OREANDA-NEWS. Dentsu Inc. announced today that Koichi Ito, one of Dentsu’s executive creative directors, has been named the 2012 Creator of the Year by the Japan Advertising Agencies Association.

The purpose of this annual award, which was established in 1989, is to publicly recognize the most outstanding work produced by a creative professional from any of the Association’s member companies. This was the 24th time that the Creator of the Year award has been presented, and the 22nd time that a Dentsu creative has won this award.

Ito garnered the award for his extensive and diverse creative efforts for Honda Motor Co. Ltd.’s comprehensive corporate communications activities.

In addition to the Creator of the Year Award, for the first time in five years the JAAA announced two Special Jury Awards, one of which was presented to Kaoru Sugano of Dentsu Inc. (Creative Technologist, Global Business Division).