Dentsu’s Koichi Ito named Creator of the Year

Koichi Ito, Executive Creative Director, Dentsu has been named the 2012 Creator of the Year by the Japan Advertising Agencies Association.

This annual award, which was established in 1989, is to publicly recognize the most outstanding work produced by a creative professional from any of the Association’s member companies. This was the 24th time that the Creator of the Year award has been presented, and the 22nd time that a Dentsu creative has won this award.

Ito garnered the award for his extensive and diverse creative efforts for Honda Motor Co. Ltd.’s comprehensive corporate communications activities. Commenting on his award Ito said, “I feel very grateful to my colleagues who worked with me together as a team, and most of all to our client who has always placed trust in our creativity. Thank you very much.”

In addition to the Creator of the Year Award, for the first time in five years the JAAA announced two Special Jury Awards, one of which was presented to Kaoru Sugano of Dentsu (Creative Technologist, Global Business Division).