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.
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.
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.'
...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!
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!