Job: [IMMEDIATE] Japanese-speaking Web Designer at APCO Worldwide (DC)
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Thanks to JETAA DC President Leigh Ann Mastrini for sharing this opening at the company where she works. Posted by blogger and podcaster Jon Dao (Toyama-ken, 2009-12). Click here to join the JETwit Jobs Google Group and receive job listings even sooner by email.
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Overview:
Below is the strategic brief for a one-off project to design a website for one of APCO’s clients based in Japan. If you are interested, please contact Leigh Ann Mastrini (Hyogo-ken, 2006 – 2008/JETAADC President) with your name and existing portfolio if you have one. Previous experience in designing for Japanese companies and Japanese websites is preferred.
Client: APCO Worldwide
Project Name: Tsunami Video Stories site
Contact: lmastrini @ apcoworldwide.com
Primary Audience(s): Japanese citizens
Secondary Audience(s): Policy Makers
Goal/Call-to-Action: Provide a platform for citizens to memorialize in film what happened to them in the tsunami and how it affected their lives.
Key Message: The stories of the tsunami deserve to be remembered, including the tremendous efforts an heroic acts that followed the disaster.
Supporting Messages:
Tone: Catharsis, commemoration, recognition, respect, interactive (Maybe Ted.com meets hollowdocumentary.com)
Scope of Work
1 comps of a homepage with video playing and one without.
Review: 1 rd of edits to 1 of the selected comps
Key Assumptions:
Video will be FPO
UX will be provided
Content will be provided in Japanese
Schedule:
Comp v1 to APCO: 2/7/14
Feedback to designer: 2/8
Final comps to APCO: 2/10
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