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MIHARU MATSUNAGA
松永美春 - HAMI
Art Director
Creative Director
Designer
Tokyo and Sweden
"I work in the design, branding, and advertisement industry where I use my design skills to develop ideas and nonverbal language to solve challenges facing clients. Advertisements are such by nature that people are forced to see them every day but as I see it advertisements could also be a free delivery system for interesting art and thought-provoking concepts and so not only help clients to sell a product but be a positive part of our shared culture. Even if it is only about beautifying the world, one poster at a time."
Her awards include D&AD, Cannes Lions, One Show, and NY ADC She has won over 40 awards.
Miharu Matsunaga is an art director and designer from Japan working in Tokyo. She has a degree in Graphical Design from Tama Art University, At 17age she started to study art, graphic design, and drawing. At present, she is in Dentsu.inc and Drill.inc.
東京・スウェーデンを拠点に活動するグラフィックデザイナー。アートディレクター。クリエーティブディレクター。
多摩美術大学グラフィックデザイン学科卒業、デザイナーとして活動。
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2023 JAGDA Award /JAGDA賞
2023 ADFEST Gold2022 D&AD Yellow Pencil and Wood Pencil
2022 Cannes Lions Bronze
2022 One Show Film Craft Gold
2022 ADFEST Film Craft Grand Prix
2022 MAD STARS Gold
2022 Spikes Asia Film Craft Sliver
2021 ACC Film Silver
2020 Tokyo Typo Directors Club Pre nomination2019 Young Lions Design in Japan Bronze
2019 ADFEST Design Silver
2018 Tokyo ADC pre-nomination
2018 Film Young Lions in Japan finalist
2018 Design Young Lions in Japan Silver2017 Good design award in Japan
2017 Cannes Lions Design Lion Shortlist
2017 NY ADC 2017 Bronze×2
2017 One Show merit×2
2017 London International Awards Design Bronze2017 Joined Cannes Young Lions competition as team Japan
2016 APA AWARD Grand Prix
2016 Good Design award in Japan BEST 100
2016 YOUNG LIONS DESIGN in JAPAN GOLD2016 Spikes Asia Media competition as team Japan
2015 APA AWARD THE MERIT
2015 Music Hack Day 2015 First-Prize
2015 Tokyo Art Directors Club Pre-nomination
2015 Advertising Age young cover competition finalist
2015 One show winner presentation in NY
2015 One show Bronze2015 Spikes Asia Print competition as team Japan in 2015
2014 Young Cannes in Japan category Young Film:Finalist2013 Spiks Asia 2013 category Young Print:Finalist
2013 Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2013 in book
2013 Asahi Newspaper advertising prize
2011 Yomiuri advertising first prize
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Nelly Rodi.inc from France
POCARI SWEAT Otsuka Corporation, Ltd
McDonald's inc
TOSHIBA.inc
TQA.inc
THE GOAL.INC
COMP.INC
PRMAL
STPR
Jukusen
Yokohama City Board of Education
NPO -nonprofit organization-
Japan-China Advertising Educational Project
KURAYA.INC
Imyu.inc and dejavu.inc
Elementary school in Yokohama city
ENISHI SAKE
Japan Sake festival+ more
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1989 Born in Yokohama
2007 Tama Art University graphic design dept.
2007 Camera assistant at magagine agency
2011 Start working at Dentsu.inc
2017 North Kingdom in Sweden that is exchange program joined as intern.
2018-2019 Joined Design lead Program in Hyper Island in Stockholm
2019 Joined Bedow for one month internship as designer2019 Joined B-Reel for five months internship as creative intern
2020 Dentsu.inc in Communication Design Center Division
2021 Dentsu zero / Drill.inc
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2015/2018/2021/2022/2023 ADC exhibition in ggg gallery in Tokyo
2016/2017/2023 JAGDA Design Hub exhibition at Tokyo Mid Town2016 New York ADC exhibition
2016 /2017 Good design award exhibition at Tokyo Mid Town
2019 J-COLLABO exhibition in New York / Silver prize -
2015-2020 MDn Designer file
2014-2021 Commercial Photo magazine Best advertisement2014- 2020 PIE Books
2015 Advertising Age cover selection
2015 Dentsu-ho
2016 Design Note the young Designer 100
2017-2018 Sketch of Desiginer book
2019 Gaati gallery book from China
2020 MdN Design Making ‘188 designers selection’
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2016/2017/2020 Guest speaker in ‘The school by chance’ in Tokyo
2020 Awwwards conference in Tokyo
2020 Awwwards Academy「ビジュアルアイデアの作り方」日本語