Masaki Hanahara
- Creative Director
- United States
SOAR NY is a New York-based design studio specializing in total branding from naming to visual identity,
package design, digital design, and creative direction. He joined Shiseido Creative Division in 2005 and took charge of art direction for Maquillage and Shiseido's corporate advertising. He moved to the U.S. in 2019 to work as Creative Director for global brand SHISEIDO before founding SOAR NY in January 2022.
In 2018, he was selected as the 4th best creative director in the world in the design category of ONESHOW, the world's three major advertising awards. In recent years, 10 of his poster series have been housed in the official collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts in Poland. He has also won the ONESHOW Gold Award three times, the NY Art Directors Club Gold Award, D&AD (UK), Clio, NY Festival, JAGDA New Designer Award, and other awards, and is highly acclaimed not only in Japan but also overseas.
He is joining the ADC 102nd Annual Award as a Brand/Communication design jury.
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