Me Talk About Books
Spoke with readersvoice.com about books, art and illustration. That was a nice change of topics. Thank you, Simon Sandall.
February 21, 2006
The Society of IllustratorsEditorial and Book show will open on March 3 (Fri) . Opening party is between 5:30 and 8PM at Museum of American Illustration at 128 East 63rd Street. I will have four pieces in this show including this image I did for PLAYBOY that had received Gold Medal. The show will be up for about a month.My e-mail server was down between Feb. 19 and 20. I have lost most of the incoming messages during those two days. If you were expecting to hear back from me and not receiving reply, I may not have gotten it. Please send me your message again. Thank you!
Some new press…Thank you Computer Arts China (right) for doing a nice 6 page feature on my work in their December 2005 issue. Thank you Sue!
Another thanks goes to The Spy Magazine of Cadiz, Spain(far right) for their nice 5 page feature article on my work in their January-February 2006 issue. Thank you Arantxa!
There is also an interview article in Cultura Creativa 1492 (November 2005), an advertising magazine in Argentine, regarding “Target and New York” advertising campaign of past summer.
When I have a bit more time to rework on my web site, I am planning on making a “press page” to put all these articles and interviews in one place. I have been receiving so many e-mails from new illustrators and art students asking questions. A lot of them are on same topics. As my work gets busier and busier, it gets harder and harder to write back. Hope I can build a page to help answer a lot of their questions.
January 13, 2006
Happy (well, belated,) new year! After more than a month and half of laziness (OK, I was not lazy, I was just busy!), I finally updated my recent illustration page. If you have time, please take a look. Seven new illos are up, and also re-worked on awards section (because I got so excited for my gold medal, he he.)A new book “it’s A Matter Of Illustration” (published by Victionary) (left) is out now and I have six pages in there. Let me tell you that it is a stunning looking book, and I am not saying this because I am in. Beautifully and carefully designed, with that silver ink really adds to it. My mentor and MFA professor Mister Mirko Ilic and my high school buddy Tatsuro Kiuchi are also featured. I will post some images from the book some other time.
Drew a small portrait for Joshua Gorchov, a good friend, great illustrator (left). PASTE magazine needed his portrait for the contributors’ page and he wanted me to draw him instead of using photo. Is it in the recent issue?, I think..Spring semester has just started at SVA this week. I am teaching two classes this semester (second year illustration and forth year promotion and marketing). Thank you Carol Fabricatore and all her students of MFA Illustration as Visual Essay program at SVA for inviting me as a guest lecturer today. I had FUN.Some new illustrations… SPIN (January), Premiere and Outside (both February)
November 22, 2005
First of all, Happy Turkey Day to everyone in the US.
3×3 magazine of illustration has just come out with their new issue, and my dear studio-mate Marcos Chin is a featured and cover artist of this issue. I am also proud to announce I had an honor to write his article. (left: cover by Marcos Chin) just in case if you had wondered about my bio, yes, you are right, somehow it got written wrong. I wish I had 13 years of experience in illustration… and no, I had not worked as an illustrator in japan, I was in PR.
Once again, thank you so much for buddy and ex-roomy James Jean for giving a talk to my class at SVA today. Also big thank you to two other guest lecturers who kindly came to my class to speak this semester; Monika Aichele and Joshua Gorchov. You guys all rock!
October 25, 2005
Spanish lifestyle magazine Monocläb issue 19 (October) has picked one of the pieces from my alphabet book project as their latest cover (left). Look for this magazine at stores in Barcelona and Madrid. Thank you Eva!”The best of illustration from 2004″ American Illustration 24 will be published in November. I will have a two pieces selected to be in the book. (I will post the winning images on the site soon.) There will be a publishing event in New York on November 4th.
Also “Illustration Now!” has its launching event and signing at Taschen Store in Beverly Hills, California on November 10 (6-8PM). I won’t be able to attend, but if you are in the area it should be a fun event to swing by.
Also “Illustration Now!” has its launching event and signing at Taschen Store in Beverly Hills, California on November 10 (6-8PM). I won’t be able to attend, but if you are in the area it should be a fun event to swing by.
Some new illustrations: The New Yorker (Oct 31), NYLON, Money, DOMINO, Men’s Health, This Old House, Business 2.0 (all November), and FORTUNE international edition India issue out now.
October 1, 2005
Wow, where did the time go? It is already October…Biggest news right now probably is that Taschen’s “Illustration Now!” finally comes out this month and three of us from SHY Studio (Marcos Chin, John Hendrix and me) are featured as “150 top illustrators of the world”! We are very very excited, needless to say.
Some new illustrations are in: The New Yorker (Oct 3), FORTUNE (international edition, Oct 17), Fast Company, DOMINO, PLANSPONSOR, Storage (all October), Illustration section of this site will be updated as soon as I find some extra time…
September 16, 2005
It is September. The New school year has just started. I am teaching a second year “Principles of Illustration” class this semester at SVA. Also, I just visited Pratt Instituteas a guest lecturer for the first time on September 15. Thank you Minh Uong (instructor, art director of Village Voice) for not just giving me the very first illustration job about three years ago but also inviting me to his Senior Portfolio class!Hello Taiwan! Design magazine X FUNS #19 has 8 page feature on my work, along with newly created cover. I also designed the page and created the logo. Thank you Tytee Tan, editor of X FUNS, for the wonderful opportunity. (more will be posted soon.)
Have you started Christmas shopping? I contributed a piece for NPR’s 2006 calendar along with 13 other artists including Whitney Sherman and John Ritter. purchase this lovely calendar, and contribute to National Public Radio.
Other recent illustrations are: The New Yorker (Sep 12 and Sep 26 issues), LA Times Book Review Cover (August 28 issue), Domino October issue, Fast Company (September and October issues), and New York Walker every two weeks as usual.
August 15, 2005
James Jeanis in the same campaign. Other illustrations out now are; DOMINO and Men’s Health (both September issue), Money (August and September issues) are also out.
August 6, 2005
Just finished working with X Funs, a design magazine in Taiwan, who are now kindly editing a feature article on my work for their next issue #19, scheduled to come out at the end of the month in Taiwan and other Chinese speaking countries. I also illustrated and designed their cover which was such a fun experience. Also working on three separate book projects in UK, Italy and Hong Kong now.
Thank you everyone in Seattle and Portland who had sent me sweet e-mail messages regarding The Stranger and Mercury covers. I had written back everyone, but some of the e-mails bounced back. So here is my open thank you note for those who hadn’t gotten my message.
July 29, 2005
July was a big transition month for SHY Studio. We had to say good-bye to “H of SHY” John Hendrix, and said hello to Marcos Chin. We had also moved, well, just on the same floor of the same building. But we will be keeping the name “SHY Studio”, John!Portland Mercury and its’ sister magazine The Stranger of Seattle had a big Japan issues (july 28 issue), and they selected my personal piece (originally created for Semi Permanent Design Conference in Australia) to be on the cover. Please pick them up if you are in the area.