I made bright colored illustrations using India inks with combined elements such as stars, desert, the earth, and Nomad. Those visuals were created based on inspirations that I've got from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's books "Wind, Sand, and Stars" and "The Little Prince."
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金沢市生まれ。NY在住。 パーソンズ・スクール・オブ・デザインのイラストレーション科を卒業。 以後、NYのアパレル会社でテキスタイル・デザイナーとして働く。 2008年より、イラストレーション制作を中心とした活動を開始。 NYの文芸誌 "The New Yorker" に、イラストを描いている。
Akiko Kato was born in Kanazawa-city Japan, and currently lives in New York. She graduated from Parsons School of Design with BFA in illustration major. Having worked as a textile designer in apparel companies in NY. She started to focus on making her own artwork in 2008. Her illustration appears in The New Yorker magazine in US.