COUNTDOWN TO BEAUTY

TitleCOUNTDOWN TO BEAUTY
BrandHOYU3210
Product / ServiceHAIR STYLING PRODUCT
CategoryA04. Best Use of Ambient Media: Small Scale
EntrantADK JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company:ADK JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency:ADK JAPAN Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Credits

Name Company Position
Tomohiro Sakurai ADK Creative Director
Mutsumi Ajichi ADK Art Director
Kunikazu Hoshiba Katachi Art Director
Hideo Fujimoto ADK Copywriter
Murakami Takashi/ Hiro Kinoshita Katachi Designer
Yasuhiro Nagae Iro Designer
Kazuya Nakajima ADK Planner
SatoruYokokawa ADK Agency Producer
Kouhei Fjimoto ADK Communication Planner
Kenji Katsu Bg Navi Promotion Director
Atsuo Ota ADK Chubu General Manager
Masahito Watanabe  ADK Chubu Group Account Manager
Hiroshi Miyamoto ADK Chubu Account Director
Nobuyuki Tanaka ADK Chubu Account Supervisor

Results and Effectiveness

Among the highly competitive professional hair salons, the product was highly evaluated, and was introduced successfully. Since this was a kind of product that the salon stylists had never seen before, it was taken up in many salon blogs as a remarkable new product. The product not only answered to the brief, but also established a substantial position within the professional hair styling products market, and achieved 120% of the initial sales goal.

Creative Execution

The concept for this brand is “countdown”. As the stylist gets closer to finishing the hair, the customer’s anticipation reaches a high point. Thus the naming, “3210”. The container also represents something in the making, in the process of being finished. The mould was produced by hand, without using any computer graphics, in an effort to create a shape that begged to be touched. We also produced a new product presentation box for hair stylists. Doing double duty as in in-store display, the distinctive box conveyed the 3210 worldview with stylish impact.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

Hoyu is a well established brand in the Japanese professional hair color products market, but a newcomer in professional hair styling products. The brief was to introduce Hoyu professional styling products into the very competitive, top-class hair salons, and establish a presence, using a very bold and memorable approach. A totally new concept and the development of a new design were necessary. The concept to be executed was 'countdown' And the brand name 3210 is also based on the concept of 'countdown for beauty', so the numbers are the last numbers in a countdown. 3-2-1-0 can be understood by everyone, and the aim was to express the brand name as a visual rather than a word. By using a visual sign for the brand name, '3210' became a strong symbol for the brand, as in the product box design, and proved to have extensive campaign ability.