Topawards Asia’s winning works were just announced.
Ishiguro from OUWN served as one of the judges.
TOP AWARD ASIA web site >>
Topawards Asia is an “invitation-only package design award” limited to Asia.
Superb package designs from all over Asia are nominated through recommendations by the Topawards Asia team,
past winners, and regular users,
with the best creators serving as the judges.
We are thankful for having received this honorable opportunity.

Ishiguro from OUWN was featured in Graphis Journal #369, a journal that is periodically published by “Graphis,” a prestigious international organization based in New York that has been publishing award-winning works both digitally and physically since 1944.
We received comments from many of our clients, including from THE SUIT COMPANY, MATSUKAZE, KINTO, and MIYOSHI sake, and as OUWN, we found the article very interesting and full of gratitude. We sincerely thank all the parties involved.

For the Tokyo TDC Awards 2021,
3 posters,
of which the Art Direction and Design was under Ishiguro from OUWN,
have been nominated,
namely,
“GIVE UP PLASTIC”,
“BLACK and BLOCK”, and
“SCRAMBLE SQUARE MOTHER’S and FATHER’S day”.
They will be featured in the annually published TDC Awards archive set to be released at the beginning of autumn.
We will continue to do our very best to maintain and improve on our work.

Sincerely,
OUWN

A New Year’s greeting card designed by OUWN’s Ishiguro will be displayed in the “New Year’s Cards from 100 Creators” exhibition this year too.
He designed a New Year’s greeting card using a bit different kind of paper made from grass.
We are still being dragged down by the corona disaster, but this will be a fun exhibition for those who are interested in design and printing,
as well as the general public, because of the familiarity of New Year’s greeting cards.
If you are ever in the neighborhood, please stop by.

Friday, January 22 – Friday, February 26, 2021

Venues (three locations simultaneously)
Mihoncho Main Store 2F
3-18-3 Kanda Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0054 [map]
TEL: 03-3292-3669

Closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 11:00-18:00 *Business hours have been changed from the originally announced hours.
(+ Yodoyabashi Mihoncho, Fukuoka Mihoncho)
Mihoncho Main Store and Fukuoka Mihoncho are closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. Yodoyabashi Mihoncho is not closed during the exhibition period.

KINTO’s baby’s cutlery set “BONBO” has been awarded a bronze medal in the “household goods,
general merchandise, and medicine” department of the Japan Packaging Design Awards 2021.

https://www.jpda.or.jp/…/2020/09/2021awards_list0909m.pdf

“BONBO” produces tableware for babies and kids that make meals and snacks memorable and joyful moments.

The adorable product is white in color to emphasize the colors of the food,
has an organic round form, and can be microwaved as well as put in dishwashers◎

The packaging depicts heartwarming images of joyful days and
memories that metaphorically imply sunny days and a bright sun,
while the bottom is adorned with a black facade of the image on the front, symbolizing the shadow created by the bright sun.

Other than that,
our new packaging for the 180ml Miyoshi Blue (rice wine)
http://ouwn.jp/work/sake-miyoshi-blue
and Waterfront package were also nominated.
http://ouwn.jp/work/water-front

About BONBO
Please find the details here↓

[KINTO BONBO] https://kinto.co.jp/collections/bonbo
We would like to thank everyone involved.

Some of OUWN’s designs were picked up by Pai International in their book
“Advertising Layout Design with Appealing Shapes”.

Thank you all very much for your efforts.

The rough sketch of the KINTO tumbler that Ishiguro was involved in designing,
was introduced in “ROUGH SKETCH OF ART DIRECTOR & DESIGNER:
A Collection of First-Class Creator’s Thoughts and Ideas” by M.D.N. Corporation.

The creation of OWN’s logo was picked up from various angles,
including the logical thought process when it comes to logo design in
“A Textbook of Logo Design” written by Aki Ueda,
which features usable ideas taken from sample logos.
Thank you very much.

Yumi Idei’s work as an art director at OUWN was posted
on the CREATOR’S VALUE page for issue No. 91 of “Design Note,” a magazine from Seibundo Shinkosha Publishing.