Samantha Hahn first became enthralled with illustration as a little girl growing up in Manhattan. She loved nothing more than drawing all day.

It was natural that Samantha would study illustration and earn her BFA (Syracuse University). She also loves teaching art so she studied art education receiving an MA (Columbia University). She now lives in Brooklyn with her family doing lots of freelance illustration and teaching art to kids.

Her work has been featured in various publications and materials such as: Glamour Magazine, Bust Magazine, Craft Magazine, Faesthetic Magazine, Mankind Magazine, Fashion 156, Blanket Magazine, Hyphen Magazine and Kong Magazine to Vaute Couture, Victoria's Secret, Saatchi & Saatchi and St. Martin's Press. It can also be seen on diverse surfaces  from t-shirts, cards and journal covers to plates, wall graphics and cushions. Some clients include: Barnes & Noble, Hallmark, Galison, Te Neues, American Greetings,  Shirt.Woot, 2k by Gingham, Chikara, ipop, Loxii and Freddy & Ma.

From time to time she shows her work in a fine art capacity including group shows "Lady" at Charles Nolan and 20/10 at Gallery Hanahou. She also participated in Berlin based Bilderklub, daily drawing archive, as a guest artist. Her work is available in her etsy shop, Shiny Squirrel shop and Little Paper Planes.

In 2007 Samantha started a blog called Maquette to feature projects and ideas. It has grown to a platform presenting inspiring art and design from around the world including her own projects. With 20,000 readers a month Maquette and Samantha have garnered praise from Daily Candy, Real Simple Magazine online, Design *Sponge, Decor8, Oh Joy and other design and art taste makers.

Samantha's art has been featured in art and design books as well, including Coolhunting by Marta Dominguez Riezu (Parramon Publishing) and Print and Pattern by Bowie Style (Lawrence King Publishing).

Samantha Hahn's illustration is recognizable by delicate pen work, dreamy colored inks and watercolor and feminine subjects. She is inspired by vintage fashion photography, nature and Brooklyn.