BIG PENCIL, BIG EASEL

TitleBIG PENCIL, BIG EASEL
BrandMUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY
Product / ServiceOPEN CAMPUS
CategoryA01. Posters
EntrantHAKUHODO Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company HAKUHODO Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency HAKUHODO Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
Tatsuki Ikezawa HAKUHODO Art Director
Tetsuro Jozaki TIDE INC. Designer
Yukiko Nishimura TIDE INC. Designer
Tomokazu Tsuji SHOEI Printing
Takahiro Nishi Musashino Art University Project Director
Hideharu Ueki HAKUHODO PRODUCT'S Director
Yosuke Shigemura HAKUHODO PRODUCT'S Producer
Takaaki Ozaki Animation
Yusuke Uchiyama Otoco Music
Yuki Shinoda HAKUHODO PRODUCT'S Production Manager

Brief Explanation

Challenges and key objectives are attracting visitors, especially high school students who aim to go to Art University and increasing the number of visitors and requests for University’s application.

The Brief

In recent years, the number of students who wish to go to Art University has been decreasing in Japan. Musashino Art University, which is one of Japan’s most renowned art schools, held special open days called “OPEN CAMPUS” for high school students to share a sense of what Art College life is like. We have created the advertisement and all that visual tools for this event. Musashino Art University is commonly known as “MUSABI.”

How the final design was conceived

We tried to express how enjoyable and productive student life at MUSABI is by the image of a city using pencils and easels as the motifs. They are essential materials for preparatory drawing that is a fundamental practice in painting, as in designing. Various neon signs are constructed by department names and some general information of the school. Print in silver and black provides a pencil-drawn texture, which also implies that creation originally begins by drawing.

Indication of how successful the outcome was in the market

Our design suited the University’s purpose of this event and visually attracted visitors, especially high school students who aim to go to Art University. As a numeral consequence, the number of visitors and requests for application increased by 30% compared to last year.