Tatsuro Kiuchi

Just created a page for PEN STILL WRITES on facebook. We are going to publish our studio news there. BTW, PEN STILL WRITES is a studio I share with an illustrator, Hiromichi Ito. The studio is located in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. Please have a look!

A special website THE ART OF PHIL HAYS is up and running now. Just like Alex Gross says below, Phil was also my mentor and teacher, who had kept encouraging me in my studies, during my school years at Art Center College of Design.

Here is Alex’s words.
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Please visit a very special website, one which is close to my heart. The late Phil Hays was my mentor, my instructor, and my friend. He was also one of the most important and influential illustrators from the 1960s to the late 1970s. The all new www.philhays.com features dozens of images of some of his best work, as well as candid photos of Phil from his childhood to his New York days, and then to Los Angeles, where he was the Chairman of the Illustration department at Art Center College of Design. Please have a look and let us know what you think.

Sincerely,
Alex Gross

I have been working as a committee member of website renewal project at Tokyo Illustrators Society, and the site is finally revamped and reopened. Website design by AQ.

Tokyo Illustrators Society

My portfolio page at TIS

03503.3D, originally uploaded by Tatsuro Kiuchi.

3D stereogram version for naked eye viewing. This image is set for cross-eyed viewing. Enjoy!

How to Free-View the Stereo Pairs

03503, originally uploaded by Tatsuro Kiuchi.

I will be taking part in this exhibition, EARTH: Fragile Planet at The Society of Illustrators.

Title : Not so polar bear

I thought it would be striking to show a polar bear in the forest. He is now forced to live in the mountain because there are no ice floats left for him to hunt for seals in the arctic. There he is standing with his hands and mouth soaking in blood. I presented the bear being rather cute, not menacing looking at all to imply that this is the reality, and this is the nature. He doesn’t have to be angry. He is just doing what he has to do to stay alive. The earth will keep rotating whether the natural environment is being destroyed or not.

I am delighted to find that the book I had illustrated won design week award for editorial category.
http://www.foliosociety.com/news
Here is the Design Week Awards 2010 results.
http://awards.designweek.co.uk/dw/categories/editorial-design/

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 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.