Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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

AND, MORE JUDGING…

Editorial illustrators, Society of Publication Designers’ SPOTS competition call for entries is out now. Download the form here. I know it is the last minutes notice, but we would love to judge your great spot illustrations, so please apply!

Also, The Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition’s first round is now done. Winners will be notified to each school, and awards will be decided by judging the actual winning pieces at the end of the month. Congratulations to the winners and good luck!

I want to thank all the 25 jury members, especially to those whom I invited who accepted to participate. Some of them came all the way from West Coast. Illustrators: Shawn Barber, Harry Campbell, Joshua Gorchov, Lizzy Rockwell, Chris Sickels a.k.a. Red Nose Studio, Autumn Whitehurst and Bruce Waldman. Also nice meeting you, Adam Rex. Art directors: SooJin Buzelli of PLANSPONSOR and Henry Yung of Fast Company. Thank you so much everyone!

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.

February 12, 2006

Just finished judging design category for The Art Directors Club‘s 85th Annual Awards, and I have to say it was one of the most inspiring and exciting experiences. Thank you so much for everyone at ADC for their hardwork, fellow judges for being so inspiring and kind, and Mr. Brian Collins of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide for choosing me to be there. It was also great to see wonderful designs from Japan, and I was happy I was able to help translate some of the works. The results will be announced in spring.

Some new illustrations… GQ, Outside, Domino (all March), Mother Jones (March/April), CIO Decisions (January) and Realms of Fantas.

December 7, 2005

Art Directors Club‘s 85th Annual Awards registration is now open. Please go to ADC web site to enter. I am scheduled to be on the jury this year.

Also good luck to all the illustration majors in 4 year colleges and universities in the US for Society of Illustrators Annual Student Scholarship Competition open now as well. I am on the committee this year. We have really good jury members all looking forward to judge your work. Contact your college department for details.

Some new illustrations.. The New Yorker (12/5 issue), Domino and PLANSPONSOR (both December), Readers Digest (January)

June 1, 2005

On June 9 (Thu) I will be attending Art Directors Club‘s Illustration Portfolio Reiview with studio-mate John Hendrix and our friend Patrick Dorian. 97 other talented illustrators and we will be showing our portfolios for review by creative professionals. If you are in creative field in position to (possibly) hire illustrators, come see us! Please RSVP with ADC.

April 7, 2005

Society of Illustrators 47th Annual Awards Institutional/Advertising/Uncommissioned Show opens tomorrow at Society of Illustrators Museum of American Illustration at 128 E 63rd St. in New York City.The show will be up till May 7. I will have two pieces in this show.
Thank you so much everyone for coming to Psionic Distortion opening last Friday. Also, thank you everyone at Plum Blossoms, especially the curator Tim Evans, for making this awesome show happen!If you are in NY area, don’t miss it! It is a must see! The show will be up till April 30.Some new illustrations are: Rolling Stone April 21 issue, VIBE and Premiere (both May issue), Financial Times Magazine (UK) #100 (4/9) and #101 (4/16), Plan Sponsor and The Progressive (both April), Menswear (Spring). New York Walker #18 will be out next Thursday.

March 17, 2005

“Art twin” Paul Pope and I are working on some projects together.1) We will both be in a group show in April in New York.
“Psionic Distortion” Curated by Tim Evans April 2-30, 2005
Opening April 1, 2005, 6-9 pm
Plum Blossoms New York 555 West 25th Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY 10001

2) Paul’s “100%” collection just came out from DC Comics, I colored his beautiful cover illustration.

March 10, 2005

Happened to be in Australia or New Zealand? Semi-Permanent Design Conference is happening this weekend.  Once again I am participating for Yen Magazine’s Curvy events and the bookas part of this conference. Sales from the gallery show will be used as grant for talented Australian female art students.  I am happy to be a part of this event again!New illustrations: when you fly American Airline, check out full page illo in “American Way” April 1 issue. “Outside” April, “New York Walker” #16, “CMO” March, all out now.

November 20, 2004

Ellen Germain, an illustration major at Pratt Institute, did an interview with me. I got her permission to put it up on my site as the context I thought may be helpful for students who want to become professional illustrators in future. Read interviewSome photos are from the opening party of “Psionic Distortion” show in Tokyo. Thanks Tim!Some of the new illustrations out now are: SPIN December issue, Men’s Fitness December issue, New York Times Upfront Magazine Nov.15 issue, Financial Times Magazine(UK) November 27 issue.
Also, American Illustration 23 is out now with three of my work in it. Murphy Design’s Artistic Utopia calender book is also out. Exhibition in LA to follow. Check out recernt illustrations

October 24, 2004 (2nd Post)

My work will be in a group show “Psionic Distortion” in Tokyo in November. It is a show of Japanese comic artists and western artists who have been influenced by Japanese comics. I will be showing pages from “Sweater for Siamese Twins” and some personal pieces. For details, please read press release.Three new books just came out.
1) “Imagemakers — Cutting Edge Fashion Illustration” (by Martin Dawber from Mitchel Beazley, UK) features 50 fashion illustrators around the world including friend Marcos Chin and myself.
Our images were shown at Liverpool Biennial art festival at John Moor’s University Gallery between October 4-15.
2) “Manga — 60 Years Of Japanese Comics” (by Paul Gravett from Harper Collins) is an extensive history book of manga. My work is mentioned as a Japanese comic artist working abroad, along with friend Paul Pope mentioned as a western comic artist doing manga in the US.
3) “Websites — 100% Loaded” (from Feierabend, Germany) yukoart.com is included as one of the best designed artist sites.

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