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Eleven projects across healthcare, consumer, CSR and personal practice — the curated portfolio, in order. Scroll through, or open any case study for the thinking behind it.

11 PROJECTS2011 — 2025TAKEDA · HOYA · GSK · NESTLÉ · INVISALIGN · SINGAPORE RED CROSS · HSA

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01 / SINGAPORE RED CROSS · 2014–2019

MULTI-YEAR HUMANITARIAN PLATFORM

Won back from bigger agencies after the client asked for a repitch. A five-year run built on donor turnout, not donor guilt.

4M+IMPRESSIONS, YOUTH CAMPAIGN YEAR
BIG IDEA

Blood donation depends on turnout that's hard to predict and hard to spike on demand, especially among 16+ youth donors traditional drives weren't built to speak to.

STRATEGY & THINKING

The relationship was personal, from the original pitch. After leaving McCann, the client came back and asked for a repitch, won back against larger agencies with a fraction of their team.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

A full OOH and digital system across five years, bus wraps, MRT pillar wraps, mall takeovers, paired with real-donor photography for a human, not just illustrated, face.

OUTCOME

Over 4 million impressions and 1 million+ reached in a single campaign year, 2x industry CTR benchmarks, outperformed a Ronaldo brand-ambassador campaign by 10%+, retained a third year without a repitch.

02 / GSK · 2013–2015

SCOTT'S EMULSION

Everyday smart, everyday strong. Turning dosing into a proud daily habit.

BIG IDEA

Children's supplements were treated as occasional purchases, not daily habits. Parents wanted smarter, stronger kids but distrusted overclaimy advertising.

STRATEGY & THINKING

Normalized Scott's as a simple, repeatable routine linked to school readiness and play, not medicalized fear — anchored in everyday parenting rituals.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Integrated campaign across TVC, digital video, OOH near schools, in-store POS and parent-community content, localized across ASEAN with school-year cadences.

OUTCOME

Distribution growth and improved off-take in key channels, strong brand recall in parent testing, platform reused across seasonal flights.

03 / TAKEDA · 2011

ENANTONE

Taking endometriosis out of the story.

BIG IDEA

Endometriosis was underdiagnosed and culturally stigmatized in Asia, often leading to infertility. Women described their lives as if "written by pain."

STRATEGY & THINKING

Reframed treatment as reclaiming a story rather than managing a disease, giving women language for something they'd been taught to stay silent about.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Visuals built around torn book pages, rolled out across print, congress and digital.

OUTCOME

Increased diagnosis and improved treatment uptake, reused across affiliates. Winner, Global Awards 2011 (Film); Silver and Bronze, IPA Best of Health 2012.

RarityTales campaign visual
04 / TAKEDA · 2021

#RARITYTALES

Rare disease, told as a fairy tale, for 300 million people who deserve better than clinical severity.

BIG IDEA

Awareness campaigns for conditions like Hereditary Angioedema, Fabry Disease and Gaucher Disease usually default to imagery audiences have learned to look away from.

STRATEGY & THINKING

Fairy tales carry built-in trust. "Once upon a time" lowers your guard before the harder truth arrives.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Opened up rather than kept agency-controlled: Takeda employees invited to write their own #RarityTales around conditions they felt strongly about.

OUTCOME

Outgrew its brief entirely. Adopted as a yearly initiative, now a recurring platform for education across the business.

05 / NESTLÉ · 2013

NAN OPTIPRO H.A.

Give him a great start in life.

BIG IDEA

Infant formula is a regulated, crowded category. NAN needed an emotional angle for mothers and HCPs while staying fully compliant.

STRATEGY & THINKING

Parents want confidence their child's nutrition is the best possible start. Dramatized NAN's "Best Protein" as the foundation of growth.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Hero TVC for global rollout, integrated consumer campaign across TV, print and in-store, HCP materials and education, regional adaptations for APAC.

