ASHKAHN Studio + Co. is the studio of artist, designer and all around Bon Vivant, Ashkahn Shahparnia (pronounced Ash-Kawn-Shaw-par-neeyah). Founded in 2009, the studio creates exciting & conceptually based projects in print design, music package design, apparel design, typography, accessories and product design.
Ashkahn was born in 1984 and received his B.F.A. in Fine Arts from Otis College of Art & Design. In 2010, Ashkahn was nominated for Print Magazine's "Top 20 Under 30" new visual artists. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Available for projects, please inquire here
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Say hello, say goodbye:
by email : a @ ashkahn.com
by cell : 310 / 567 / 5390
by aim : poplocktiludrop
by facebook : add me
or sign the guest book here
for design licensing inquiries, please e-mail: studio @ ashkahn.com
for internship opportunities, please e-mail: studio @ ashkahn.com
to join AFCA™ (Ashkahn Fan Club of America) go here
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Location:
Some words:
"Ashkahn clearly creates work that he likes which is the reason I like it
too and why I suspect many other people will like it as well".
- Stefan Sagmeister
""Ashkahn is 100% hot-head. Hire him for sure, but keep him away from your daughters."
-James Victore
"His playfully bold aesthetic reduces complex visuals into a kind of Zen koan- if the omniscient monk standing atop the mountain had a sense of humor, that is. Unusual textures, bright colors, quirky ideas, personified text, meld together, connecting idea to image in a hyperspectra rainbow bridge. Shahparnia’s works are like well-crafted pop songs: fun, punchy, and impossible to get out of your mind—belying the virtuosic and well-studied orchestra conductor waving his magic wand behind the façade."
-Sasha Lee (Editorial Director at Beautiful Decay Magazine)
"Bold reds, banana yellow and kelly greens bedeck his work in a manner that calls to mind Babara Kruger on nitrous oxide."
- Sylvia Adams (Evil Monito Magazine)
"Ashkahn has been heralded as the artistic hope of his generation."
- David Lindstrom
"Nice to see some simple unaffected work."
-Rebecca Wolkenstein
"This kid is it!"
-Glenn O'Brian (Interview Magazine)
"His work is sort of an irreverant Andy Warhol meets So Cal: its fun/cool/iconic."
-Jenna Kozel (Critic)
"Make noise, Ashkahn. We need to hear you."
-Brian Collins (COLLINS NY)
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Selected Client List:
2K T-shirts
ABC
Capitol Records
Circa
Color Magazine
Contagious Magazine London
Dangerbird Records
David Carson
DFA Records
Element Skateboards
EMI
Ghostly International
Killawatt Music Limited
Mistress Creative
MUN 2
NBC
Obey Giant
Paper Magazine
Pinkberry
Poketo
Readymade Magazine
Studio Nommo
Super Superficial London
TBWA Chiat Day
URB Magazine
Urban Outfitters
Vice Magazine
Warp Records
YouWorkForThem
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Upcoming Publications:
Stuck Up Piece of Crap, RIZZOLI
Dot by Dot, A book of Screenprints, Princeton Architectural Press
The Underdogs, Beautiful Decay Publishing
100 Tote Bags, Laurence King Publishing
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Credits
Photo above by Ye Rin Mok
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