Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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

American Illustration 32 winning works are now online

This year’s American Illustration 32 annual (due out in November) winning works are now online. from 8,742 pictures submitted, 369 were SELECTED to be in the book, and another 546 images were CHOSEN to appear online. I am honored to have three images in the book this year. (please see below)
See the slideshow of SELECTED images here
See the slide show of CHOSEN images here

I am also very excited that some of my current and recently graduated students were also selected and chosen to be in American Illustration this year. Big shout out to Jonathan Bartlett,  Boyoun Kim, Jonny Ruzzo, Federica Bordoni, Peter Diamond, Chemin Hsiao, Hyunyoung Kim and  Lily Padula!

Miyamoto Musashi, personal piece

Dutch Pension System, client: PLANSPONSOR EUROPE magazine, art direction: SooJin Buzelli
Tame Your Hair advertising campaign, client: JWT Hong Kong, art direction: Jimmy Lee

signing at Books of Wonder, NY, May 11

Kids and parents, and those of you grown ups who love picture books, come to Books of Wonder on Saturday, May 11.
I will be signing my first kids book Barbed Wire Baseball , and speaking a bit about what’s behind creating this book. Six other artists who recently published new kids book from Abrams are going to be there too.

Books of Wonder is located on 18 West 18th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, New York City. Event is on May 11 (Saturday), from 12:00noon to 2:00PM. Come stop by!

Communication Arts Illustration Annual 54

Hi everyone. I am back from Bogotá, Colombia, and back to my studio since mid-week. I will write a blog post about this amazing experience later!

For now, Communication Arts Illustration Annual 54 is officially out. I have a series of 5 illustrations from my new kids book Barbed Wire Baseball (AD: Chad Beckerman) accepted into the annual, as well as Dutch Pension System illustration for PLANSPONSOR Europe magazine (CD: SooJin Buzelli), and upcoming re-release of Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow book cover (CD: John Gall) also in the same annual. Big thank you to my ADs as well as the judges of this year’s competition.
Communication Arts‘ latest issue is available in bookstores and newsstands near you.

Barbed Wire Baseball receives Junior Library Guild Selection

The very first kids book I have illustrated is not yet out in bookstores, but it received a great news that the book was awarded the designation Junior Library Guild Selection for books publishes in spring of 2013.
I had talked about the creative process on my blog. Yes, it was a really tough and long process to illustrate a whole book from cover to cover. So,  receiving a recognition means extra special.  Thank you so very  much.

The book comes out very soon in early April. Pre-order on Amazon today. 

lecture at Art Institute of Boston, April 4

If you are in Boston area, I will be there next week on April 4 (Thursday) to visit Art Institute of Boston for a day.
Evening lecture is open to the public. Come stop by!
6pm, in Room N340 at the Art Institute of Boston  on 601 Newbury Street.

Thank you Art Institute of Boston for the invitation, and opening up the event to anyone who may be interested.

Computer Arts interview

British magazine Computer Arts’ new issue just came out, and though I have not seen the actual magazine yet, the full interview can be read online now.
there is one correction in the article, which is, I have not gone back to Japan since I moved to New York in 1999.
What am I talking about? Well, you can read it here.

Thank you Ruth-Ellen Davis and Julia Sagar!

Bogotá updates

Next month in April, I will be in Bogotá, Colombia for  Congreso Internacional de Ilustracion. Two day workshop still have 10 most slots, first come first served bases. Please check their website for details and to register.
Hope to see you in Bogotá in April!

UPDATES (March 22, 2013): workshop is now officially sold out. Thank you and see you in about a month.
Though the workshop is sold out, I will also be doing a lecture and a panel with fellow illustrator and friend Leo Espinosa. You can still get tickets for the conference, so please do come by! More details here

 

 

Barbed Wire Baseball in NYT Book Review (and new interview)

So excited to have the upcoming kids book Barbed Wire Baseball (writer: marissa Moss, Abrams) reviewed in tomorrow’s New York Times Book Review. Very small, but a fantastic review. I am extremely honored. Read the full reviews of upcoming kids books in theme of baseball and basketball Bookshelf: Bats and Baskets here, Slide show here.  You can see some of the pages from my book here.

Also, you can check out a new interview on me just released in a Romanian architecture blog Seeders Report. Thank you Anca.

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