Yuko Shimizu

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

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Scientific American – Gender Myth –

Scientific American Special Issue: Sex and Gender, September 2017

Feature opener and spot illustration for gender myth story: Promiscuous Men, Chaste Women and other Gender Myths, written by Cordelia Fine and Mark A. Elgar
To come up an image of ‘eden’, the forest is inspired by jungle paintings by Henri Rousseau

art direction: Michael Mrak and Jason Mischka