For award-winning illustrator Yuko Shimizu, building an artistic career hasn't always been a consistent journey. Despite developing her love for drawing at a young age, she initially chose a more ...

Yuko Shimizu, a freelance illustrator and teacher at the School of Visual Arts, looked at more than 150 one-bedroom co-op apartments before deciding on this one in Morningside Heights a year and a ...

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Spring is upon us and that means that awards season is in full swing in the creative industries. Every April, the prestigious Society of Illustrators (SOI) announces a group of Hall of Fame inductees ...

The Sanrio Company has designed hundreds of characters since 1960, when the company was initially founded, but none have earned quite the level of fame that Hello Kitty has. Since her inception back ...

BFA Illustration faculty member Yuko Shimizu (MFA 2003 Illustration as Visual Essay) is the latest member of the SVA community to bring her artwork to the streets of New York City—or below them, to be ...

A parrot confined to a too-small cage, jellyfish floating above fungi and ferns, and a spotted octopus resting as the centerpiece to a flourishing bouquet are a few of the surreal scenes in the works ...

It’s 50 years since the creation of one of the world’s most recognisable characters, Hello Kitty. In 1974, a 24-year-old Japanese illustrator called Yuko Shimizu put pen to paper to draw the famous ...

You’ve probably admired the work of award-winning artist Yuko Shimizu before — her art has adorned some covers of Vertigo Comics’ The Unwritten as well as some great book covers and illustrations at ...