福田愛子・ビジュアルアーティスト

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・２０１４年よりイラストレーターとして活動を本格化させる。幼少時代からファッションに興味を持ち、母や姉から譲り受けた洋服たちを自分流にアレンジして着るのが好きな子どもだった。ものに宿る「懐かしさ」や「思いで」「世代を超えたタイムレスな美」の価値観が、後にイラストレーターとして生きる彼女のクリエイションの基盤となる。

近年ではiPad Proを導入し、アナログとデジタルを融合させた表現方法に注力。ペン画を軸とした繊細はタッチはデジタルの世界でも変わることなく、紙とデジタルを掛け合わせた既成概念にとらわれない表現のあり方を追求している。

現在は東京を拠点に国内外で活動しており、去年はニューヨークにて個展を開催、今年からは日本人初の「アドビクリエイティブレジデント２０１９」に選出などがある。

受賞歴：

2017年 MAKE IT ON MOBILE by Adobe Social Media Challenge 優勝, US

2018年 GMUND AWARD 2018 Private部門 入選, Germany

Aiko is was born and raised in Chiba, Japan and currently a freelance illustrator based in Tokyo. 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 into drawing in which she found peace. She began pursuing illustration intensely on the weekends and in 2014 she became a full-time freelance illustrator.

Aiko’s work is fashion-inspired illustrations with a delicate, pen-drawn touch. Just as we choose the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, and the changing weather, her mood influences her drawings. Her curiosity never stops and she is constantly challenging herself with new illustrative methods and techniques, experimenting with the possibilities of combining the analogue and digital world. Currently she has been Adobe Creartive Resident 2019 and persuaded her passionate project, Pop-up Book with AR technology.

- AWARD -

2017: Winner for MAKE IT ON MOBILE by Adobe Social Media Challenge

2018: Nominated for GMUND AWARD 2018

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

▶︎Featured by ARTNET NEWS (EN)

Editors’ Picks: 17 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week

▶︎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)
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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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▶︎MAC FAN magazine (JP)

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Fashion Illustrator Aiko Fukuda's creation with iPad Pro

▶︎Wakatsuki Works World (JP)

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Yumi Wakatsuki from Nogizaka46's column "Let's Draw Beauty Illustrations with iPad Pro!" Guest: Aiko Fukuda

▶︎Interviewed by MYNAVI.JP (JP)
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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)
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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)