Sako Shahinian
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Sako Shahinian (b. 1980) is an Armenian-American illustrator whose artwork has been featured in System of a Down projects.
[edit] Biography
Sako was born in 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents. From a young age he showed interest in drawing. He attended Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, where he earned the opportunity to paint the Woody Guthrie Exhibit's main mural with Adam Dryden at the Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum in 1999.
In 2001, Sako worked on a book project with Serj Tankian from System of a Down. His artwork accompanied Serj's poems. In 2004, Sako went on to graduate from Art Center College of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration.
He has annually been illustrating System of a Down's "Souls Concert" poster. He created the new System of a Down logo in coalition with Velvet Hammer productions. In October 2005, his illustration of Jack Nicholson from the movie The Passenger was published in The New Yorker magazine. He has worked closely with a wide pallet of companies, designing CD covers, packaging material, creating corporate identities, and marketing print materials.
Also in 2005, he started his own clothing line called Rapt Clothing.
In 2006, Sako Shahinian hired former MySpace software engineer Levon Baronian to completely re-engineer and help re-design the SakoShahinian.com website, which was re-launched on April 7, 2006.
