Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

Award winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts.

LITTLE BROTHER – A NEW BOOK COVER

Irene Gallo of Tor Booksis one of my favorite art directors to work with. It is not that I asked her directly, but from my work experiencs, I believe she thinks one of the most important part of art directing an illustrator is actually to pick the right illustrator for the right job. I know a few art directors like her. So, once I get picked, she is never fussy or picky about what I do. This is when we (illustrators) do our best job, I think. It is always nice to be trusted and given freedom because of the trust.Anyways, I just recently finished a project with her for this book cover Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. Irene just posted an interesting behind-the-scene story of designing the cover. Also Cory himself posted a really kind comment on the cover as well. Thanks to you both, and everyone who was involved in designing the book.

Little Brother will be out in Spring.

BERLIN –– VON ERLENBACH ART SCHOOL VIDEO AND MORE

I am back from Berlin. Big thanks to everyone who were so nice to me, including; Monika and Katrin Aichele for keeping me great company, Agata Nowicka of Exklusiv for coming all the way from Warsaw, Michael Okraj for giving me a Berlin city tour, and Hendrik Hellge of Die Gestalten for coming to see me and giving me an advance copy of Illusive 2.Monika and I went to a wonderful Von Erlenbach Art School to give lecture and crit. As an art school instructor myself, I always love to see how art education system varies in each country and try to learn something from it. It was a great experience. Thanks so much!

And YES, I am always open to be invited for lectures and guest crits. This year, I was very fortunate to visit art schools not just in the US but also in the UK, Denmark and in Germany. Hopefully, more places to visit in 2008! Travel and meeting people in different places is how I get inspired to create and teach.

YUKO SHIMIZU STUDIO WILL BE CLOSED

I will be gone from Friday, November 16 to Monday, November 26. I will not be able to return calls or answer e-mails till I come back. Thank you and have a happy Thanksgiving!

MAJOR UPDATES ON THE SITE

I was finally able to spend a day updating my site!

People often ask me if I do my own website updates. The answer is YES. (And I have actually even built this site from scratch all by myself, not that it is a fancy site.) Well, that is why this site did not get update for almost two months. I was totally swamped and had no time (physically and psychologically), yikes. But I do LOVE doing maintenance and updates to my site so I cannot think of having anyone else do it for me!

More new images were added to the ILLUSTRATION SECTION, and I also finally revised AWARDS page which I was lazy enough to have left it alone for about a year, oops..

TURKISH MAGAZINE FEATURE

I got an 8 page feature in Turkey’s Photoshop Magazine. Thank you so much Sedef for this. Good luck with your studies!

HOLTS MEN’S CATALOG

In Canada, please check out upscale department store Holts Renfrew‘s fall men’s fashion catalog. There is a section about space travel which I illustrated for.Thank you Concrete Design for a fun project and great design.

More illustrations will be posted very soon. Sorry! I know I keep saying this.. I am just completely swamped right now, but I will post more, maybe little by little. Please stay tuned.

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