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Updates - Archive - Yuko Shimizu - page 37

Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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


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PS96 BRONX MURAL FOR NY TIMES!

Yes, I am back in town. Xalapa was far. Door to door 16 hours each way. But it totally worth the trip. People were ridiculously nice, the town was beautiful rich with culture and filled with flowers and trees, and food was yummy.

I will be around till the next business trip in about one week. And, here are some updates.

PS 96 mural got a nice write up on last Saturday (March 14)’s New York Times. Also, more write up on project organizer Pentagram’s blog. Big thank you with respect to Mr. Michael Bierut.


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YUKO ON KANYE WEST BLOG? WHAT??

Yes, it is for real. Friend Tim Leung told me that I got a write up on Kanye’s blog. Here is the link. So you know I am not lying.


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YUKO IS OUT OF TOWN

I am out of the country to spend some time with the Mexican designers and illustrators at Amarillo in Xalapa, Mexico. If you are in the area and interested in coming to my talk, it is open to public. Information is on their website.

I will be back to the studio on Tuesday, March 17th in the afternoon. Thank you!


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March 9, 2009

On my blog, I posted a back story and process behind the SPECTRUM piece. If you are interested, please check it out. I am still getting used to blogging, but it is going to get better and smoother.

SPECTRUM 16 SILVER MEDAL IN ADVERTISING CATEGORY!

Thank you all the judges, an awesome client Microsoft who gave me total freedom, my agent for getting me this job and Matt Rotafor assisting me with coloring.I just found out I won a silver medal from Spectrum 16.When you see my work, you probably don’t think about fantasy or sci-fi, but I was a huge fan growing up, drooling over Frazetta, Boris Vallejo and Jeffrey Jones, reading Moorcock and C.L. Moore. To get accepted into this award is a huge honor and something I wish I can go back in time and tell the 13 year old me.

On the right is the one and only Donato Giancola announcing the awards. Watch the video here, and see all the results here.

XALAPA, MEXICO, SEE YOU NEXT WEEK!

Friends at Amarillo Centro de Deseñoin Xalapa, Mexico sent me over these photos. They are in the middle of getting ready for the show and lecture that’s happening next Saturday, March 14th.I LOVE Mexico, but haven’t gone back there in more than 20 years. I am really excited (and a bit nervous) to fly down next week.

If you are near by, come meet me! Looking forward to seeing you there.

Details are on Amarillo site. You can RSVP on Facebook too.

THE UNWRITTEN

OK, so I had posted that teaser before, but it is now official. The Unwritten, by Mike Carey and Peter Gross, the new series all the graphic novel fans have been waiting for, will be released in May from DC Vertigo.I am teaming up with this genius duo, along with the fantastic editor Pornsak (he was also my editor for The Sandman series), to create covers for the series. The first cover is also on the cover of the latest PREVIEWS (right). You can see it in the comic book stores near you.I have just finished the second cover and got the approval today (yay!), and just about to start working on the third cover. In the meantime, Peter is about five pages to get the third issue done. (I think he is working on the best scene of the issue right now!) I have read about five issues worth of script now, and I have to say it is really gripping. I am hooked. I bet you will be too.


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THE SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS SHOW – advertising, institutional and uncommissioned category –

..is opening tomorrow. So, New Yorkers, come check it out. I have a few pieces in this show: some from Microsoft UltimpatePC project and also that AIDS prevention poster for a French client that never got published (too long a story to write here..)

Opening reception is on Friday, March 6th.  See you there.

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