• about Me

+ PROFILE

Yugo Nakamura is a creative director, designer and engineer exploring various forms of interactive system in digital and networked environment.

Yugo has exhibited and lectured in Asia, U.S.A and Europe. Some artworks from his personal website: yugop.com (http://yugop.com/) have recenly been shown at Center Pompidou (Paris), Kunstlerhaus (Vienna), Design Museum (London). His commercial works have received many international awards including Cannes Lions, OneShow, Clio Award, and NY ADC.

+ CONTACT

email : yugo@yugop.com
address : marunagasouko B, 1-5-10 higashi-shinagawa, shinagawa, tokyo 140-0002 japan
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+ BIOGRAPHY

1970 Born in Nara, Japan.
1996 Graduated from master's course of School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.
1996 - Worked as engineer / architect of large scale structures.
2000 - Art director at Japanese web development firm: Business Architects inc.
2003 - Worked as freelance director / designer.
2004 - Started interactive design studio: tha ltd.

+ AWARDS

year title prize Project
2007 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards Gold UNIQLO USA
2007 Cannes Cyber Lion Silver UNIQLO USA
2007 OneShow Silver UNIQLO USA
2006 Cannes Cyber Lion Gold Communication Evolved
2006 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards Gold Communication Evolved
2006 OneShow Silver Communication Evolved
2006 Clio Awards Bronze Communication Evolved
2006 Cannes Cyber Lion Silver Honda Sweet Mission
2006 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards Silver Honda Sweet Mission
2005 Prix Ars Electronica Distinctive Merit yugop.com
2005 Cannes Cyber Lion Gold FM Festival 2004
2005 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards Gold FM Festival 2004
2005 NY ADC Distinctive Merit FM Festival 2004
2005 Clio Awards Silver FM Festival 2004
2005 One Show Interactive Silver FM Festival 2004
2004 Cannes Cyber Lion Grand Prix ecotonoha
2004 One Show Interactive Best of Show ecotonoha
2004 One Show Interactive Grand Clio ecotonoha
2004 LIAA Grand Prix ecotonoha
2004 Clio Awards Gold ecotonoha
2004 Clio Awards Gold ecotonoha
2004 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards Silver ecotonoha
2004 ACA Media Arts Festival Short List ecotonoha
2004 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards Grand Prix TRUNK
2003 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards Grand Prix CAMCAMTIME
2003 One Show Interactive Gold CAMCAMTIME
2003 NY ADC Distinctive Merit CAMCAMTIME
2003 ACA Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize CAMCAMTIME
2002 LIAA Short List Connected_Identity
2002 ACA Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize Sky Pavillion
2001 Cannes Lions Short List Sky Pavillion
2001 WDA 2001 Special Prize Connected_Identity

+ EXHIBITIONS

year title place link
2004 Design Interactif Center Pompidou (Paris) +
2003 History of Modern Design DesignMuseum (London) +
2003 Abstraction Now kunstlerhaus (Vienna) +
2001 Movement Sendai Mediateque (Sendai) +
2001 Web Wizards DesignMuseum (London) +

+ LECTURES / WORKSHOPS

year title city
2006 Lecture at Tama-bi. Tokyo
2005 Tokyo TDC "Kibou-Juku" Tokyo
2005 Macromedia Seminar 2005 Tokyo
2005 SFC "Design Language" Kanagawa
2005 OFFF 2005 Barcelona
2005 NID Niigata
2005 FITC 2005 Toronto
2005 "What's Good?" Conference HongKong
2004 TDC DAY 2004 Tokyo
2004 SFC "Design Language" Kanagawa
2004 NID Niigata
2004 Macromedia MAX 2004 Tokyo
2003 Tokyo TDC "Kibou-Juku" Tokyo
2003 Fabrica Workshop Venetia
2003 NID Niigata
2002 IdN Conference Singapore
2002 Macromedia DevCon 2002 Tokyo
2001 IdN Conference Sydney
2001 Flash Conference Seoul
2001 Flashforward 2001 NewYork
2001 5th Design INDABA CapeTown
2001 IdN Conference HongKong
2000 Macromedia UCON 2000 Tokyo
2000 Flashforward 2000 NewYork

+ RELATED BOOKS / MAGAZINES

year title publisher link
2004 Creative Code / John Maeda Thames & Hudson + +
2003 +81(Vol.24) +81 +
2003 Sugo Sugo +
2003 JPG Actar Editorial +
2003 TIME Magazine TIME +
2002 SPOON Phaidon +
2001 72 DPI Die Gestalten Verlag +
2001 New Master of Flash 2 friends of ED +
2001 Gasbook 10 DesignExchange +
2001 WDA 2001 GRAPHIC +
2000 Moving Type Digital Media Design +
2000 New Master of Flash friends of ED +
2000 Gasbook 8 DesignExchange +
2000 Big 26 : Tradition Big Magazine +

+ JURIES

year title organization
2007 Cannes Cyber Lion Cannes Lions
2004 Clio Awards Clio Awards
2004 Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards JIAA
2003 OneShow Interactive OneClub
2003 - Tokyo Interactive Ad Awards JIAA
2002 TDC Awards Tokyo Typo Directors Club
2002 Mobilemovie Creatives' Festival NTT DoCoMo
2001 Digital Arts Awards SFC - Keio University