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Kōji Ishikawa (石川 浩二,Ishikawa Kōji;pen name:いしかわ こうじ, born October 4, 1963) is a Japanese children's book author and illustrator. His work includes advertisements, magazine illustration, web, character design and book design. In recent years he has madechildren's books. He lives inTokyo with his wife and two children.
Kōji Ishikawa was born inChiba PrefectureJapan in 1963.[1] As a child he loved painting, handicraft andorigami. Ishikawa attendedMusashino Art University, and studied visual communication design. He was awarded Kodansha picture for children Grand Prix, while in university. From that time, he began work asillustrator.
He has appeared on television programs and in magazines, and has lectured on digital art. He is one of the pioneers ofdigital illustration. His main painting tools areCorel Painter andAdobe Photoshop. He has also written a book on the technique of the digital illustration usingCorel Painter ("Happy Painter Life"). In 1999 he developed "Paper Dog" (ペーパーわんこ; (Pēpāwanko), and "Paper Cat" (ペーパーにゃんこ; (Pēpānyanko). These are small dogs and cats made from paper. The picture-book of Paper Dogs "Living with 100 dogs" were announced in 2002.[citation needed] The ItalyBologna international picture-book original picture exhibition accepted the paper dog photo story "Kotaro's trip" in 2004. It is extolled by the French judgeXavier Pingaud. Picture-books "Colorful Animals hide and seek" and "Colorful Vehicles hide and seek" were announced in 2006. Translations of This series appeared inFrance,South Korea andChina. The number of copies is over 1550,000 copies in the whole series. In 2008, Ishikawa released three picture-books, "Colorful Fruits hide and seek", "Patterned Animals hide and seek" and "The trip of the little ship". In 2009, Ishikawa released five picture-books, "Baby smile", "Baby hello", "Tsumiki-kun", "Panda's ONIGIRI" and "Book of Eggs".[citation needed]
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