Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

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

PAINT BALL AUCTION IS OVER

Kidrobot Paint Ball auction is officially over. Thank you whoever you are for placing the highest bid for my Dunny all the way from Germany! Hope you’ll like having him around. Let me know if you have any handling questions. And thank you everyone else for bidding. All the proceeds are going to Save the Children Foundation.

RISD students, see you guys on Monday.

KiDROBOT PAINT BALL. COME SEE MY DUNNY!

Kidrobot’s Paint Ball to benefit Save The Children foundation is tomorrow, September 7th in New York. Open to public from 8-11PM. Come see my 20″ Dunny, or you can even buy it through auction. Go to special site to read more in details. click on icons to see my finished Dunny, and process photos. Dunny was painted in oil based enamel.Special thank you goes to Soner On for two day long assistance in the middle of heat wave to seal and prime my dunny.

YELLOW PENCIL AWARD!!

Wow! Just came back from Warsaw, and found in my mailbox an award certificate for D & AD Global Awards’ Yellow Pencil Award!!! What a wonderful surprise. The award was given to New York Magazine Sex issueto which I contributed an illustration.Thank you so much everyone at New York Magazine art department. It was one of my big dreams to get this award, and I wasn’t expecting to receive it as a surprise!

NEW BOOK FASHION ILLUSTRATOR IS OUT NOW

Fashion Illustrator: Drawing and Presentation for the Fashion Designeris a new book by Bethan Morris (published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc, UK) written as text book for students who major in fashion or fashion illustration. There is an illustration I did a while back accompanied by a short interview.I will also be in a book called Big Book of Fashion Illustration by Martin Dawber which is scheduled to be published soon from Anova Books of UK.

COMPLETELY ART-ed OUT IN WARSAW

Just got back from Warsaw. It was an amazing trip. Stayed with Agata Nowicka, an illustrator / comic artist who is responsible for new trend of illustration in Poland, who is also the editor in chief of Exklusiv Magazine (they featured my work a while back), and Poland’s most famous single mother. She sure is a superwoman. Thank you for an amazing time.

I also met wonderful Zuzanna Krajewska, the busiest commercial photographer in Warsaw. She is showing her personal work at Contemporary Art Center.

When you are in Warsaw, make sure to check out their amazing Poster Museum!!

OTHER STUFF…

School starts right after Labor Day. Kid Robot’s Paint Ball is coming up. AND, Yes, I will, I will, update my illustration section very soon…..

TRAVELING WITHOUT MOVING

One of the things I love about being an illustrator is that my work can travel to a lot of different places with me being here in front of my desk.

My monthly illustration for Marian Mcevoy’s page in DOMINO Magazine is now seen monthly in DOMINO Greece and House and Garden South Africa. Also, from September issue I will be illustrating sex column for TORO, super well designed men’s magazine in Canada.

But hey, I am still here, in Midtown Manhattan, blasting my favorite Jamiroquai tune…

GET A SMACK!

SMACK!is Warner Elektra Atlantic Music’s new sampler CD with 17 tracks of music they recommend to people with good taste in music.You can get it free (includes my front and back cover illustrations) from participating music stores nation wide. (Unfortunately not in NYC area.. ) Please ask the local stores near you.

Thank you Richard Jennings of WEA for his amazing ideas and great art direction, and Michelle Massi for wonderful design!

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