MUSUTA Ltd.

Musuta to be featured at One Dot Zero - Adventures in Motion, London

2010-11-08T14:52:00.009+02:00

We are happy to announce that our piece 'Urban Abstract' was curated to be a part of One Dot Zero - Adventures in Motion festival in London this coming week.

Our film is featured in the citystates 10 programme An exploration of onedotzero's fascination with the city via an eclectic series of filmic responses to urban environments and fast-paced city living, from quirky personal insights to shared global experiences.

The onedotzero_adventures in motion festival showcases a mix of the brightest up-and-coming talents alongside world-leading creative luminaries: an international array of creators who stretch ideas of motion entertainment through a compelling mix of ground-breaking cinematic work, stellar screening programmes, explosive live audiovisual and music performances, sensory installations, in-depth presentations and social events.
Taking place in London at BFI Southbank, Wednesday 10 – Sunday 14 November,
citystates will be screened at the following times:

Wed 10 Nov 20:50 studio
Fri 12 Nov 14:00 nft3
Sat 13 Nov 16:15 nft1

tickets cost from £6.40 to £9.00, and can be booked here.

Onedotzero_adventures in motion 2010 festival motion identity from onedotzero on Vimeo:

Here's the Trailer / Screening programme teasers. Our piece is in the Citystates section:

onedotzero_adventures in motion 2010 screening programme teasers from onedotzero on Vimeo.

Musuta on Facebook

2010-10-20T17:14:00.003+03:00

Just a quick note, that you can follow / like us on Facebook too.

Find us here.

D&Ad Annual 2010 Out Soon!

2010-10-18T16:23:00.007+03:00

The D&Ad Annual 2010 'D&AD10: The Best Advertising and Design in the World' will be out mid-Nov. The book is published by Taschen. Our piece 'Urban Abstract', which was awarded Bronze / In Book is featured between the covers. :) More details about how to buy etc. on the D&Ad website here.

Tweak Festival Ireland - Features Musuta, Urban Abstract

2010-09-27T20:12:00.003+03:00

We were contacted by the organizers of Tweak festival, celebrating interactive digital art in Ireland. They wanted to feature Musuta & Urban Abstract in their program.

Nice!

Musuta Portfolio in We Are Helsinki Magazine

2010-08-20T17:02:00.004+03:00

Selected pieces from our portfolio and a brief interview featured in the current issue of We Are Helsinki magazin e - The Design Issue 9-10/2010.

This particular issue is released as a double feature with the official mag for the Helsinki Design Week 2010.

Many Thanks to Heini Lehtinen for the story!

Please follow this link for the whole scoop.

Urban Abstract GOLD LION, Cannes!

2010-06-24T09:54:00.012+03:00

OK, OMG. WE WON!!! HIPPIKAYEI ....!!!

Urban Abstract won a GOLD LION in Cannes last night from Design category. We take our hats off and salute the jury.

Our friend Clemens was there to pick up our Lion since we couldn't make it (yes we are very bummed about this).

I cannot even begin to describe how flabbergasted we are about the lion. Just so so cool. And hey our CD / AD Jopsu is only 28 years old and a woman. Maybe not the most common creature petting a golden lion.

Before this year officially last time a Gold Lion came to Finland was 1969. So it's about time to start bringing those babies home. To hell with it, Finland even has a golden lion in the Finnish crest. 1969? Come on peoples!!

Also our tiger Iggy at home is happy about the news and gladly welcomes the new cat into the family. 'but I am still boss and kick any lion ass, any day - golden or not' - Comments Iggy.

Urban Abstract - Makes Shorlist in Cannes

2010-06-22T14:19:00.009+03:00

They just keep on coming :) Our piece Urban Abstract made the shortlist in Cannes Lions. We are very very HAPPY!

So far with this piece of Motion Design we have been shortlisted for Vuoden Huiput (Top of the Year Finland), won bronze in European Design Awards and made the book / won bronze in D&Ad Awards. Super.

Carolina's blog...

