Tatsuro Kiuchi

change to an art career after graduating with distinction from the Art
Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He started
illustrating mostly children’s books with several publishers in the US
and Japan and eventually branched out into editorial work in magazines
and the illustration of book jackets and advertising commissions. His
first picture book “The Lotus Seed” (text by Sherry Garland / Harcourt
Brace & Company) has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide, and has
been commissioned by such clients as Royal Mail to do Christmas Stamp
Collection in 2006, and Starbucks for Worldwide Holiday Promotion
“Pass the Cheer” in 2007.

He now lives in Tokyo Japan.

AWARDS

American Illustration, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, Society
of Illustrators, 3×3 Professional Show (Bronze Medals), Publishing
Award for illustration from Kodansha, Bologna International Children’s
Book Art Annual, Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles (Bronze
Medals), Art Directors Club Annual, Tokyo Illustrators Society (Bronze
Medals)

SELECTED CLIENTS

American Airlines, The Boston Globe, Continental Airlines, Farrar
Straus & Giroux, Fortune, Good Housekeeping, The Guardian, Harcourt
Brace & Company, Japan Airlines, The New Yorker, The New York Times,
The Royal Mail, Simon & Schuster, Sony Music Entertainment, Starbucks,
Suntory, Travel & Leisure, United Airlines, The Washington Post,
Wieden+Kennedy, NHK