Saturday, April 23, 2011

Indoor Street Art by Paul Baines

Indoor Street Art by Paul Baines


Yuko Shimizu

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 04:57 AM PDT

Yuko Shimizu is one hell of a talented illustrator, born in Japan and based in New York City and an illustration instructor at School of Visual Arts. Newsweek Japan has chosen her as one of "100 Japanese People The World Respects" in 2009. Yuko graduated with MFA from Illustration as Visual Essay Program in 2003 and has been illustrating since. She also teaches a BFA Illustration course and occasionally advises MFA students at SVA. She works in a studio in Manhattan, a space she shares with two artists whom she considers as her 'New York family'.

Her clients include a bevy of Blue Chips including Microsoft, Pepsi, VISA, MTV, TARGET, The Gap, T-Mobile, Neiman Marcus, Warner Elektra Atlantic Music, NPR, FUSE TV, M.A.C. Cosmetics, Pentagram, Sagmeister Inc., TIME, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, PLAYBOY, GQ, and many more. She's also been featured in a wealth of books such as llustration Now! (Taschen, Germany), Illusive 2 (Die Gestalten Verlag, Germany), How To Be An Illustrator (Laurence King, UK), The PIcture Book (Laurence King, UK), Things I Have Learned In Life So Far (Abrams), Handmade (Gingko Press), It's A Matter Of Illustration (Victionary, Hong Kong).

Her awards and recognitions include Newsweek Japan "100 Japanese People The World Respects (世界が尊敬する日本人100)", Yellow Pencil Award D & AD,  Gold and Silver Medals Society of Illustrators, Silver Awards Spectrum,  Magazine of the Year Award Society of Publication Designers,   Gold and Silver Awards Society of Illustrators LA, Gold and Silver Awards 3×3 Magazine Annual,
Art Directors Club, American Illustration, Communication Arts, HOW Design Award, New American Paintings.

Her sense of perspective, tone, colour and fluid line is phenomenal, Yuko is a major player in the global illustration market, and so she should be. Here are a few of her illustrations, paintings and book covers, expect to be wowed.

anticlimb bells_whistles blizzard_opener chip image4 jane_condom2 mj_cover moribito3 moribito_c New York Magazine - Nov 21 05 - Yukp Shimizu pandagirl raining_bonsai target_ad unwritten9b walrus_cover1

TEZ

Posted: 23 Apr 2011 04:34 AM PDT

Astromouse

TEZ aka Paul Terry is a Sydney born pop-influenced painter and sculptor with a great sense of humour and a love of the lowbrow. He delivers a nice line in social commentary, with corporations, brands and cartoon icons brought into the firing line. There are a couple of print versions of 'Astromouse' available at his store if you're keen. Keep up-to-date with his tweets here.

Astromouse Blow Up Your Ego Hijacked Mr and Mrs Jones Roy's Fusion Sure Ain't Sushi Vegemite

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