Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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

A GREAT LOOKING BOOK FROM CHINA!

So much art is happening in China right now. I just got this exciting magazine Plugzineissue No.2 from Beijing and it is REALLY good looking!I have four spreads in this collection of drawings by 39 mainly Asian artists from around the world.

The magazine is a set of two books, one for mainly hand-drawn works and another for mainly vector based drawings, printed on different stocks to match each work style, and it even comes with a complimentary sketchbook for those who got inspired. What a wonderful idea!!

Those who are in China and Hong Kong, please get a copy before the limited edition of 2,000 get sold out!!!

(it may be hard to get outside of Asia. You may try contacting Plugzine directly.)

FOR THOSE WHO ARE TEACHING ILLUSTRATION

Also this book came out a while back, and I didn’t have a chance to mention it before. At the end of the school year, it is a good time to introduce this to you. Teaching Illustrationis a great resource for college and masters level instructors.In this book, I spoke about my senior business/marketing class, which just ended for this school year.

Teaching illustration is published by Allworth Press, Edited by Steven Heller and Marshall Arisman (my MFA professor!).

STUFF… #2

We have lovely Wendi Koontz as a studio-mate for six weeks while Katie is away becoming a big star (?) in the land of rum and cigar.

Big “Thank you!” goes to two guest speakers for my class: SooJin Buzelli of PLANSPONSOR, as always for giving great tips and encouraging students, Max Bode for being a great example for someone so young and so focused both in art direction and illustration.

STUFF…

Just finished adding 5 new illustrations to the site. Between January and April when I teach 2 classes at SVA I can seldom find time to update my site, or do anything else other than work. I am sure this site gets updated more often once school year ends. Sorry!

So, for the same reason, I had to turn down everyone who contacted me to do interview for school project. As a teacher myself, I wish I can help students as much as possible, but it has just been impossible. I am hoping to add FAQ section mainly for students sometime in near future. Thanks so much for understanding.

GUEST LECTURE WEEK!

For the first three years in my illustration career I was pretty much stuck inside my studio all the time, I told myself last year that I will start traveling more and visit different schools in different areas.

So, as a part of my ongoing “resolution” I flew up to Syracuse for a day last week to give a lecture at Syracuse University. Weather in Syracuse was beautiful, but it was a blizzard at La Guardia, I got stuck inside a plane parked at the airport for more than two hours and almost missed my lecture! I have to thank Jen Betton for all the arrangement and extra work because of my delay.

And, I was invited to School of Visual Arts MFA Illustration today. It was such an honor to get invited back to where I graduated, and by my favorite professor Mirko Ilic. And thank you Kim Ablondi for all the arrangements.

ILLUSTRATION SECTION FINALLY UPDATED!

I wasn’t gone, I wasn’t slacking off, I was just insanely busy! After getting e-mails from people asking why certain illos are not on the site yet, I finally updated myvillustration section, and this time, there are 11 illustrations all at once, including the ones from a while back which I was meaning to post and hadn’t had chance to.

And YES, the images you wanted are on the site. Please use them as your desktop wallpaper.

SHOWS AT SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS

Editorial and Book show just opened at Society of Illustrators and I have three pieces in this show. Congrats for my ex-roommate Jamesfor his gold medal!Advertising and Institutional show will open on March 30th. Buddy Fuchs is receiving a gold medal! And I will be receiving silver medal for this piece on the right. Thank you so much judges. I am excited!

I’M BACK, I’M BACK!

After crossing the Atlantic four times in one month, I am finally back to my studio here in NYC!

Since my web site had been in complete silent for one month, I updated three new images today to my illustration page. I will update more very soon.

ENGLAND, ENGLAND

I will post more about the amazing business trip to England soon, but for now, you can see some of the photos from The Illustrating Gallery in Stroud here.

I have to thank a lot of people who had helped me during this trip. Super special big thank yous go to: Oliver Jolf of The Illustration Gallery for having me in the show and arranging my trip, Stephen Braund of University College Falmouth Illustration Authorial Practice MA for inviting me to lecture and for wonderful Cornish Cream Tea, Adrian Johnson for driving this stranger out to Stroud, Olivier Kugler and Julie for letting me stay and taking me around, and my old friend Rika F. for coming to see me all the way from Munich!

DATE
All