8.6.10

Manmaru - Adrien Dufond, Paris

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:

31.5.10

European Design Awards 2010 - Urban Abstract awarded!

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!


24.5.10

Double I - Identity Design

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









11.5.10

Jopo, downshifting in Tokyo

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.

23.4.10

Urban Abstract made the Book in D&AD Awards!

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!


5.3.10

Urban Abstract shortlisted!

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!

18.2.10

MERRY™ logo design :)









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!