THE BEER CIVILIZATION

TitleTHE BEER CIVILIZATION
BrandSUNTORY HOLDINGS
Product / ServiceBEER
CategoryC03. Illustration
EntrantTOKYU AGENCY Tokyo, JAPAN
Entrant Company TOKYU AGENCY Tokyo, JAPAN
Advertising Agency TOKYU AGENCY Tokyo, JAPAN
Production Company BIRDLAND Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name Company Position
HIDEO KATO Suntory Business Expert Limited Creative Director
KIYOSHI OOMORI SUN-AD Company Limited Creative Director
NOBUTOSHI YAKADA Tokyu Agency Inc. Creative Director
TETSUSHI KAWACHI Tokyu Agency Inc. Creative Director
TOSHIMI HAYASHI Tokyu Agency Inc. Art Director
HIDEAKI MOROHASHI Tokyu Agency Inc. Copywriter
TAKEMICHI CHIBA Birdland inc. Designer
RIYAKO HARADA Birdland inc. Designer
MACHI KAGAWA Birdland inc. Designer
YURIKA SUZUKI Tokyu Agency Inc. Designer
KIYOSHI OZONE Kanai Oodogu inc. Craftsman
KIYONO TAMORI Kanai Oodogu inc. Craftsman
YUKI KAWAKAMI acube inc. Photographer
TAKUYA TSUGANE RIZING inc. Special Effects Computer Graphics
SHIZUKA MASUNO Suntory Business Expert Limited Creative Producer
AYAKA TANIGUCHI Suntory Business Expert Limited Creative Producer
KENJI HASHIMOTO amana inc. Producer
HISAO SAGARA Kanai Oodogu inc. Producer
MIRAI NAKAMURA Tokyu Agency Inc. Account Executive

Brief Explanation

While celebrating the first anniversary of the company, we aimed to deliver our wish to expand the beer business.

The Brief

Suntory Beer Limited, a company established in 2014 for focusing on beer-oriented business line which used to be a division under Suntory Holdings, celebrated its first anniversary.

Results

Overtaking the previous record kept by a competitor, our parent company, Suntory Holdings, made the record high volume in the sales of beer products; thus it become the top manufacturer in the Japanese beer industry.

How the final design was conceived

We created a visual representing a typical beer drinking scene in Japan, by adopting a drawing technique used for mural paintings in the ancient Egypt, the place where beer was developed. To explain the drinking scene, we also adopted the hieroglyph letters which were used in the same period as the wall paintings.

Indication of how successful the outcome was in the market

Overtaking the previous record kept by a competitor, our parent company, Suntory Holdings, made the record high volume in the sales of beer products; thus it become the top manufacturer in the Japanese beer industry.