Yuko Shimizu

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

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Work
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Japanese Tales 1 – book jacket –

Japanese Tales (written by Royall Tyler) is a collector edition book with 8 color interior illustrations with screen printed jacket and embossed die-cut slip case. Exclusively available from Folio Society of the UK.

This image set contains process of the cover, and one of the sketches that ended up turned into endpaper.

art direction: Raquel Leis Allion

awards and recognitions: Society of Illustrators 61 silver medal (2019)