Japanese illustrator based in New York City. Her work has appeared on The Gap T-shirts, Pepsi cans, VISA billboards, Microsoft and Target ads, on the book covers of Penguin, Scholastic, DC Comics, and on the pages of NY Times, Time, Rolling Stone, New Yorker and in many other publications.

But illustration is actually Yuko’s second career. She had Initially working in corporate PR in Tokyo, she moved to New York City in 1999 and graduated with MFA from SVA’s Illustration as Visual Essay Program in 2003 and has been illustrating and teaching since.

Not to be confused with another Yuko Shimizu. This Yuko did NOT create Hello Kitty.