Editorial Illustrator and Freelance Designer working in Dubai, Berlin and Cape Town

Sasan is an Illustrator and Visual Artist with over 10 years of commercial experience in publishing, advertising and life art events. Graduating from the University of Ulster in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sasan was awarded a BA Hons degree in Visual Communication. Since then he has been commissioned by numerous ad agencies and publishers in the UK, Germany, South Africa and the UAE.

Strong contrasts, intricate line work, cross hatching and a minimalistic colour palette describe his style best. His work shows a strong sense of composition and attention to detail while maintaining a lose and sketchy feel. His tools of choice are ink pens and brushes as well as markers and acryclic paint.

Contact:sasan@sasanpix.com

Please don't use any of the images without contacting me first. All images copyright
Sasan Saidi 2012 sasan(at)sasanpix.com

Life drawing event at DIFC, Dubai Art Night Life drawing during Dubai Art Night 2013 at DIFC Gate Village. Dubai illustrators and artists gather to draw on grafitti walls...

Editorial illustration for Mahala South Africa

Editorial illustration Address Hotel

Pencil illustrations on mythology and spirituality

Tiger Translate Dubai - Dragon Art
Wall mural created during Tiger Translate 2013 at Media One Hotel in Dubai.

Piston Heads Exhibition Dubai
Customized motor sport helmets designed with Sharpie markers for War Child charity..

Magazine interview with AMOR
AMOR is a Dubai based Art and Culture magzine featuring illustrators and artists from the region.

   EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION
   Glory Holes of the Old Republic
   Friday, May 4th, 2012 by Trevor Kleinhans,    illustration by Sasan

You've been spotteeeed!!
Here we have Sasan Pix, Dubai based illustrator, at his creative best, wearing Baremelon's Nikotin t-shirt, that he designed.

Comic Con 2012 Dubai

COMIC CON DUBAI 2012
Sasan showcased his illustration portfolio and life art during the COMIC CON 2012 in Dubai. Located in the artist alley(A23)

EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION | MAHALA
Milton Schorr goes for a TB test and struggles to get proper treatment from the government health service. read the article

GROUP EXHIBITION
Genius is a new illustration exhibition that opens on Wednesday, 1st February 2012 at the Cartoon Art Gallery in Dubai, UAE.
Sasan supplied three illustrations for the exhibition (Africa, Roots and Mask)

genius exhibition for illustrators

The exhibition will showcase over 60 pieces of work that explore and challenge definitions of illustration, its origins and its future - from caricatures to commercial illustration to fine art and to work that is pushing the boundaries of the medium.

Virgin brochure

FAKIE II - Skateboard exhibition
Fakie is a skateboard art exhibition currently running at Tashkeel till 18th February. The first edition was in held in May and this year's edition includes 30 skateboards that were donated Skate Arabia.
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Old, worn-out and broken skateboards have all been turned into a piece of art (including a couple of clothing accessories) by 30 different artists based in the United Arab Emirates.

skateboard design

Koi & Jasmine	Metamorphosis	Tree of Life	Cruize Nikotin

In Japanese symbolism the koi represents perserverance in adversity and strength of purpose. The strongest koi swims upstream until it reaches the final waterfall, where it vaults into the mists and becomes a water dragon.	The design shows an ink illustrations which refers to "Metamorphosis" a book written by Franz Kafka. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking up to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect-like creature.	This t-shirt design was a initially a tattoo design for a friend which draws reference to the biblical story of Adam and Eve who ate an apple from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, causing their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.	"Plugged in"! This T-shirt was created for the upcoming Dubai rock band "Nikotin" which played live during the Middle East Comic Con 2012. Check out their music at www.nikotinmusic.com