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W+K Tokyo + PlayStation

Last night we found out that our Tokyo office won PlayStation! A few people from Portland helped Tokyo with the pitch, so we had a little international champagne toast to celebrate. Congrats to everyone in the Tokyo office for winning such an awesome piece of business!

From Portland:

From Tokyo:

WK Lab: Maledict Car

Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo Lab has won a gold medal at this years One Show Design Awards for the video Maledict Car.

Check out all the winners on Creativity Online.

CGM W+K Tokyo

Reposted from Danny Choo.com.  Back in September, I organized a gathering of bloggers, YouTubers, and folks in IT and related industries (media and creative) at the Wieden and Kennedy Tokyo offices. The intent of the gathering is for a room of like minded folks to share and network with each other which would lead to new opportunities and general harmony.

The next gathering date has been set for the 6th of Feb (Friday) and this time I have partnered with a fellow Britannian Andrew Shuttleworth to organize the next event.

The focus of the meeting has changed a bit too - The event will be called "Tokyo CGM Night" where CGM stands for "Consumer Generated Media." The event will be a gathering of the leaders in CGM - bloggers, YouTubers, Social Networkers and folks who like to share. The event will also be attended by IT folks from the top Internet companies in Tokyo including Amazon, Microsoft and Google. And then there will be folks from related industries such as media and design.

Check out the rest of the article here.

Oh No you did not

Now we love Jessica Staples and so do the folks at Elle-online. Below is an article about Jess when she was found on the street in Japan.

曇り空が続くパリの街なかで、ブルーを基調にしたコーディネートがひときわ目立っていたのは、広告プロデューサーのジェシカ。「リラックスしたスタイルが好き」と話すだけあって、この日選んだのもルーズなパンツ。ただし、仕事の打ち合わせでも通用するように、ジャケットを合わせたのがポイントなのだそう。ちなみに、カーディガンをマフラー代わりに使うテクニックは、11月3日に登場してくれたジャスティンも実践。 Via Bablefish Trans-fat-lation:

In Paris town where the cloud continues, as for the coordination which designates the blue as keynote conspicuously having been conspicuous, [jieshika] of the announcement producer. Because with “the style which relaxes speaks the favorite”, this day choosing the loose underpants. However, in order to pass even in previous arrangement of work, those where the jacket is adjusted being the point it probably will put out. By the way, the technique which uses the cardigan in the muffler substituting practices also the JAS tin which appears on November 3rd.

elle.co.jp

Nucleus Exhibits "Tokyo.Ten"

If you are in LA, The Gallery Nucleus in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra is hosting the "Tokyo.Ten: 42 Views of Tokyo" exhibit from November 1 to November 17. The art show displays the collaborative output of 42 artists in the fields of video, illustration, and music.

Human Race Tokyo

Amy Corcoran and Sandi Hildreth won a free trip to the city of their choice for the Nike Human Race this past weekend. They decided on Mt. Fuji, Japan and got to run with the Tokyo office folks.











Good job guys. Check out more from Tokyo on the WK Tokyo blog.

W+K Hifana Debuts in France

Hifana, with their original live performance and musical works that's been highly regarded outside of Japan ... is now finally making their debut in France!　 French label called "delabel" / EMI France will release the French version of their latest album "Connect" (DVD+CD with bonus tack / video) on June 9th, 2008.

Besides 7 bonus tracks from the 1st/2nd album, a bonus video will include the masterpiece video which was produced in collaboration with W+K Tokyo Lab, such as "Fat Bros" selected as one of the best 12 short films by NYC THE ONE SHOW FILM (2004) and "WAMONO" which received excellent prize in Media Art Festival by Agency of Cultural Affairs of Japan (2005) and Best CG & Animation award by Space Shower TV MVA (2006).

Furthermore, prior to the overseas debut, their exclusive live tracks will be released through iTunes in 22 countries in late May. Hifana will perform special live set for this exclusive release and the event "iTunes Live from Tokyo - After Hours" at Apple Store in Shibuya on 4/20 coming Sunday. This event will be the first trial for Apple Japan, starting live event from 10pm after closing the store. Many guest artists will be featured as well. Don't miss it.

iTunes Live from Tokyo - After Hours
HIFANA　SPECIAL LIVE
Date : April 20th (Sun) Open / Start 22:00
Location : Apple Store in Shibuya
*The first come, the first enter, there is limitation of the number who can get in the venue.

W+K Tokyo's newest client - GYRE.

Gyre is a new building by architectual stars, MVRDV and W+K Tokyo. For W+K Tokyo, this was a culmination of a year and half process, beginning with concepting the building’s name to designing it’s logo, signage, information booklets, as well as the advertising including the train and station jacks of Omotesando station. W+K Tokyo was also involved in the creative direction for the website and its integration to the interactive installation connecting shoppers through their cell phones to the buildling and its theme of “SHOP AND THINK”.

Check it out: GYRE

BORING 747. Cleared For Takeoff...

Our friend Shunsuke Iwai from Tokyo recently started a Blog. Check it out here. Shunsuke is a self-proclaimed singer, frequent flyer, airplane geek and soon to be pilot. And he's also a copywriter for our Tokyo office. In addition to his blog, the guy has a cool site cleverly masked as an airport website. We like.

2007 Pie-off!

With the Holidays already knocking on the door, it's time again for the Wieden+Kennedy Annual Pie-Off Competition. As expected the competition was fierce. The only thing that had more bite was some of the public slayings of pies that were not up to par.

There were 67 entries and they were all great especially the one that spent 96 hours in transit from Tokyo (thank you Makiko for the effort).

Everyone should be proud.

The results are as follows for the 8th annual competition:
Intergalactic PIE Champion - Allison Bick for her Berry Pie. She is now a two-time winner.

Champions of the categories were as follows:
Pumpkin/Nut - Meredith Hatten
Berry/Fruit - Allison Bick
Chocolate - Britton Taylor
Cream/Meringue - Kristy Fulwider
Straight-Up Apple - Liz Nelson
Specialty Apple - Terra Cloyes
Cheesecake - Tara Allender
Thank you pie makers.

Thank you judges

Thank you Mary, Jinnina and Rhodesy for their help.

Happy Holidays!