Yuko Shimizu (清水裕子) is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts.
You may have seen her work on The Gap T-shirts, Pepsi cans, VISA billboards, Microsoft and Target ads, as well as 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 over last ten years.
— quoted from yukoart.com