福田愛子・1986年生まれ。

ブリッジウォーター州立大学芸術学部グラフィックデザイン学科卒業。帰国後企業にてグラフィックデザイナー・海外駐在員を経験するも夢を追い求めてイラストレーターに転身。ペン画を軸としたノスタルジックで温かみのある世界観はまるで昔からあったような懐かしさとタイムレスさを感じさせる。

近年iPad Proを導入したことにより、アナログとデジタルをシームレスに行き交い共存しあう表現方法を身につける。新しい方法論や技法を積極的に取り入れながら、平面だけではなくディスプレイやパッケージデザインなど、イラストを用いた表現の可能性を日々追求中。

Aiko was born in Japan in 1986. She graduated from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts with a B.A. in Graphic Design. After completing her studies Aiko returned to Tokyo and started working as an in-house Graphic Designer in the luxury fashion industry. Meanwhile she was fascinated by vintage picture books and found the pen-drawing to make it look like aged picture. That's how she started using pointillism technique. Drawing for her is like ZEN. She began pursuing illustration intensely and in 2014 she became full-time freelance illustrator.

Aiko’s work is "fashion-inspired" illustrations with a delicate, pen-drawn touch. Since most of famous fashion designers exposure their creativities through their daily life, her illustrations don't seem like the typical fashion illustrations, yet could be the lifestyle drawings. However Aiko believes that the way of her creation is next fashion illustrations-to-be. Aiko always has curiosity, she is constantly challenging herself with new illustrative methods and techniques, experimenting with the possibilities of combining the analog and digital worlds using iPad Pro.

▶︎Featured by Adobe CREATE Magazine (EN)
BIG In Japan: The Illustrator 30 (Part Four)

▶︎Featured by ROLAND D.C. IMAGINE BLOG (JP/EN)
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UV Printers “Transform Imagination into Reality” on The Covers of Moleskine Notebooks

▶︎Interviewed by CONTAINER WEB (JP)
_{広がっていくイラスト表現の世界}
Aiko's Possibilities of Expression Through Her Drawings

▶︎Interviewed by Adobe Creative Station (JP)
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Adobe Illustrator30_30 Interview

▶︎Featured by VOGUE JAPAN Editor's Pick (JP)
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Do You Know VOGUE Coloring Books?

▶︎Interviewed by MYNAVI.JP (JP)
_{iPad ProとApple Pencilを使った「Today at Apple」のセッションに
ファッションイラストレーターとして活躍する福田愛子さん登場}
Fashion Illustrator Aiko Fukuda gave a Live Art Session at Today at Apple GINZA.

▶︎Featured by ISUTA.JP (JP)
_{iPad Proでイラストを描こう！7月5日のApple ワークショップは
ファッションイラストレーター ・福田愛子が登場♩}
Let's draw on iPad Pro! Fashion Illustrator Aiko Fukuda is invited as a guest speaker at Today at Apple GINZA on July 5th.

▶︎Featured by KIDS Magazine Web (FR)
Une Histoire De Lapin Calin

Featured in BOOK:
▶︎PICTORIA Volume No.1 (AU)
▶︎FASHION ILLUSTRATION FIle 2017 (JP)
▶︎A Journey Through Monochrome Illustrations (JP)