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Yuko Shimizu

Publisher Folio Society (UK)’s illustrated collector edition of Haruki Murakami classic HardBoiled Wonderland and the End of the World. January 2026.

Hard-Boild Wonderland and the End of the World
Yuko Shimizu

Hard-boild Wonderland and the End of the World

publisher Folio Society (UK)’s illustrated collector edition of Haruki Murakami classic “ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World"
Yuko Shimizu

Sisters in Yellow

Killed book cover, new release novel Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami. March 2025. A noir with working poor young women protagonists living in a run down house in Tokyo in the 1990s. The unused jacket was later appeared in New York Times Book Review of the same book
Yuko Shimizu

Slow and Steady

Slow and Steady. August 2025. An illustration accompanying an essay about life in a garden

Deseret Magazine
Yuko Shimizu

Godzilla Official Pop-Up Book

Godzilla Official Pop-Up Book. January 2025. I had a pleasure (and a nightmare) of illustrating for a giant popup book featuring godzilla and other kaiju. the parts are connected to make pop ups in 3D.

Godzilla The Official Pop-Up Book