Nexus Studios has signed directing duo Sojiro & Eri, consisting of Sojiro Kamatani and Eri Sawatari, for commercials, branded content and music video worldwide, except for Japan and France. In the latter market, the directorial team is repped by Paris production house Bandits. Nexus adds Sojiro & Eri to its roster as directors spanning moving image, digital, print and interactive projects, VR, 360 storytelling and installations. The duo specializes in crafting surreal and visually rich parallel universes, infusing spots for brands such as PlayStation, Honda and Facebook with bold and imaginative concepts often paired with epic visual effects. Before their names became synonymous with their commercial work, Kamatani worked in video production in Kyoto and Sawatari studied film at the University of the Arts in London. They met at Qotori Film Inc. in Tokyo, joined forces and quickly established themselves as ones to watch on an international scale. The duo is behind a beautiful film for Japanese music group Wednesday Campanella, “Yaku No Jitsugetsubushi,” and the brilliantly bizarre spot for Dentsu Tokyo and Marukome miso soup, “Marukome.” Other highlights include the multi award-winning, time warping masterpiece for Mori Building, “Designing Tokyo,” and an eccentric satirical short for Japanese cable TV program, Family Theatre….
Illustrator Ana Miminoshvili Voted Young Guns 22 Creative Choice Winner
Ana Miminoshvili, an illustrator and designer based in Tbilisi, has received special recognition from The One Club for Creativity as the Young Guns 22 Creative Choice winner.
The accolade is the result of a public vote by the global creative community who reviewed work of all Young Guns 22 winners (the full lineup was reported on last month in SHOOT) and picked the one they believe stands above all others.
Miminoshvili invests her time in pondering color palettes, lighting sources, and the interplay of free-flowing lines and structured geometric shapes. This mindful approach enables her to infuse her artwork with a sense of warmth, even when the subject matter might suggest otherwise.
Before starting her freelance career, she spent a few years at a creative agency as a multidisciplinary designer. Miminoshvili holds her country’s first-ever Eurobest Young Creative Gold medal, Webby Award, and continues this pattern in the illustration industry as Georgia’s first-ever Communication Arts Excellence Award winner and first Georgian teacher on Domestika.
Besides client work, she enjoys creating personal projects, like her quarantine game Emojinarium, and manages her small art shop. In 2021, Miminoshvili founded Illustrators Club, a nonprofit organization that hosts public events to educate and connect young Georgian artists.
Young Guns is the industry’s only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today’s vanguard of young creatives. This year’s entries were judged by a diverse jury of 101 creatives--many of whom are past YG winners--from 45 countries.
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