Creative

Posters to Billboards, Web to Email, CI to UI, Toothpick wrappers to Jumbo Jet

Graphic Design and Art Direction

Portfolio upon request

 

Junji Hase / Creative Director

Freelance Creative Director
March 2025 - Present

Amazon Japan, Brand Innovation Lab
APAC Principal Creative Director, February 2024 - February 2025
Oversees creative projects in the APAC region, utilizing Amazon's resources to solve advertiser issues
creatively, while also fostering innovation and mentorship

Head of Japan, October 2021 - Present
The Brand Innovation Labs team is a global organization focused on innovative advertising experiences
for Amazon customers and advertisers.

Amazon Japan, XCM/D1
Creative Director, October 2018 - October 2021
Work with the brand team to produce new ideas for company branding, promotional campaigns,
and marketing communications.

Apple 
Art Director, July 2005 - 2016
Developing new product launch materials for global campaigns.
Visualization of sustained brands and product display through channel, retail environments.  

Apple Japan 
Creative Director, June 2009 - November 2010 
Localizing global marketing campaigns, and developing Japan unique marketing materials. 

Imagination (USA)  
Senior Designer, April 2003 - January 2005
Brand identities and environmental design for: Ford, BCE, Samsung, JetBlue,Sprint, Tribeca NYC

Landor Associates, New York
Senior Designer, July 2000 - April 2003  
Designer, June 1999 - 2000
Corporate identities and global branding for: NYSE, Corning, Cincinnati Bell, Delta, Microsoft, 
Procter & Gamble,  Morgan Stanley, AOL Time-Warner, Tenaris. 
Package design for: Philip Morris, Microsoft, Bath & Body Works, The Smirnoff Company, Pepsi Co.
Environmental design for: Delta Express, Corning, Morgan Stanley

Landor Associates, Tokyo
Senior Designer, June 2002 - January 2003
Corporate identities and global branding for: Japan Airlines, Konami

Matsumoto Incorporated
Design Assistant, February - May 1999
Print design for: Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum, Museum of Modern Art: MoMA, 
Whitney Museum, Tiffany & Co, Steuben

Pentagram Design
Full-Time Freelance, December 1998 - February 1999
Design Assistant,  July - November 1998
Corporate identity and print design for: UPS, Echo, Port Authority, TIFF-CREF, AIA
Environmental design for: Port Authority, UPS, Nationwide Arena, World Financial Center

Barbour Design
Design Assistant, December 1997 - February 1998
Print design for: ESPN Magazine

Full Time Freelance
Ad campaigns and package design for:  Coca-Cola, Momentum, ESPN, New York Times
Corporate identity and package design for: MasterCard, Microsoft Anomaly, Future Brand, 
Invesco, HBO, MTV, Genworth, Tipping and Sprung, Glover Group,
Publishing design: Mid-Atlantic Venture Association, Dew Publishing Tokyo

 

Education
Pratt Institute
BFA, Communications Design 

State University of New York at Oneonta
Studies in International Business and Studio Art,  Minor in Marketing and Art History

 

Skills
Fluent in Japanese and Englis