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16 articles
サガミオリジナル | LOVE DISTANCE | 2016
A couple in a long-distance relationship start running toward each other from opposite sides of the screen. A number starting at 1.2 billion millimeters keeps shrinking as they get closer. I never imagined that the number it ends on, 0.02, could hit this hard.
NIKE | JASARI (NIKEiD) - If you were a boy | 2015
Made in Japan, but you'd never guess it. A spot that's NIKE through and through.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 | OBAMA FOR AMERICA | 2009
At Cannes in 2009, the jury did something no political campaign had ever had done to it before. They gave it two Grand Prix at once, in Titanium and Integrated, and both decisions were unanimous.
Nike | Take It To The Next Level | 2008
This film traces a soccer player's path from amateur beginnings all the way to the national team, all seen through his own eyes. Honestly, the idea of doing it in first-person view is something you might think of on your own. But the scale here is different, and so is the money behind it. The sheer luxury of lining up Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Wayne Rooney, Cesc Fàbregas, Zlatan Ibrahimović, and even manager Arsène Wenger. Of course it was directed by Guy Ritchie. Just picturing it is fun.
複数企業協賛（ツインリンクもてぎ、20世紀FOX映画、読売新聞） | Friend-Ship Project 第4弾 家族の絆「ゆうなの夏休み」 | 2008
A five-minute family story woven together by two fine actors, Nao Omori and Sachiko Sakurai. Apparently this was one of those reversed projects where the client is decided first, and then creators make a long-form commercial around them. This was the fourth installment of that project, and the density of it—packing in all of life's bitter and sweet—was really something.
SONY | PLAY-DOH | 2008
Rabbits filling up an entire city. And here's the thing: this isn't CGI. It's all stop-motion. It's completely insane.
MICROSOFT | Halo 3: Believe - John 117 Monument | 2008
It's an ad for a video game, but no game footage shows up anywhere in it. All you get is an old soldier recalling memories of war, and a massive 110-square-meter battlefield diorama. This ad treated Halo 3 like it was a real war.
7-ELEVEN | KWIK-E-MART | 2008
A real convenience store disguised as a fake convenience store from a cartoon. And not just one store, but twelve. And done in a single night. The side that had been mocked by The Simpsons as a symbol of unhealthy eating put on that insult like a full costume and wore it proudly.
UNIQLO | UNIQLOCK | 2008
In 2007, the clock that kept more people awake than any other was born. UNIQLOCK is a blog widget that marks time with music and dance. Once you stick it on the side of your blog, you'll find yourself watching the five-second changes for ten minutes before you know it.
ホンダ | オデッセイ「いいクルマが好きだ。男ですから。」 | 2008
George Clooney just walks coolly through the streets of Milan. That's all it is, and yet it's absolutely captivating.
SONY | REC YOU | 2008
In 2008, SONY launched "REC YOU," a campaign built around a wild experience: send in a photo of your face, and it starts singing along to music. The submitted faces flooded banner ads, street-side screens, TV shows, and blog widgets everywhere. Digital technology and cross-media power combined as a trio to show off "the new world of Walkman."
THE TIMES OF INDIA NEWSPAPER | Lead India | 2008
At Cannes Lions 2008, India's first-ever Grand Prix didn't go to a drink or a car, but to a newspaper. And it wasn't just an ad campaign, either. It was the story of a newspaper that seriously tried to raise up the country's next leaders.
PETRONAS | TAN HONG MING IN LOVE | 2008
A seven-year-old boy who wasn't even supposed to be the subject of the shoot ended up winning Malaysia's first-ever Gold Lion at Cannes. No script, none at all.
MINI | BOOST | 2008
In 2008, MINI won gold with a piece called "BOOST." Just from the title, you get the sense it's going to give you a push forward. But what it actually involved, I still don't quite know.
ABSOLUT VODKA | ABSOLUT MACHINES | 2008
In 2008, robot orchestras showed up in Stockholm and New York. Someone, somewhere in the world, would send a short melody over the web, and the machines would "interpret" it on the spot, turning it into a three-minute song. It was a wonderfully romantic experiment cooked up by Absolut.
江崎グリコ | OTONA GLICO 〜25年後の磯野家〜 | 2008
In 2008, Sazae-san got a live-action adaptation nobody saw coming. And the premise was wild: it was set 25 years in the future. Tadanobu Asano as Katsuo, Rie Miyazawa as Wakame, Eita as Tara-chan, Shun Oguri as Ikura-chan. The casting alone was enough to make people go "wait, you can actually do that?"—a real testament to the strength of the idea.