2010-06-18T13:22:00.004+03:00

We met a very nice and interesting German lady in Tokyo quite recently in Rich magazine launch party. Carolina Cwiklinska from the creative agency North Kingdom, based in Stockholm. She made a very beautiful blog about her trip to Japan. You can check it out here.

She also made a nice post about our encounter. You can find that here.

And here's her snapshot of Jopsu with the Founder & Creative Director of +81 magazine Satoru Yamashita. Photo © Carolina.

D&Ad Awards Gala, London

2010-06-08T11:33:00.007+03:00

We had a blast attending the D&Ad gala in London to celebrate our bronze / in book award. We were in awe of the amazing quality of winning work and the colleagues who attended. Even Spike Jonze showed up to pick up the President's Award. Very cool. Here is a shot courtesy of D&Ad, more can be found from their Flickr page.

Manmaru - Adrien Dufond, Paris

2010-06-08T10:03:00.000+03:00

Had a meeting in Paris with our dear friend and flashmaster from Paris, Adrien Dufond of Manmaru.

...very envious of his old Parisian flat or as he put it: 'it's like living in a museum' :D

Here's Adrian:

European Design Awards 2010 - Urban Abstract awarded!

2010-05-31T11:08:00.005+03:00

Awards :) Yay!

We are proud to announce that in this years European Design Awards we were awarded bronze in the Motion Graphic category with our piece Urban Abstract.

Here's a link to the story.

Thank you ED Awards!

Double I - Identity Design

2010-05-24T16:12:00.009+03:00

We created an Identity for a new Finnish design management, export and agency: Double I. The company is handling clients between Finland and Japan.

For the website we asked our dear friend Maruyama Chikao (the one behind score of urban abstract) to compose the music. Photos we took ourselves... and finally we got a chance to collaborate with Adrien from Manmaru with the interactive design. Merci beaucoup!

The paper for the business cards is thick stuff shipped from Takeo paper in Japan. We used silk screen printing to get the desired feel.

And we are proud of the logo design, why not :)

www.double-i.fi

Jopo, downshifting in Tokyo

2010-05-11T18:38:00.005+03:00

Jopo was kind enough to send us two bikes to Tokyo and asked us to create a quick moodfilm for them about these relaxed Finnish bikes in Tokyo.

Jopo, downshifting in Tokyo from Musuta on Vimeo.

Music by Maruyama Chikao, shot, written, directed, edited, acted and stunt doubled by Musuta Ltd.

Urban Abstract made the Book in D&AD Awards!

2010-04-23T17:54:00.005+03:00

Awesome!

Urban Abstract has been chosen for the book in TV & Cinema Communications category under; TV Promotions, Stings & Programme Junctions. In our category, a total of 7 pieces were chosen for the book, us included.

We didn't win any awards in Vuoden Huiput (except made the book there as well..) so this kinda softens the blow :)
It's always kind of cool to be amongst other small players such as BBC, HBO, MTV, NICK etc.. :D

List of nominations and the ones who made it to the book here:

http://www.dandad.org/?page_id=3173

Quote from D&AD:
'With over 30% of judging complete, 154 entries have been selected to go into the D&AD Annual – representing the best creative work of the year.'

And here's more info about the book on D&AD website. It will be published by Taschen, which is also very cool.

A lot of pieces took part in the D&AD competition this year. Nice:

'The D&AD awards panel judges over 20,000 pieces of work from design studios, advertising agencies, branding consultancies, film production and photographic agencies, digital media pioneers, and other creative firms from all over the globe.'

Great!

Urban Abstract shortlisted!

2010-03-05T13:09:00.007+02:00

Urban Abstract was shortlisted in in Vuoden Huiput (Top of the Year), annual advertising, graphic design, design competition held in Finland. The winners will be announced in April.

We'll win, hands down :D

...and on a sidenote, Urban Abstract is getting a lot of hits on Vimeo. First month we got 60 000 hits and a lot more through embeds. Currently we are about to hit 80 000 mark. The video was also added to Vimeo Staff Picks, cool!, Thanks a lot for everyone!

