Yuko Shimizu

YUKO SHIMIZU (清水裕子) is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts. Newsweek Japan has chosen her as one of "100 Japanese People The World Respects（世界が尊敬する日本人100)" in 2009. Her first self-titled monograph was released world-wide from German publisher Gestalten in 2011. The first children's book she has illustrated is scheduled to come out from Abrams in 2013.

She has created numerous book covers and interiors, including Moribito series by Nahoko Uehashi, Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus and The Beautiful and Grotesque by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, among others. Her work can also be seen in such publications as NY Times, Time, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker.

This Yuko Shimizu is NOT the creator of Hello Kitty.