Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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

GET A SMACK!

SMACK!is Warner Elektra Atlantic Music’s new sampler CD with 17 tracks of music they recommend to people with good taste in music.You can get it free (includes my front and back cover illustrations) from participating music stores nation wide. (Unfortunately not in NYC area.. ) Please ask the local stores near you.

Thank you Richard Jennings of WEA for his amazing ideas and great art direction, and Michelle Massi for wonderful design!

A BIT MORE ABOUT SUMMER PROJECTS

Since my last posting a few days ago, I had received some e-mails asking me about the shows and whether they will be in NYC. So here are a bit more of the details of the shows I am scheduled to be participating.

1) Paint Ball – hand painted Dunny toy charity show with KidRobot will be held on September 7th in New York. (I am painting it RIGHT NOW.)
2) Custom-made DJ slip mat show with Plus Et Plus will be opening on October 5th in New York, then the show is scheduled to travel to Tokyo and Hong Kong.
3) Goo Press‘s New book Bliss Express releasing party and opening at Gallery Nucleus in Los Angeles on October 7th.
4) Working with Robinhood Foundation and collaborating with Stefan Sagmeister on a mural project. It will be up in a public school in Bronx.
5) And, one more thing scheduled for early November which is not yet released.

I will post more details and schedules once schedule comes closer. Please stay tuned.

NORTH OF THE BORDER

Just got back from the north of the border…

Special thank you goes to very special people; wonderful and sweet Anita, Dick and their lovely swimming dog Lucy, the nicest guy with the best music taste; Gary, and just simply the best; Thomas.

Rest of the summer will be spent on working on work for a few shows opening in fall, and a mural project.

DON’T FORGET BRANGELINA…

And, Communication Arts Illustration Annual 47 is out now. What a surprise, I had one more illustration in the annual which I didn’t know about. Dirk and April of Premier submitted this Brangelina illustration for me. Thank you so much.
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