MERRY™ logo design :)

2010-02-18T16:43:00.011+02:00

http://www.merrybirds.com/tento/
http://merrybirds.com/

Our friends had a exhibition- Tento ten- (Show your Peace ) at "UMU" Tv- asahi (Roppongi Hills), Tokyo.
We helped out with logo (MERRY™) and Tento ten!

Musuta @ Singapore Design Film Festival

2009-12-16T10:56:00.009+02:00

We will be providing Design Film Festival in Singapore with some bonus content... and of course attending the festival as well!

So if you're in Singapore end of Jan, be sure to check the festival out! It takes place in Sinema Old School on 20-30 January 2010.

http://www.designfilmfestival.com/singapore/

Musuta featured also on Fubiz...

2009-12-02T16:43:00.007+02:00

Urban Abstract now on Fubiz as well. Mercibeaucoup!

Link to story here.

So cool to have people discussing one's designs in french. Makes us feel very artistic :D

Urban Abstract on Ventilate!

2009-12-02T16:37:00.004+02:00

Sweet, we're also on Ventilate!

You can find a link to the story here.

Musuta - Urban Abstract as IdN pick of the month.. SWEET!

2009-12-01T16:33:00.005+02:00

We got featured as Pick of the Month on IdN magazine website. As subscribers to the magazine, we find this extremely cool.

Here's a link to the story on IdN.

..and of course some pics or didn't happen :)

Musuta featured on Hitspaper™

2009-11-26T14:57:00.005+02:00

Nice, we got featured: Urban Abstract is on HITSPAPER™ - ありがとうございます！

Here's a link to the story.

We are very proud to be featured on such a great website!

Urban Abstract - Website

2009-11-26T14:30:00.004+02:00

A lot of bombarding with UA I know.. but it's just so cool.

Here is a link to the website: urban-abstract.com

URBAN ABSTRACT - some stills and Vimeo link

2009-11-26T14:01:00.008+02:00

Here are a few selected captures from our Urban Abstract project...

And here is Urban Abstract on Vimeo:

Urban Abstract from Musuta on Vimeo.

URBAN ABSTRACT - About the concept:
Urban Abstract is a journey across urban space that unfolds in forty, 5 second parts. The journey, in one, two and three dimensions, is a bit like abstract surﬁng in which the original destination is only reached after a number of seemingly random yet linked detours occur. Points, lines, planes and other abstract elements create a journey through an Urban Abstract.
The space between things is as important as intended space, perhaps creating a fourth dimension. Meaningful shapes and purposes occur in this dimension's reality as well. The concept of “negative space” has meaning here. Nature plays a part as well. To be able to understand and differentiate what is urban one has understand what is nature.

The style of the shorts is ﬂuid and, though seemingly random, stream into a cohesive whole. Perhaps watching them in a different order would be more like seeing the same journey from another point of view. The sound world is also very important -- movement in space is sensed even if watching the shorts with eyes closed. Sounds overlap, fade, come and go.

Architectural, abstract, someway minimalist and abstract with a touch of humanity. This feeling is reached through mixing techniques such as vectors , hand drawn lines and painting.

Urban Abstract was realized in Tokyo by a team of artists, designers and animators from Finland and Japan. Urban Abstract was created by Jopsu Ramu from Musuta Ltd, a concept, art & design -studio based in Tokyo and Helsinki.

Credits:

Creative Director Jopsu Ramu MUSUTA
Art Director Jopsu Ramu MUSUTA, Shun Kawakami artless Inc.
Design&Storyboard Jopsu Ramu MUSUTA
Opening scene artwork Shun Kawakami artless Inc.
Calligraphy Gen Miyamura
Sound Chikao Maruyama
Producer Timo Huhtala MUSUTA
Director Mitsutomo Maeda & Masaru Ikeda EDP graphic works
Animation&Production EDP graphic works
Project management Tokyo Masaji Kinoshita / shirofuchi Inc.
Executive Producer MUSUTA Ltd.
Special thanks Taisuke Koyama, Brian Kaszonyi
Created by MUSUTA Ltd. - Jopsu Ramu & Timo Huhtala

Urban Abstract

2009-11-24T12:04:00.013+02:00

Jopsu from Musuta created a digital Art piece for Finnish TV Channel- TV Nelonen in collaboration with Shun Kawakami (Artless Inc.)
Please enjoy!

