One picture is worth a thousand words!
Hello, my name is Chihiro Takeuchi. I've been part of the industry for some two decades but I gathered the courage to publish my first work, a paper cut
craft book, mere 8 years ago.
Now, it seems like a life-time ago. Coming from a family of artists, my life has always been seeped in art. Ever since I was a child I was surrounded by
it and I knew it would be my life's calling. My motivation for doing and continuing to do this has largely stayed the same over the years. I love encouraging children's imagination and I love
discovering new designs and new stories that will resonate with them. My three children are my strictest critics and my greatest help and I have them to thank for all the successes I've had so
far.
The highlights of my career have been being selected to exhibit at the Bologna Book Fair for two years in a row and working with Google's team and talented artists from all over the world in order to promote women on International Women's Day in 2018.
My personal life and my professional career have taken many surprising and unsuspecting turns so far but I
have enjoyed the ride and I hope to continue finding and bringing exciting stories to children everywhere.
I love to make stories with some blank spaces that readers can fill with their own imagination.
That's the effect I am trying to make and the effect my books will hopefully have.
●Awards Received
2017 - NY" Society of Illustrators" The Original Art<Year's best childre's books>
2016 - BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR Selected Illustrator
2015 - BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR Selected Illustrator
2013 - NIKATEN DESIGN Winner
●My clients:
Berbay Books,Tundra Books<Penguin Random House Canada>,
CandleWick Press,Google,Shuppan works,Sinnos,Rue de monde,NIHON VOGUE,HIKARINOKUNI,Kazoo Magazine etc
●History
Born and residing in Osaka, Japan
Musashino Art College Division - Majored in graphic design
●Work History
Oversaw editing and design at a regional newspaper company
In 2007, left the company to open 10 independent art classrooms
in the Osaka and Kyoto areas.
In addition, oversaw workshop planning and construction of a craft-arts book.
●Books
・All In A Day - Berbay books(2022)
・Whose Dinosaur Bones? - Berbay
books(2022)
・Whose Bones Are
Those? - Candlewick Press (2022)
・Can you find my robot's arm? - RH Korea PTy Ltd(2022)
・Colors, Animals , ABC - Shanghai Juvenile &
Children’s Publishing House
(上海世纪出版集团少年儿童出版社)(2022)China
・Paper
Peek Alphabet - Candlewick Press (2022/01)
・Minnano ichinichi - Alice kan(2021.11)
・Knochensalat Welches Tier verbirgt sich hier? - Lübbe (2021/10)German
・Whose
Bonse? - Berbay books(2020/10)
・ABC Alphabet - Berbay books(2021/02)
・Animals - Candlewick Press
(2020/09)
・机器人宝宝想象力 双语 - 中信出版集团(2020/06)China
・Chache Chache Colours - Saltimbanque
editions(2020/6)
・DARE NO HONE? - Shuppan works (2020/6)
・Animals - Berbay books(2019/10)
・Colors - Candlewick Press (2019/09)
・Colours - Berbay books(2019/02)
・BOKU NO SAGASHIMONO - Shuppan works(2017/10)
(2015 BOLOGNA CHILDREN`S BOOK FAIR Award illustration)
・Can you find my robot's
arm? - Tundra books /Penguin Randam House(2017/07)
(2015 BOLOGNA CHILDREN`S BOOK FAIR Award illustration)
・BOKU NO
TUJURIKATA - Shuppan works(2017/04)
(2016 BOLOGNA CHILDREN`S BOOK FAIR Award illustration)
・The fantastic recipe
machine - Berbay
books(2017/02)
(2016 BOLOGNA CHILDREN`S
BOOK FAIR Award illustration)
・la mia fabbrica - Sinnos(2016/09)Italian
(2016 BOLOGNA CHILDREN`S BOOK FAIR Award illustration)
・Ca se fabrique
peut-être comme ça - Rue de
monde(2016/09)France
(2016 BOLOGNA CHILDREN`S BOOK FAIR
Award illustration)
・Can you find my robot's arm? - Berbay books (2015/12)
(2015 BOLOGNA CHILDREN`S BOOK FAIR Award illustration)
・KAWAII KIRIGAMI BOOK - NIHON VOGUE(2015)
・HOIKU NO KIRIGAMI SEISAKU MARUGOTO BOOK - HIKARINOKUNI(2014)