OUTCOME

Rolled out across multiple countries, boosted NAN's share in the premium category, praised internally as a best-practice campaign.

06 / INVISALIGN · 2012–2014

LIFE STAGE PLATFORM

Is your smile holding you back? The clear alternative to braces, mapped to life stages.

BIG IDEA

Invisalign was perceived as niche and expensive, lacking mainstream traction in Asia.

STRATEGY & THINKING

Smiles are more than cosmetic, they reflect confidence and self-expression. Positioned Invisalign as the clear alternative to braces, mapped to consumer life stages.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Full brand platform: website, app, consumer tools, campaign visuals across Asia, integration of HCP toolkits and digital media.

OUTCOME

Significant ROI delivering premium-care patients, strengthened premium positioning in APAC, reused globally.

07 / HEALTH SCIENCES AUTHORITY, SINGAPORE · 2019–2021

SPOT STROKE FAST / BE STROKE SMART / EVERY SECOND COUNTS

A single-year brief that became a three-year platform, renewed off the strength of results.

7XIMPRESSIONS VS. TARGET, YEAR TWO
BIG IDEA

One in four people will experience a stroke. Year one had to get a wide public to see themselves in a future they'd rather not think about.

STRATEGY & THINKING

Year two moved from general awareness to specific, actionable knowledge. Year three had to keep the message alive inside a pandemic consuming all public attention.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Built on its own visual language year over year, radio, train, bus shelters, PR and social running in concert, shifting weight toward digital as the media environment changed.

OUTCOME

Year two beat every target: radio 35.2% vs. 26%, social 1.2M impressions vs. 500K, PR value up to $885,347. Year three reach passed 2 million against a 600,000 target.

08 / 7ARTISANS · 2022–ONGOING

LENS STORIES

Editorial, social and product storytelling with a lens manufacturer built for people who care about glass, not specs.

BIG IDEA

Lens reviews are usually spec-sheet content. There was room for something that treated glass as craft, not just numbers.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Hands-on unboxing and real-world shooting content, shot and edited personally, built around what a lens actually feels like to use rather than what it measures.

OUTCOME

Ongoing collaborator relationship built on editorial trust rather than a single sponsored post.

JapanCameraHunter In Your Bag feature
09 / JAPANCAMERAHUNTER · 2022–ONGOING

IN YOUR BAG

What you carry is a biography. Three times, a global photography audience got to look inside mine, no client, no brief.

BIG IDEA

Gear choices aren't really about gear, they're about what you value: speed, discretion, weight, ritual.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Self-photographed, self-written bag breakdowns, three times across the run, each one a snapshot of where the practice was at that moment.

OUTCOME

Shared widely within the photography community, reinforcing the "different cameras, same instinct" idea that runs through Hotshot Studio.

HOYA The Source digital hub interface
VISUAL PENDING — SEND SOURCE
10 / HOYA SURGICAL OPTICS · 2025

THE SOURCE

A digital enablement hub without the overhead of a full website.

BIG IDEA

HOYA needed a digital enablement hub without the cost and timeline of a full site build.

STRATEGY & THINKING

Built a lightweight but powerful content portal instead, prioritizing field usability over feature completeness.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Microsite UX with CRM integration and built-in field training.

OUTCOME

In active use across multiple new market entries.

11 / HOYA SURGICAL OPTICS · 2024

EYEFLEXA

Advance on demand. A modular surgical platform positioned against overpriced, feature-loaded rivals.

BIG IDEA

HOYA had spent decades known for lenses. Eyeflexa asked the market to see them as an equipment company too, off the back of an acquisition.

STRATEGY & THINKING

Rather than compete on spec-sheet completeness, positioned around what actually mattered: not a fully-loaded system, but one that grows with the surgeon.

CRAFT & DIRECTION

Made modularity itself the hero image, equipment shown mid-upgrade, paired with clean technical collateral.

OUTCOME

Modularity communicated clearly, well received by HCPs across experience levels.