Urban Abstract from Musuta on Vimeo.

Nikon Next

2009-07-06T17:41:00.008+03:00

We helped our friend Kawakami Shun (Artless Inc.) and our buddies Arata Sasaki and Hilo at Hitspaper in Nikon Next a website for Nikon showcasing talented photographers from around the world.

Special thanks from us and the whole Nikon Next team goes to Catherine Nelson and Lauri Eriksson for contributing with their amazing photography.

You can read the Hitspaper blog post about it here.

And Nikon Next is here.

Our Friend - Kenichi Takemoto, 竹本健一

2009-07-06T17:23:00.006+03:00

We are doing some design and artwork for our Japanese friend and musician Kenichi Takemoto:

This is his photo and he is the dude on the left... The surprised one on the right is our Japanese manager Kinoshita Masaji.

Read about it here in his MySpace blog post.

And don't forget to listen to his music, also on Kenbo-san''s MySpace.

Twisted Roots - Work in Progress

2009-06-02T07:39:00.004+03:00

We're doing graphic design for an up and coming Finnish movie: Väärät Juuret - Twisted Roots. Here is a clip of the logo animation in the trailer.

You can view the full trailer here.

TWISTED ROOTS Film Poster for Cannes

2009-05-28T06:39:00.002+03:00

I MSCHIC MYSELF WITH JOPO Campaign

2009-05-28T06:08:00.001+03:00

MSCHIC BRIDE2009 Campaign

2009-05-28T06:01:00.002+03:00

Mother's Day Campaign for MSCHIC Color Cosmetics

2009-05-01T05:01:00.003+03:00

Happy with new Cintiq

2009-04-25T17:29:00.002+03:00

That's Timo in Tokyo...

yet again...

2009-04-16T16:38:00.002+03:00

Brand design

2009-04-08T17:44:00.014+03:00

We're designing a new luxury brand.
Starting from scratch we created the brand concept, name, identity, packaging, print material etc. All photos and designs © 2008, 2009 Musuta Ltd.

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Musuta Ltd. Studio, Tokyo, Japan

2009-03-21T14:29:00.007+02:00

Perfect location, 3minutes from Shibuya station!
東京都渋谷区桜丘町

Acidchic Flyer

2009-03-21T12:14:00.004+02:00

ACIDCHIC in Store

2009-03-21T12:05:00.006+02:00

One of numerous campaigns designed for MSCHIC Concept store. This one was for powder. Our concept for the store enables the shop to change its look and feel totally for each campaign with big posters and lots and lots of stickers plastered around the mirrors.

ACIDCHIC for MSCHIC

2009-03-19T14:52:00.006+02:00

Snowbleach in MSCHIC Concept store

2009-03-11T16:53:00.007+02:00

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SNOWBLEACH for MSCHIC

2009-02-26T09:20:00.002+02:00

MUSUTAhome featured in Japanese Scandinavian Life & Design Magazine

2009-02-26T09:14:00.002+02:00

MSCHIC PRO - IN STORE CAMPAIGN

2009-02-20T15:32:00.002+02:00

Jopsu made some new designs for MSCHIC PRO in store campaign.

more MSCHICPRO

2009-02-16T16:22:00.004+02:00

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MSCHICPRO - New Campaign

2009-02-16T16:06:00.002+02:00

VALNETINE'S CAMPAIGN IN MSCHIC STORE

2009-02-09T10:43:00.007+02:00

This is how the Valentine's campaign looks in store. Hundreds of small heart stickers plastered all over. Cute.

VALENTINE'S CAMPAIGN FOR MSCHIC

2009-02-05T13:38:00.003+02:00

Design Jopsu made for MSCHIC valentine's day campaign.
We'll also decorate the store with hundreds of small heart stickers.

