COMMUNICATION ARTS FEATURE!
I am so excited that my work is featured in the one and only Communication Arts magazine. Please take a look at a newsstand near you or click the cover for preview. Big thank you goes to Rebecca Bedrossian.
FORMAT MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
I am finally coming out of “hermit” schedule which went on from January till…now. School year is over at SVA and my students are off to early “summer” vacation which gives me 4 months of time off as well.Friends from abroad are flying in on the perfect timing next week. Agata Nowicka from Warsaw, Thilo Rothacker from Stuttgart, and Monika Aichele from Berlin. Looking forward to spending some time with them!
And yes, I will take care of forever neglected Illustration Section of the site. Please don’t think I don’t have any new work. I have been working a lot, and that is why it hasn’t been updated.
New online interview is up now. I was able to talk about my serious obsessions with WNYC here, which was fun. Thank you Daniel Eckler, editor of Format, and writer Carmel Hagen.
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!
TIGER IN LONDON UPDATES
Some of my friends in the UK, including Olivier Kugler, I Love Dust, and my British Agent Jules sent me some photos of how Tiger Beer posters and billboardsare looking in London, so I wanted to share them with you.It is exciting to see my drawings blown up that big. At the same time it doesn’t seem real, because I am here in New York and I haven’t actually seen them.
Thank you so much guys for sending me these photos!!
SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS – ADVERTISING AND INSTITUTIONAL SHOW
Society of Illustrators’ 50th Annual Award Show – Advertising and Institutional Category –opens tomorrow.The show will be up till April 26th. I will have two pieces in this show; Microsoft ZUNE promotional poster and Dellas Graphics calendar image.
Also, just added 1 image to RECENT ILLUSTRATION SECTION.
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.
March 17, 2008
Just added 4 images to RECENT ILLUSTRATION SECTION.