An artist based in United States, California

Yukimi Annand

Yukimi Annand is a calligrapher, lettering and book artist based in Southern California. She grew up on her parents’ flower farm in Japan. She studied visual communication design and worked as a graphic designer for over 10 years in Tokyo. She left her position as a director in the prestigious Takenobu Igarashi Studio to come to the U.S. in 1990.

While working as a freelance designer in Southern California, she discovered the world of Western calligraphy and has been fascinated by that world ever since. She is passionate about the beauty of the Roman alphabet and creates unique artwork with her love of calligraphic mark making and textures incorporated with nature. She has been experimenting with the use of tools and mediums to expand her world of calligraphy. 

It has also been her great pleasure to share her ideas and to give workshops all around the world since 2012. Yukimi’s work has frequently been shown in Letter Arts Review magazine as well as calligraphic books and journals. And they have been included in calligraphy collections in Berlin, San Francisco, Moscow and private collections.

In the Symbiosis II exhibition, Yukimi led her group comprising Bakhyt Kadyrova, Nina Tran and Qiana Liao, to explore the theme Wearable Calligraphy — Calligraphic Textures.

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