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Lacoste Japan re-launch

On March 3, 2015, the Lacoste Japan web shop re-launched, based on a shop-plus-brand design supplied by the French headquarters and adapted to the local market, with a dedicated smartphone experience, the local loyalty program, and various online-to-offline shipping options. The original design was … Continue reading

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Pitching Qortex at Slush

Last week, I pitched our service Qortex at the Slush Asia event. Here’s the video. As always, it’s pretty embarrassing to listen to yourself speak in public (do I really sound like this?!), but this was actually fun to do, and I … Continue reading

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“Many Steps” by Takayuki Akachi for Onitsuka Tiger

MANY STEPS from Takayuki Akachi for Onitsuka Tiger. Possibly our most successful piece of digital marketing ever, if you want to call it that. Relevance in a specific cultural context is a given for our products, and we‘ve now brought … Continue reading

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Not talking about My ASICS

I posted about the new Onitsuka Tiger web site, but not about the new My ASICS service I’ve been working on, with Mairéad, Loucas, our colleagues at the Institute of Sport Science and particularly Tagawa-san, Tokyo-based web design studio AQ, … Continue reading

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Onitsuka Tiger: now in HTML5!

A couple of weeks ago, we launched a revamp of the Onitsuka Tiger web site: Built for us by CloudRaker (of Montreal) in HTML5 and powered by The Plant (of Tokyo and Hangzhou) using their new Qor content management system, … Continue reading

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Setouchi Festival web site: interviewing Chris for SNOW magazine

This summer, I visited the Setouchi International Art Festival 2010, an incredible set of art installations on the islands of the Seto sea, between the main Honshu and Shikoku islands of Japan. The festival grew out of the Benesse House … Continue reading

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Onitsuka Tiger (bus stop)

Cute ad from our Italian colleagues:

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Scandinavia up!

Oh yeah and thanks @holbuc and Per-Einar for launching Denmark, Norway, Sweden today (you might still see the old sites for a few hours if the DNS hasn’t yet updated). Still a bit of QA to do, but I’m relieved … Continue reading

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Onitsuka Tiger traffic up

The Onitsuka Tiger web site has been refreshed a couple of weeks ago. Our web agency CloudRaker and our technology partner The Plant implemented a raft of relatively small changes that had sharp impact on the site’s usage patterns: page … Continue reading

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ASICS first brand for “running shoes” query in the UK

“Doing things right” is paying off. Just by having common-sense page titles and descriptions, and by having a clear URL scheme, the ASICS UK site is properly indexed by Google. A Google UK search for our brand name shows the … Continue reading

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