the wonderful things she saw in there with some in what turns out! even better and *realer* friends. And her so-called junk is some of what she brought with her."

layout design by cutie basma filimban

 like Junk's page on facebook by clicking here

Amishka doing her thing /  by sarah

it all started end of 2011 in al balad when Sarah Mohanna Alabdali AKA Amishka called Nahla and I and said: lets go spray... we're all crazy so yeah we went there..
  and she sprayed for the first time her amazing piece 
of work which a lot of you might recognize ...

then finally in early 2012 she participated in Edge of Arabia 
with her artwork.
 
 i just love it .. and love her even more :D 
click here to check her craziness
and now i just saw this video and couldnt be happier <3
 click here to check it NOW