My new picture book is just out. The book is about sakura, cherry blossoms. It is written by Naoko Higashi, the same author of Rain Po Po Po. I will be exhibiting digital prints from the book at following bookstores.
Feb.11 – Mar.2 at Book House Jimbocho
Mar.8 – Mar.19 at Aoyama Book Center in Aoyama
Mar.29 – Apr.18 at Asahiya Shoten in Ikebukuro
I have been doing a series of, sort of like cartoon-illustration pieces for myself. The series is about a shiba inu (Japanese breed dog) and people, and always comes with a line or two in each piece. I do the writing myself, and usually it consists of wordplay, which means it’s hard to translate into any other languages.
Now I have started contributing this series to a Japanese magazine Illustration, so I have to come up with a new piece every once in a two months.
This one is the very first piece I did for the magazine, and it might be fairly easy to translate into English.
“A newly opened cafe where dogs are allowed. “
I didn’t even know until now that the book has been submitted but am glad to find out it has been shortlisted for the award. Here is the detail.
The Folio Society’s edition of The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch, and illustrated by Tatsuro Kiuchi, has been shortlisted for a Design Week Award 2010. These awards are among the design world’s most prestigious, with Britain’s leading agencies represented. The Sea, The Sea has been nominated in the Print Editorial category. The winners will be announced on Tuesday 2 March.
Folio Art Manager Sheri Gee said, ‘I’m really excited by this – we haven’t entered the competition before and it represents a fantastic opportunity to show our beautiful books to a new audience.’
For more information about the Design Week Awards, click here.
raindrops popopo, originally uploaded by Tatsuro Kiuchi.
I have 7 pieces accepted into the Society of Illustrators 52 Annual, and the above image won a silver medal for the book category. This is my first time to receive a medal from Society of Illustrators, and am very excited.
This is a jacket illustration for a children’s picture book, Rain Po Po Po, written by Naoko Higashi. The book is for toddlers, so I had to use bright colors with simple, strong, and bold compositions. In order to make the book appeal to parents who have either boys or girls, I tried to depict the protagonist being indistinctive of gender by not showing his face fully. (Actually, he is a boy, but the child could be a girl, too.) I am illustrating the second book with Naoko Higashi right now. This book will have cherry blossoms and petals, just like raindrops in Rain Po Po Po.
This image is also from Rain Po Po Po. An interior piece.
This baseball piece was quite well received and was also selected into American Illustration 28 and Communication Arts Annual.
A protest poster for Green Iran.
These 3 pieces are for The Sea, The Sea, written by Iris Murdoch.
The book has 512 pages including frontispiece and 8 colour illustrations.
This was a very fun project.
She was about two months old when she came to our home.
Here is our dog, Chai, 3 months old. She came to our home at the end of last year, and has become a member of my family since then. She is a Shiba inu, a Japanese dog breed. Even thought the fact that this is the second time for me to live with a Shiba inu, she has been just amazing, full of wonder.
You can view more photos of Chai below.
www.flickr.com/photos/_mieko/sets/72157622798797245/
The pages will be updated often.
