Illustration for USC Rossier Magazine about Radical self care.
A New Tool for Educators Running On Empty
Identity-based, radical self-care practices can provide teachers with the tools they need to recharge. Link to Article
Illustration for Foreign Policy: “Accelerating Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Through Women’s Leadership.” Link to Article
Illustration for article written by Nadine Foty for Rethinking Schools Summer 2023 issue. Article about using traditional Palestinian stories within school curriculum to help both Palestinian and non-Palestinian children and educators rebuild the memory of the rich culture and history. Link to Article
Illustrations for Ford Foundation. “CREATIVE FUTURES is a series of 40 provocations by thinkers across the spheres of arts and culture, documentary film, and journalism unfolding throughout the fall of 2020.”
Art Director: Victor Ng
Web banners for Ford Foundation’s Internal Website
1- Getting Things Done
2- Our Offices
3- Our Staff
A personal piece created for Wandermag.design’s summer 2020 issue and the first issue of this magazine about art and inspiration.
This piece is titled ‘Round Midnight’ (inspired by Thelonious Monk’s piano composition) and it's about finding my inspiration through music and musings in nature... night or day!
11x17 limited edition prints on etching paper available on my online store at schalabi.com/shop
Illustration about friendship in love. Inspired by Aristotle’s quote: “Friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
Cover illustration for The Washington Post (Local Living Section) about how to trust your instincts to free yourself from overparenting.
July 16, 2020 issue
The following is an edited excerpt from parenting coach and columnist Meghan Leahy’s upcoming book, “Parenting Outside the Lines: Forget the Rules, Tap into Your Wisdom and Connect with Your Child.”
“Leaving that grocery cart was one of the best parenting decisions I had ever made, because, of course, the cart was just the cart, but leaving it in the middle of the aisle has come to mean so much more to me than that one simple act. It was my first lesson in how detrimental my overparenting was…”
Over bitter IPAs, I told him my mother was dying. (L.A. Times, L.A. Affairs, March 2021)
Illustration for a story about a mother and daughter on a parallel quest for love until one of them gets cancer.
I created this piece as part of The Resilience Project, a collaborative body of work about what’s getting us through this pandemic, curated by International Visions Gallery. I used this beautiful Spring Haiku by @nesrine_writes as a prompt. Please check out the online exhibition of this talented group of artists at invisionsarts.com.
While this Pandemic forced us to be in isolation, I found myself welcoming the opportunity to be still. Whether alone in my room or in nature, the time allowed for me to slow down and reflect on my fast-paced and bizarre life. In the lull and quiet of nature, my mind went back to my early days in Ghana and the tranquility that I felt when life was not about “doing” but simply about just “being.” Using my sister’s beautiful Haiku (below) as a prompt, this batik-inspired artwork is a visual interpretation of my time in nature and those reflections.
Spring Haiku
by Nesrine Shalabi
INSTAGRAM @NESRINE_WRITES
Spring comes stealthily
Flora and fauna unfurl
While we hibernate
October 2018 issue
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Illustrations for a feature on top leasing professionals, architects and debt/equity professionals under 30-35.
AD: Jeffrey Cuyubamba
October 2020 issue
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Illustrations for the annual feature on top leasing professionals, architects, and debt/equity professionals… during a pandemic.
AD: Jeffrey Cuyubamba
Step into the New Year with your best foot forward!
Illustration celebrating mothers as givers of life, nurture, and love.
Editorial illustration for Rethinking Schools Magazine for an article about navigating grief and uncertainty in the time of the pandemic. The article features a poem titled “Wash Your Hands” by Dori Midnight.
RS blog: https://rethinkingschoolsblog.com/
Rethinking Schools
Summer 2020 issue
Editorial illustration on prevention as the best medicine. Awareness illustration encouraging social distancing and quarantine during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
Illustration published in Washingtonian Magazine (November 2020 issue). Part of “Postcards from DC”, a series of postcards by a group of international illustrators representing how America in crisis looks from the outside.
Cover illustration for Rethinking Schools Magazine
Editorial illustration for Earth Day in the time of the pandemic. #constellation #earthishome #earthday #stayhome
Personal work (January, 2020)
After losing four anchors in five years, Stratford Square became the poster child for the retail apocalypse. Now it’s attempting an equally dramatic makeover.
Chicago Magazine
January 2020 issue
American Theatre Magazine.
September 2018 issue
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Cover illustration for an issue that focuses on stories of sexual harassment in theatre in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
AD: Kitty Suen
One of a series of illustrations for affirmations by Ani Trime, a Buddhist nun who passed away in 2016. She left a legacy of 52 affirmations, one for each week of the year. A project for Marlena Agency.
One of a series of illustrations for affirmations by Ani Trime, a Buddhist nun who passed away in 2016. She left a legacy of 52 affirmations, one for each week of the year. A project for Marlena Agency.
One of a series of illustrations for affirmations by Ani Trime, a Buddhist nun who passed away in 2016. She left a legacy of 52 affirmations, one for each week of the year. A project for Marlena Agency.
It will love you back!
Bust Magazine
Dec/Jan 2015 issue
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Article with tips about embracing and managing your hair type.
The Impact of the U.S. CLOUD Act
Litigation Journal
(American Bar Association)
Fall 2018 issue
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While the CLOUD Act provides innovative new approaches to some of the criminal investigation challenges posed by technology, it naturally also raises new questions and concerns.
Book cover design and illustration for a book about saving America's economic crisis.
Compassion for self, compassion for others.
Litigation Journal
(American Bar Association)
Winter 2018 issue
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Article about how a difference of opinion against the majority can be a positive.
Poster on equal wage for women.
Poster on sexual harassment.
Social awareness campaign poster for women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia.
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★ Chosen: American Illustration 31
Animated gif illustration inspired by The Beatles' song, A Day In The Life.
Cover illustration for Wine & Spirits Magazine (Feb. 2015 issue).
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Cover story about how vineyards are surprisingly able to create great zinfandel from very young vines.
Art Director: Michael Rush
Poster for Play Production.
Poster for Play Production.
Best of DC 2017 Cover Wrap illustration for Washington Post Express. 30 local businesses that were voted best of 2017 are hidden in the cover for readers to engage and find.
Art Director: Ellen Collier
Maximizing Efficiency and Minimizing Business Disruption
Litigation Journal
(American Bar Association)
Summer 2019 issue
Animated gif illustration about that Monday morning feeling!
Essay by Paula Fass | Aftenposten Innsikt | December 2016
A series of illustrations created for an essay by Paula Fass about the end of adolescence in the United States. The essay was first published by Aeon Magazine in association with Princeton University Press.
Art Director: Tine Skarland
Rise above the noise.
Westchester Magazine
April 2014 issue
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Article about leaving Philly for
a life in the suburbs.
Dancing cowboys and prancing pirates: Making beautiful music, WNC style.
By Nan K. Chase | WNC Magazine | July/August 2016
Editorial illustration for an article about a theater musician who is so taken by the plays on the stage that she cannot focus on her music in the orchestra pit.
Litigation Journal
(American Bar Association)
Summer 2017 issue
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Article about shortening the lengths of sentences for some federal crimes.
