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Tadahiro Uesugi (update 2014)


I first wrote about Japanese illustrator Tadahiro Uesugi back in 2005, and again in 2010. While his awkwardly arranged website has unfortunately not been revised, his work is a fresh and wonderful as ever.

Influenced by an affection for 1950s and 1960s “modern” styles of American advertising art, Uesugi brings together a strong sense of design, perspective and geometry with a brilliant use of light and color to create deceptively simple but remarkably effective images.

Many of his illustrations are set in U.S. and European cities (as presumably are some of his clients), notably San Francisco and Paris.

He uses open areas and negative space with almost equal presence to his represented objects. Often, much more is suggested than presented. He adds deft touches of texture exactly where most appropriate.

Given the amazingly strong geometric foundation of his compositions, you might be tempted to think that his images are filled with straight lines, but they’re not. His lines are curved, slanted, skewed, broken and rough edged &md

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I have been in love with Tadahiro’s work ever since I visited the Three Trees Make a Forest exhibit at Gallery Nucleus.

Tadahiro Uesugi:
was born in 1966 in Miyazaki on Kyuushuu Island, Japan. He studied fashion illustration at the Tokyo Art School’s “Setsu Mode Seminar”. At 28, he worked as an assistant for Manga artist Jiro Taniguchi and made his debut as an illustrator on the magazine “Magazine House”. He has since created elegant illustrations with a jazzy and classical sensibility for prestigious clients in Europe, Japan and the US. His work can be seen on magazine covers, Books and a variety of other commercial products and advertising campaigns.

Here are some of his work (including my personal favorites!)

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This article, Tadahiro Uesugi, is under active construction! Coraline Wiki apologizes for the inconvenience.

Tadahiro Uesugi is a Japanese Illustrator living in Tokyo. He was introduced to Mike Cachuela, by Ronnie Del Carmen and Enrico Casarosa of Pixar, who in turn introduced him to Henry Selick who invited him to become the concept artist of the Coraline production.[1]

According to Henry Selick in an Metropolis interview, Uesugi is heavily influenced by late '50s and early '60s American illustration. But Selick's directions for the art was: "design with your own ideas; but we would like to see something we've never seen before!"[2]

Work on Coraline[]

One of Tadahiro Uesugi's most iconic design is "the Pink Palace Apartments" apartment complex in the Coraline production. But one of Uesugi's biggest influences was on the color palette, which was muted in reality and more colorful in the Other World. Uesugi declared that "at the beginning, it was supposed to be a small project over a few weeks to simply create characters; however, I ended up working on the project for ove

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