2009-02-04T17:17:00.002+02:00

Jopsu made a logo sketch for a up and coming Finnish movie.

MSCHIC COSMETICS STORE

2009-01-27T13:17:00.012+02:00

Our Head Designer Jopsu designed a store for MSCHIC Cosmetics, in downtown Helsinki. First color cosmetics store in Finland by a Finnish cosmetics brand.

PEPSI LOUNGE - KINOPALATSI HELSINKI

2009-01-26T17:52:00.008+02:00

We designed a lounge space for Pepsi to a movie theater in Helsinki. It includes two hand made paintings. One over 10 meters long and other 10 meters tall.
+ nine 42" LCD screens for branded entertainment.

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HOP

2008-08-13T15:32:00.002+03:00

New MUSUTA

2008-04-28T17:45:00.005+03:00

BANG!!! The new MUSUTA logo is here!

Pimpin' Da Office...

2008-04-28T17:34:00.006+03:00

Did some improvements here at JOJO MUSUTA....To make us all feel better!...

Here's a view from the street through our window:

The New Musuta Facade

Pepsi - A branding of a movie theater

2008-04-28T17:26:00.004+03:00

We did one interesting project for Pepsi. Branded a few walls in a movie theater..

Seems easy, but is not. First you gotta print lot's of sticker. Attach it to the wall. And if you happen to have 3 different shades of blue, it makes it kinda difficult to know where to paint and what.

It was fun though... We had some of our friends from Tre Design there to help us..

Yopsu & Yazka 2002

2007-11-22T16:26:00.000+02:00

This picture was drawn by Jaska. It was a promotional picture for our super cool TV- concept.
It never aired. Sad.

AKIKO CHIC COLLECTION Video

2007-11-21T11:50:00.001+02:00

Here is a pretty artsy video we made for MSCHIC Cosmetics.

The idea we had was to do something different with make up. We came up with an idea to animate make up with director Miikka Lommi from Kennel Helsinki. The video was shot by Aleksi Koskinen from Tre Film. Make up was done by MSCHIC Head Designer Mariela Sarkima. The video was edited by Antti Kulmala.

Interesting remark is that we had to clean and mask every single frame in the video by hand in Photoshop after shooting... This was because afterwards we decided to frame the picture differently than was planned before the shoot... Well that's what you get with still shots..

The video can also be found on the Akiko Chic website: http://www.akikochic.com

And on Vimeo here.

JASKA

2007-11-20T17:42:00.001+02:00

How to Administer Japanese 目薬 for a graphic Designer

2007-10-24T21:26:00.000+03:00

Take a close look, this is how you should properly use Japanese 目薬 on a graphic designer.

PINK THING

2007-10-24T21:07:00.000+03:00

-NAPPI JOTA EI SAA PAINAA
-SINAPPI JOTA EI SAA PAINAA
-ESINAPPI JOTA VAIN SEINÄ PAINAA
-VESINAPPI JOTA VAIN SEINÄ PAINAA
-LAPSIVESINÄPPI JOTA VAIN SEINÄ OSAA PAINAA
-VESINAPPI JOTA VAIN SEINÄ PAINAA
-LAPSIVESINÄPPI JOTA VAINOSEINÄ OSAA
PAINAA
-LAPSELLINEN VESINÄPPI JOILTA VAINOSEINÄ OSTAA RAINAA

JOJO MUSUTA: Experiments Vol. 1

2007-10-24T20:46:00.000+03:00

Here at JOJO MUSUTA we take our stuff seriously. That is exactly why we do loads of experiments. Here is just one of them:

2007-10-21T14:14:00.001+03:00

View from Jopsu´s work station....

2007-10-21T14:08:00.001+03:00

JOJO MUSUTA Survival Guide pt. 1

2007-10-15T21:24:00.000+03:00

Welcome to the JOJO MUSUTA Survival Guide.

In part one we demonstrate how to survive a typhoon and fend off boredom, while trapped on a remote Japanese island in Okinawa-ken (editors note: any island and typhoon will do).

