Thursday, June 9, 2022

Artist of the Day, June 9, 2022: Yuko Shimizu, A Japanese illustrator (#1591)

 Yuko Shimizu, is A multi-award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City.  Yuko is an instructor at The School of Visual Arts and has almost 20 years of experience illustrating.
Her work includes multiple disciplines; from pages of The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The New Yorker to WIRED,  covers for DC Comic, Penguin, and Scholastic, advertising for Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Universal Pictures, SONY, Paramount, MTV, Nike, Hasbro, and Target, to name a few.

Additionally, she has collaborated with the Smithsonian Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Library of Congress. In 2020, collaboration with Artechouse brought her drawings to large-scale interactive experiences.

Yuko is a two-time Hugo Award nominee (2019, 2020), has won more than 15 medals from the Society of Illustrators since 2004, and was recently awarded the Caldecott Honor (2021), one of the highest awards for picture books, for her work on the children’s book The Cat Man of Aleppo (Penguin, 2020).  Yuko was also chosen as one of the “100 Japanese People the World Respects” by Newsweek Japan in 2009.

FUN FACT: Illustration is actually Yuko’s second career.  Although art has always been her passion, she had initially chosen a more practical path of studying advertising and marketing at Waseda University and had a career in corporate PR for 11 years before moving to New York to study art for the first time. Yuko graduated with MFA from SVA’s Illustration as Visual Essay Program in 2003 and has been illustrating and teaching since.

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 Ms. Yuko Shimizu
American Illustration call for entries, 2003 poster
Plansponsor Transition Management Survey, 2005
for TENNIS Magazine, 2006
2007 The Wild Wild Chase, 2007 large scale drawing
Surveillance State -EMBEDDED ART- Art in the Name of Security, 2009
 The Unwritten #41, 2012
Deloitte Business Trend Report, 2013
Green Source Climate Change Factor, 2013
The Shame of Guantánamo, 2013 Boston College Law Magazine
Little Nemo Dream Another Dream, 2014
2014 Variant poster
CAMP design: tech Festival, 2015
 Godard Pierrot Le Fou, 50th anniversary, 2015 variant poster
 Prometheus Eternal, 2015
The Nation 150th anniversary issue, 2015
Batman Returns, 2016 variant poster
China’s Space Domination, 2016  for Popular Science
El Niño, 2016 for Scientific American
Spy vs Spy, 2016 for Mad Magazine
Tolerance Traveling, 2017  poster exhibition
Barbarella, 2018 variant cover
Japanese Tales, 2018
Japanese Tales, 2018
Japanese Tales, 2018
PLANSPONSOR , 2018 mass messaging
Dracula, Motherfxxker, 2020
VOTE, 2020 Norman Rockwell Museum poster
 Godard Breathless, 2021 poster
 PRIMORDIAL issue 1, 2021 cover
Female football obstacles, 2022 for Sports Illustrated Germany

 

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