Hidetoshi Kuranari
Hidetoshi’s career began in Dentsu Inc.’s Creative division, in 2000. In less than a year he had already won four major international awards including Cannes,NYADC and three domestic awards along side creating various products with his colleagues. In 2007 he moved to Barcelona to join Marti Guixe’s studio as a product design planner. Suitably qualified as Guixe’s first ever Japanese “Ex-Designer”, he then returned to Tokyo to put his creative skills in advertisement and communication to use in a number of creative projects. As a creative producer he has provided support for the APEC 2010 conference, Tokyo Motor Show (2011), IMF-World Bank conference Tokyo (2012), Arita Porcelain Revitalization project (2016), as well as collaborated with many other incubation divisions of clients. He founded Dentsu team B,which has 56 members,each of them have personal B-sides besides making advertisement (=A-side), and continues to generate new innovative projects with clients, using original alternative approach. He also founded experiential education labo to make education more creative applying creative skill in advertisement industry.
Award
Cannes International Creative Award- Silver x2,bronze,MediaLion / NY Art Directors Club - Silver,Bronze x2 / NYfestival - Bronze / Good Design Award - 2008,2009,2013 Best100,2015,2016 Best100,2017 Gold&Best100 / Kids Design Award x2 / ACC - Gold,Silver,Bronze / Tokyo Copy Writers Club Award / Adstars - Gold / Times asia-pacific advertising awards -Silver / Adfest - Silver,Bronze / Spikes Asia - Gold,Silver / AD&D / Yomiuri Advertisement Award - Grandprix / Mainichi Advertisement Award - Grandprix / Asahi Advertisement Award - second prize / Souvenior Award and more