Yuko Shimizu

If you are in UK, please pick up a copy of The Word, a music magazine for grown-ups. Since its redesign of June issue, monthly supplement CD has my illustration on the cover (confirmed up to August issue). The redesign was done by one and only Matthew Ball, who has been extra supportive of my work since he first hired me for Rolling Stone Magazineabout 4 years ago. Thank you Matthew! (And I will come visit you in Scotland soooooon.)My first illustration in Turkey has appeared on the cover of Photoshop Magazin (June issue) thanks to kindness of Sedef An.

In France, also for the first time, my illustration will be on the cover of Estapes: International, a magazine dedicated to art and design. The issue will come out in France and world-wide at the end of June. Thank you Céline.

And, please check out Press section for China’s CG Magazine article on ZUNE Arts. Thank you Queen.

And, if you are in New York area, I worked on an illustration over the weekend that will come out in tomorrow in New York Times Science section.

3×3 Magazine with an article on my work just came out.Thank you Marcos Chin for writing the article, and Kai Kiuchi for taking photos of my studio.

Probably one of the most exciting moment since I had started illustrating, my illustration has become the cover of Ryu Murakami‘s Tokyo Soup (English/Japanese title: in The Miso Soup) in Italy!! It is published from Mondadoriin paperback.I had read a lot of Ryu Murakami books when I lived in japan myself, and I had never even imagined that a day would come when I do his cover!

Ryu Murakami is one of the most respected contemporary writers from japan along with Haruki Murakami who is also one of my favorite writers (They are not related).

The book is beautifully designed with French flap, saffron color spine and emboss on the cover. If you are interested in purchasing you can get it online.

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!).

Edited by Angus Hyland, The Picture Book features the works of 80 contemporary illustrators. I have 6 pages in this book. Thank you Angus and Steven of Pentagramand Lori of Laurence King.