IMMI- Yuko Shimizu

 Yuko Shimizu: 

“YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子) is A multi-award-winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City.  Yuko is an instructor at The School of Visual Arts and has almost 20 years of experience illustrating.

Her work includes multiple disciplines; from pages of The New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, The New Yorker to WIRED,  covers for DC Comic, Penguin, and Scholastic, advertising for Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Universal Pictures, SONY, Paramount, MTV, Nike, Hasbro, and Target, to name a few.

Additionally, she has collaborated with the Smithsonian Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Library of Congress. In 2020, collaboration with Artechouse brought her drawings to large-scale interactive experiences.

Yuko is a two-time Hugo Award nominee (2019, 2020), has won more than 15 medals from the Society of Illustrators since 2004, and was recently awarded the Caldecott Honor (2021), one of the highest awards for picture books, for her work on the children’s book The Cat Man of Aleppo (Penguin, 2020).  Yuko was also chosen as one of the “100 Japanese People the World Respects (世界が尊敬する日本人１００）” by Newsweek Japan in 2009.”

“FUN FACT: Please do not mix Yuko up with another Yuko Shimizu (not me!). This Yuko did NOT create Hello Kitty.”

“Selected Clients: Apple, Philadelphia Museum of Art, NIKE, Library of Congress, Adobe, Paramount Pictures, VISA, PepsiCo, United States Postal Service,Warner Brothers, WACOM, DC Comics, Smithsonian Institution, TIME, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Gap, Microsoft, Pentagram, MTV, Target, GQ, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Sagmeister Inc., Fuse TV, NPR, Warner,  Elektra,  Atlantic Music, T-Mobile, and Neiman Marcus.”

“Books include: Living with Yuko Shimizu (ROADS, Ireland, 2016), Japanese Tales (by Royall Tyler, Folio Society, 2018), A Wild Swan (by Michael Cunningham, FSG, 2015), Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Beehive Books, 2018), Barbed Wire Baseball (by Marissa Moss & Yuko Shimizu, Abrams 2013), Yuko Shimizu (Gestalten, Germany, 2011), 100 Illustrators (Taschen, Germany), Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far (by Stefan Sagmeister, Abrams) and Fifty Years of Illustration (by Lawrence Zeegen + Caroline Roberts, Laurence King, UK, 2014).”