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Updates - Archive - Yuko Shimizu - page 46

Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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

YUKO “HEART”S PHILADELPHIA

Just got back from a few days stay in Philadelphia. Luckily, weather was perfect and I felt so fortunate having time to explore this beautiful old American city through a kind guide by Gina and Matt . Thank you for introducing me to fantastic chocolate and fantastic food!Thank you again to everyone at The University of The Arts for a wonderful show (see April 3rd posting for the details), also for great turn out for the lecture and workshop. Talking to seniors one on one was fun as well. I will be back Philadelphia!!

Posted some of the photos from the show.

SEE YOU IN PHILADELPHIA NEXT WEEK!

Done with your tax yet? (I finished it this week! Feel sooooo goooood!!!) Then, come spend an afternoon with me in Philadelphia next week.I will be coming to The University Of The Arts next week for lectures, workshops and a gallery opening.

This event was made possible though a kind invitation from Paul King, Matt Curtius, and everyone at the Illustration Department of UArts. Thank you thank you thank you.

Studio Closing Notice
Because of this business trip, Yuko Shimizu studio will be closed from April 8th to 13th. I will be back to the studio on Monday, April 14th. Thank you!

GOOD FRIDAY, ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY

Penelope Dullaghan is a Superwoman! She is a wonderful illustrator who illustrates full time, AND runs ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY on top of that to help young and aspiring illustrators. I am a full time illustrator myself, and trust me, I know how busy and crazy an illustrator’s life can be.About a month ago a client told me that Penelope recommended me to them. I had known her work, but we have never met or had any conversations before. How unbelievably nice of her to recommend someone she has never met?? So, I e-mailed to thank her, and we had a few correspondences, and then she asked me to be interviewed for her site. I have to say I am very very honored to be featured on this site run by this wonderful woman!!

UltimatePC IS AN ULTIMATE DREAM JOB

Another project I spent a lot of time on (This one, the whole month of December) has just come out. Please click on the above icon to see the whole project.These five images were created in collaboration with Microsoft and its’ new art and design site UltimatePC.

This was probably a closest to “the dream job” I could get as an illustrator. I was given complete freedom, Microsoft wanted me to create a series of five images, whatever I wanted to create! The only criteria was that I use the high-power Falcon FragBook PC provided by the client.

I have to admit that there were a bit of initial “hick-ups”, because I was completely illiterate in PC (= a long time MAC user). Now, I am a proud “bilingual” … well, at least working on images on Photoshop. Tiger billboard images (please read below) were created on this machine as well.

This project was made possible with the help of Matt Rota as an assistant (not for too long, he is too talented..) , and LaptopMD. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

TIGER BEER AD CAMPAIGN KICKS OFF

If you are in London area, you may have seen some of these posters already. Singaporean Tiger Beer’s new advertising campaign kicked off officially on March 10th.I spent almost all of the first two months of 2008 working on this campaign, often working 15-17 hours a day, 7 days a week, creating as many as 50 sketches. I am glad to see that they are now officially out, and so far, getting good responses.

This campaign will appear in six major UK cities. By June, you will see them blown up into billboards popping up here and there. Ad agency for this project is CHI and Partners.

I will post them to the illustration section soon along with all the other belated postings.

For now, you can see larger size images and read about the details of the campaign through these links.

ADVERTOLOG
BRANDREPUBLIC


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March 17, 2008

Just added 4 images to RECENT ILLUSTRATION SECTION.

HOW INTERNATIONAL DESIGN ANNUAL

HOW MAGAZINE‘s 2008 International Design Annual just came out.3×3 MAGAZINE issue in which my work was featured has won Merit in Editorial Category. Yay!

Congratulations to Editor, Art Director and Designer Charles Hiverly, and everyone who worked on this issue including my dear friend Kai Kiuchi, photographer for my feature article.

BOOK SEASON IS HERE!

Posted above are some recently published books. How exciting, it feels like everything is coming out at the same time! Because of this, I quickly organized PRESS SECTION and added them as well as some old press and sample page spreads as links. Check it out.
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