Umika chose the theme this week: “I chose summer beause I thought there would be many different images that can be reffered to a season,and I wanted to see what kind of image everyone would bring up. And now, the season is summer… ”

*Olivier

“For my personnal feelings, summer means sunset, sea and kids. I wanted to show these three elements in 15 seconds and trying to include them all together.”

*Umika

“The image of summer has a lot of things such as ocean, mountain, sun in a blue sky, sunflower, butterflies, fireworks, or kaki-goori. I wanted to put everything of those image in my movie, so I made it as a TV commercial for a camera. “

Hi everyone, today, I am very proud to present you the second part of our new corporate identity documents: the DVD&CD case and package.

As for Wedovideo’s envelopes, letterheads and compliment cards, Julien Mercier alias Julmeme did the researches, design proposal, printing assistance, and the printing was done in Hong-Kong.

Company folder, presentation leaflet and presentation template are to come soon.

*Package folder:

*Package folder and DVD&CD case:

*DVD&CD case:

Week 1 : Coffe 5s to 30s

The thema is simple and yet very wide.
We choose to show only 2 peoples works as it’s an internal project and those were very nice.

*Umika

“I made this video as we can change the text to Shop name or product name. So it can apply to any kind of scene.”

*Alex

“I chose to film people and to stay on the mood of making coffee rather than showing cups and spoon as my feeling toward coffee is that it’s also a social link between people as cigarette and alcohol to me.”

A while ago I had the idea to introduce challenges within Wedovideo, in order to stimulate artistic and aesthetic vision for everybody on a personal level.

The idea is simple: every week we take a random theme (or is it really random?), we add conditions, and the next week we review everybody’s work.
It doesn’t have to be the greatest movie of all time, but it’s good to see everyone’s approach on a similar subject and compare the differences.

Trollbäck + Company is a New York-based creative studio producing graphics, design and live action for advertising, broadcast, and entertainment. Founded in 1999 by Jakob and Lisa Trollbäck, the studio is led by creative directors Jakob Trollbäck and Joe Wright and has received dozens of creative-industry awards.

The interesting thing to notice is that Trollbäck + Company was created by someone who didn’t come from a design background. Jakob started as a DJ in Northern Europe and became interested in type and graphics in motion. He puts very special attention to sound and music in his work and even though is studio doesn’t create the most complicated pieces of motion design in the world, their works are very much about simplicity and feeling, rather than simply nice eye candy.

We feel close to this company as we also create motion graphics for events and show openings, and we are gaining ground with experience and skill to someday match their level. Their work is always a great source of inspiration.

Here is a selection of their most impressive videos, including this great video below for P&G

Watch a QuickTime video rendering of Trollbäck + Company’s motion design for the IAC video wall (one of the largest in the world).

P&G video

http://www.trollback.com/blog/?p=1278

And event opening videos :

*2010 AICP Show opening

http://www.trollback.com/blog/?p=1314

*NY Science festival :

http://www.trollback.com/blog/?p=1308

Links:
*Trollbäck + Company’s website

*Magazine newsletter
*Some more info about them

These studios inspire us in many ways and are a great source of creative thinking in our daily works – We don’t consider them as competitors, but rather as elder brothers, companies that have been in the market for a while and that have lead motion design to its current position.

Trollbäch + Company office in New York

Wedovideo has more and more projects in China. Alex spends half his time there, mostly in Shanghai, but also in Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou etc….

And it is not about to stop! Next step –> a branch in China!

This membership enables us to meet new French, Japanese but also people from different countries, living and working in Japan.

This membership is not only interesting for the networks and events, but also for the services provided: recruitment, training, directory with very useful references, commercial service and publications.

The CCIFJ has many publications, available in French and Japanese, dealing with very interesting subjects regarding the Japanese market, interviews of CEO etc… Some are periodical: ”L’annuaire des membres”, “France Japon Eco”, “L’Hebdo du Japon” and “La Lettre Mensuelle”, and some exceptional one.

Last month, two articles about Wedovideo were published in “La Lettre Mensuelle”, directed by Gilles de Lesdain. One Edito about firms creation in Japan mentioning Alex’s experience: Création d’entreprises au Japon, la parole aux entrepreneurs (Firms creation in Japan by the entrepreneurs). The other one about Wedovideo itself, as a new member of the CCIFJ: Wedovideo, des vidéos pour la communication en qualité cinéma (Wedovideo, videos for communication in cinema quality).

Links
Website: http://www.ccifj.or.jp/
Publications: http://www.ccifj.or.jp/vie-de-la-chambre/publications.html

Today, I am very proud to present you the first part of our new corporate identity documents.

These documents are essential in our office daily life, to send letters, introduce our company to potential clients, keep a privileged link with our clients… We already had some, done by ourselves. But we were looking for a real design and sense research.

That’s why we chose Julien Mercier alias Julmeme, a Swiss Graphic Designer from Tokyo, to create our corporate identity, except for our logo (designed by Niko). Julien did research, design proposal, modifications and printing assistance and it’s very great working with him.

This week we received the envelopes, letterheads and compliment cards from the Hong Kong printer.

But that’s not all, to follow: company folder and presentation leaflet, CD and DVD case, DVD folder and presentation template.

Here is Julmeme’s design proposal:

And here the result:

When working in a business where the work rhythm is quite hectic the second necessary tool in Japan is the coffee machine.

For example, imagine yourself being prepared to leave your office at 7 pm and then you receive the following message: The event report edit you take 3 days to realize has been destroyed by some clients crazy children or whatever you want and you have to reedit it by tomorrow 10 am. When this happens your only feeling is to thank God for inspiring in 1800 its Minister Jean Baptiste de Belloy, Archbishop of Paris, the concept of the first coffee machine.

For sure, even if our Archbishop did not do it on purpose, he ultimately helps thousands of creatives and office workers.

An other example of time when the coffee machine became the savior of the office people is the following day of our editing craziness or late night shooting following day. At those time the sanity of our creative team relies completely on the coffee machine. Everyone is afraid of its possible reactions or dysfunction.

The problem is that even if the taste greatly improves, the risk of failure rose in parallel with technical improvement… and so does the risk of nervous breakdown…