BIO

MASASHI KAWAMURA
1979 BORN IN TOKYO, RAISED IN SAN FRANCISCO, LIVING IN NEW YORK
ART DIRECTOR / FILM DIRECTOR / CREATIVE DIRECTOR / WHATEVER
(current: Creative Director & co-Founder of PARTY Inc.)
mail: masa@prty.jp

AWARDS:

Good Design Award Best 100
Spikes Asia Mobile Grad Prix & Gold x2, Silver x3, Bronze
Tokyo TDC 2010 & 2012 TDC Award,
Space Shower TV MVA Special Prize,
Andy Awards Bronze,
Tokyo Interactive Advertising Award Best of Show,
Cannes Design Lions Gold & Bronze
Cannes Cyber Lion Silver x3 & Bronze x2,
Cannes Mobile Lions Gold x2,
Cannes Film Lion Shortlist,
Cannes Print Lion Shortlist,
Cannes Titanium Lion Shortlist,
One Show Design Best of Show & Gold,
One Show Interactive Bronze,
One Show Entertainment Silver,
NY ADC Gold x2, Silver x2, Bronze x2
Clio Silver & Bronze,
Adfest Innova Lotus x2,
Adfest Cyber Lotus Grand Prize & Gold & Silver x5,
Adfest Design Lotus Grand Prize & Gold & Silver,
Adfest Film Lotus Silver,
Webbys Award Online Film Best Editing People's Voice Award & Nomination x7 & Honoree x8,
Annecy International Animated Film Festival Best Music Video,
Space Shower 2011 Best Music Video Nomination,
Ars Electronica Honorary Mention,
Spikes Asia Digital Gold,
FWA Site of the Month,
FWA Site of the Day x 5,
London International Awards NEW Category Silver,
NY ADC 90 CFE Competition Winner,
UK VMA Best Budget Video,
Vimeo Award Shortlist,
D&AD Nomination,
Tomorrow Award,
Animanima Film Festival Winner,
YouTube Video Award 2009,
Ann Arbor Film Festival selection,
Uner Hort Musikfilm festival Hamburg Best Music Video,
Creative Heads Competition,
Print in Motion Music Video Winner,
Tokyo Media Arts Festival Grand Prize,
Portable Film Festival Grand Prize,
Born Shorts Film Festival Grand Prize,
Asia Pacific Effie Award Gold,
Kokoku Hihyo Top 10 Music Video 2007,
Tokyo ADC & Hiromu Hara Award,
Japan Prize,
Galaxy Award,
NY Festival Bronze,
Mainichi Advertising Design Award,
ACC Silver,
Hakuhodo President Award,
JAGDA Golden Egg Award, Senden Kaigi,
Good Design Award,
Prix Danube Award,
Prix Jeunesse Award,
etc

RECOGNITION:

Spikes Asia 2012 Independant Agency of the Year
37 Creatives Most Lusted After By Rival Agencies, Business Insider 2012
Fast Company 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012
Creativity Top 50 Creatives 2011
SHOOT New Directors Showcase 2011
Tokyo Interactive Advertising Award 2010 Best Creator Award
NY ADC Young Guns 6
AMD Enami Naomi Award

IN MEDIA:

+81 Vol.58 Next Creative Generation in Asia, Japan
CAMPAIGN ASIA, Hong Kong
CREATIVE REVIEW, UK
TBS Otonano, Japan
NHK Connect, Japan
NTV Zip!, Japan
Brutus, Japan
Marquee, Japan
SWITCH, Japan
Fast Company, USA
CONTAGIOUS, UK
MADE & SOLD, UK
BUG TV, UK
PRINT, USA
LEUTERS, USA
CNN, USA
CANAL+, France
OBJECT, Australia
ART4D, Thailand
COMPUTER ARTS, Thailand
CG MAGAZINE, China
COMPUTER ARTS, China
BRAIN, Sendenkaigi, Japan
WEB DESIGNING, Japan
KOKOKU HIHYOU, Japan
SENDEN KAIGI, Japan
CM JOURNAL, Japan
COMMERCIAL PHOTO, Japan
DTP WORLD, Japan
UNDERSTAND DESIGN, Japan
ASAHI NEWSPAPER, Japan
NIKKEI DESIGN, Japan
SOTO KOTO, Japan
MEZAMASHI TV, Japan
JAPANESE MOTION GRAPHIC CREATORS 2009, BNN Inc, Japan
JAPANESE MOTION GRAPHIC CREATORS 2010, BNN Inc, Japan
MdN Designers File 2011, Japan
Haaretz, Israel
Commercial Photo 'The Next Generation Creators', Japan
idN, Hong Kong
Cyzo, Japan

LECTURES & JURY:

Google Think, Speaker, Japan
I@T Conference, Speaker, Taiwan
Business of Design Week, Speaker, Hong Kong
Project Fly Speaker, Buenos Aires
Tomorrow Award 2012 Jury, USA
I@T 2012 Speaker, Taiwan
Valet Curator, USA
DesignYatra 2012 Speaker, India
SONY CSL presentation, Tokyo
TTI Vanguard Conference Speaker, USA
TEDxTokyo 2012 Speaker, Japan
NY ADC Young Guns10 Jury, USA
Google Creative Sandbox, France
Cannes Cyber Lion Jury, France
Andy Awards Jury, USA
One Click Award 2011 Jury, Japan
Windows Digital Media Consorcium, Microsoft, Japan
Creative Direction Seminar, Sendenkaigi, Japan
Tokyo TDC Award 2011 RGB category Jury, Japan
TED Ads worth spreading, USA
Ad:Tech Tokyo Speaker, Japan
CREATIVITY Creative Roundhouse, USA
Yale University Lecture, USA
ADC Young Guns Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan
Dommune Media Art Night, Japan
Ginza Ignition, Japan
Creative Kitchen, Japan
Spikes Asia New Independant Agency Showcase, Singapore
CCGE Lecture, Japan
YOUNG GUNS 8 CHOICE CUTS MODERATOR, USA
#FFF MEDIA ARTS NIGHT, Japan
TDC STOLEN BRAND SEMINAR, Indonesia
SVA SPECIAL LECTURE, USA
CREATIVE HEADS COMPETITION, France
AICP 2010 STUDENT AWARD JURY, USA
NY ADC 2010 HYBRID JURY, USA
TCDC CREATIVITY UNFOLD 2010, Thailand
MIAMI AD SCHOOL AMSTERDAM SPECIAL LECTURE, Netherlands
TDC DAY 2010, Japan
PUBLIC/IMAGE 3D NAOKI ITO x MASASHI KAWAMURA, Japan
APMT5 CREATIVE CONFERENCE, Japan
KEIO UNIVERSITY SFC BRANDING THEORY, Japan
MAINICHI NEWSPAPER, Japan
Member of ADC & IADAS

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