having worked as a creative director on various accounts, it was quite refreshing to head off and start our own small creative office and work on our first tv shoot the way we always wanted it to be done, but never believed possible. in our first year, we landed our first tv campaign. the project came to us directly from japan, of all places, but it was a welcome adventure. our first meeting seemed like lost in translation, when we found our group smaller than we imagined, in a large conference room at the drake hotel surrounded by japanese executives and their many translators. after our presentation and a few weeks of waiting, the work began…