Yuko Shimizu
www.yukoart.com
Illustrator, Fine Artist, Art School Instructor | New York
Tell us about your background?
Enthusiasts of luxury, pomposity and irony, we develop exclusive kinky prints for tailored clothes, homeware, and special commissions. The fabric is digitally printed to a high quality on silk, velvet, poplin, furniture satin and organza. Attention to detail is paramount. We love challenges, at the moment we are dressing an original mini cooper in Basso & Brooke.
We are also developing wallpaper and pottery for next year.
How would you explain your style of illustration?
We tell stories with our prints. Kingdoms, treasure, enchanted characters, magical objects and fables, but always portraying our subject as if through a lens that distorts the reality a little, enhancing them – sometimes obscurely. With the warped aesthetic, we like to play.
Our source of inspiration can come from tongue n’ cheek humour, gambling or fairground horses to art nouveau, debutante parties, Jung & cheap porn…. Constantly observing the fantastic, the epic, the tragic, the decadent and the ridiculous.
We encourage people to look deeper than surface. Provocative and sometimes misunderstood our work involves sexual imagery but only as a vehicle to symbolize the desire that man has for power. Never take us too seriously.
Fans of bon vivants, eccentrics and talented people, we are inspired by them every time.
What programs do you use to create your illustrations?
Drawings by hand and photoshop.
Thanks Yuko Shimizu for having taken her time to make this interview with us
Interview done by Flavio Monteiro for UAILAB
March 2005
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