Step One:
Make sure that there is a Typhoon approaching:

Step Two:
Observe as villagers anchor things down with heavy stuff:

Step Three:
Realize that the Typhoon just hit your island:

Step Four:
Take out your Typhoon supplies,
an Okinawan style Shamisen and a Bottle of Awamori:

Step Five:
Consume some Awamori and approach the Shamisen
in one of the following ways:

I. The Okinawan style as Yama-san here demonstrates:

II. The: I sure cannot play, but this is what they do on MTV-
style as Timo demonstrates:

Step Six:
Now you're all set, enjoy your musical abilities,
consume more Awamori and let the Typhoon blow by.

Enjoy more with JOJO MUSUTA Survival Tips™ the next time you encounter a typhoon!

Ordinary people with ordinary powers.

2007-10-10T17:15:00.000+03:00

How to Fold AKIKOCHIC-stuff....

2007-10-09T19:23:00.001+03:00

Poltergeist!

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Coloring Book

2007-10-09T18:35:00.001+03:00

Jaska´s tattoo

CEO-Timo Huhtala

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7AM

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"So we have clients & ideas... Well how about getting an office then.."

2007-10-09T15:43:00.000+03:00

Seems like a good idea... And it also seemed like a good idea to take on the job of actually renovating the place ourselves. "Sure thing, no problem. Just some paint on the walls, little bit of this and a little bit of that. A day - two, give or take..

"Note to self:

Rooms or offices that have surfaces, which the previous tenant has painted black are not easily tackled with white shades of paint."

So two weeks, no sleep, lot's of beer and gallons of paint (or was it lot's of paint and gallons of beer?) later. We have an office, or half and office, because we decided to let our basement keep its Fight Club Helsinki look for a while just for the heck of it (we'll fix it this weekend, or the next, or the one after, or...).

Getting the job done was really good thing because our neighbors started to get a bit wary about a bunch of people in white overalls, covered in paint, hangin' out on the street in the middle of the night. Some pretty bad ass overalls actually. The label on the package said that with those one can take on nuclear particles. So bring it on Russia - Bring out your Zsar Bombas! JOJO MUSUTA is prepared!

Well anyways... here are some before and after pics:

Black is the new and old black - unfortunately and painting depicting a Russian tattoo doesn't really help too much either.

We would still be looking for her, if she would've been wearing that popular tight black jeans + black t-shirt uniform all 'real' Helsinki -designers wear.

And you also had to paint the frickin' toilet black, now did you.

How about a stairway to... well nowhere.

Or a stairway to somewhere.

JOJO MUSUTA proudly presents:

Fight Club Helsinki

Lockers. Fighters need lockers.

So here we go.

Let it rip.

So you wanted to be the CEO. You can start by taring apart that structure in the ceiling. (this picture is also available for press use....aaah..bullshit, we'll slap you if you do that.)

Shazam!..... So here it is. Cute - yes.

Le toilet.

Stairs.

Da office.

In Da Office.

So that's about it. Pop in for a nice cuppa coffee (well we really don't have a coffee machine yet..) at Iso-Roobertinkatu. ...Or we can just go to the nearby Bali-Hai for some drinks.

"To hair do or not do hair..?"

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"So you´re the one doing shitty graphics, are you happy now?"

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Here Goes Nothing...

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...As Lando Carlissian so well puts it, when taking on the Death Star.

So off we go:

This is JOJO MUSUTA and JOJO MUSUTA is no one.

...well at least JOJO MUSUTA doesn't carry any particular meaning - or maybe it does. You figure it out... In real life we are a concept design studio located in the heart of Helsinki, Finland, but that you might have already known by stumbling over to our blog in the first place.

In this blog you'll find things that move and shake us, or stuff that we just feel like putting out for the public to see or maybe just things that make us laugh. Rant, rave, comment or just sit back and enter the minds at JOJO MUSUTA...

...and yeah, this still is just a blog, not the Death Star. So I might have overstated a bit in the beginning of this post...