Yuko Shimizu is an illustrator, fine artist, and educator at School of Visual Arts, New York, where she earned her MFA from Illustration as Visual Essay program in 2003. She has received numerous awards for her work, and her clients include Microsoft, Pepsi, VISA, MTV, TARGET, 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, and GQ.

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