Advertising Agency: Happy, Bangalore, India
Chief Executive Officer: Kartik Iyer
Chief Creative Officer: Praveen Das
COO: Siddartha Roy
Creative Director: Naren Kaushik
Art Director / Illustrator: Aswin Sridhar
Copywriter: Megha Ramesh
Account Management: Ajay Kumar, Pallavi Nayak
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Basics India : The Men Commandments by Happy Bangalore
Brief: Basics Life is India’s largest menswear chain, with retail presence in over 100 exclusive stores and 600 multi-brand outlets, while also being available on their own online store basicslife.com. The store caters to all of men’s fashion needs including accessories and footwear.
The objective was to carry forward the success of their 2012 campaign – “shop like a man”.
Creative Solution: In order to take the same attitude and philosophy of last year’s ‘MAN’TRA’ (an anthem for men) to the next level, we created ‘The Men Commandments’.
With light-hearted digs at the notorious shopping practices of the opposite sex, each commandment illustrates how manly men should be shopping.
Credits
Brand: Basics Life
Client: Hanif Sattar & Suhail Sattar
Agency: Happy, Bangalore
Chief Executive Officer/Executive Creative Director: Kartik Iyer
Chief Creative Officer: Praveen Das
Copywriter: Megha Ramesh
Art Directors: Sukumar N, Sevugan S
Account Planning: Ravi Bhat
Account Management: Ajay A Kumar
Production House: Pavleye Production & Artist Management
Executive Producer: Josef Pavleye
Directors: Marika Majorova, Jonas Karasek (Gunpowder)
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Bluestone.com by Happy, Bangalore
BRIEF
Bluestone.com is a premium online jewellery store offering a variety of jewellery and accessories, with a special focus on fine personal jewellery.
They were looking to launch the brand and create awareness about their services. Added to this was the need to not only encourage women to buy jewellery online but to also stop depending on their husbands or family to make these purchases.
Moreover, in India, jewellery is traditionally bought only for occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, festivals and weddings; so the campaign had to challenge this insight as well.
CREATIVE SOLUTION
To tackle the requirements of this brief we took the campaign to an intimate and charming space. Through the interaction of a young couple, the TVC informs women that with Bluestone.com they are empowered to make jewellery purchases all by themselves, without depending on others or waiting for that “special” event to come around.
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CREDITS
Brand: Bluestone.com
Client – Gaurav Singh Kushwaha
Agency: Happy, Bangalore
Creative Directors – Kartik Iyer / Praveen Das
Writer – Kartik Iyer
COO – Siddartha Roy
Account Planning – Ravi Bhat
Account Management – Ameya Lokhande / Ajay Kumar
Production House – Nirvana Films
Director – Prakash Varma
Producer – Sneha Iype
Planet Kids : THE TALKING INVITE
Brief:
Planet Kids, Bangalore’s leading playschool chain wanted an invite to announce their Annual Day celebrations. This invite would be given to students and their parents. The objective was to create excitement around the event and get their kids buzzing.
Solution:
So we decided to create something out-of-the-ordinary, something that would engage their students and get them to transfer the buzz onto their parents. And voila, the ‘hand puppet’ invite was born!
World’s Cheapest Annual Report : by Happy Creative
BRIEF
Maraa is an NGO that employs media and art to influence the society’s quality of life, health and livelihood. They wanted an annual report that would not only sum up their year but also express everything they stand for.
SOLUTION
We took inspiration from the word ‘maraa’, meaning ‘tree’ in Kannada, and the fact that they are an NGO that works towards bettering society. Keeping this in mind we came up with a solution that was cost-effective and eco-friendly.
A single color design was created that could be reproduced using a simple photocopier or even by the most basic printer. All their information was made to fit on a single sheet to reduce wastage of both paper and ink. Folded many times over, it became a small portable booklet – that makes this the world’s cheapest annual report.
Kartik Iyer: Interview
Born in 1975 Chennai. Spent 8 years growing up in Africa. Returned to Chennai in 1985. Learnt to play the mridangam for 3 years. Acted in 27 full fledged theatre productions. Joined advertising in Dec 1995 as an intern. Did six years between Chennai Bangalore learning to be a copywriter. Worked in Y&R Dubai for 3 years from 2001-2004. Worked in Ogilvy Bangalore for 3 years. Started Happy in 2007 with Praveen Das. Love movies, music, design and pop art. Moonlight as a stand up comedian as The HigherIyer Show.
Why are you into Advertising?
Cos it’s the only place you get to use your creative muscles with every medium that’s exists. I also get bored easily, so it helps to keep focusing on different brands with different needs. But I didn’t know any of this when I started my career. Actually I loved commercials and asked someone who ‘thought’ of them. Someone said the agency and I decided I would learn to be a copywriter. It took me 5 years to realize what I actually wanted to do was direct ad films. Hopefully I’ll get there some day.
Planet K by Happy Bangalore
Brief: Planet Kids, Bangalore’s leading playschool chain wanted an invite to announce their Annual Day celebrations. This invite would be given to students and their parents. The objective was to create excitement around the event and get their kids buzzing. Oh, and of course the invite had to be cost-effective.
Solution: So we decided to create something out-of-the-ordinary, something that would engage their students and get them to transfer the buzz onto their parents. And voila, the ‘hand puppet’ invite was born out of a mere sheet of A4 sized paper. We then went on to create five unique characters so as to encourage greater curiosity, creativity and playfulness among our tiny TG.
Advertising Agency: Happy, Bangalore, India
Executive Creative Director: Kartik Iyer
Chief Creative Officer: Praveen Das
Creative Director: Carl Savio
Illustrator: Nalisha Chouraria
Art Director: Shatrughan R
Copywriter: Megha Ramesh
Basics by Happy, Bangalore
Advertising Agency: Happy, Bangalore, India
Chief Creative Officer: Praveen Das
Executive Creative Director: Kartik Iyer
Art Director: Viduthalai Raj
Copywriter: Athul Chathukutty
Photographer: Miro
Studio Head: Ramakrishna R
Account Supervisor: Neelima Kariappa
Account Executive: Vigya Atri