What makes an already quintessential restaurant even more quintessential? KITCHEN.

Located in the hub of Central, SEVVA (pronounced as "savour") is undoubtedly the most sought-after restaurant in Hong Kong since its opening months ago. Embraced by the surreally breath-taking views of the island, SEVVA is probably the only restaurant in town constantly reserved by the A-list celebrities and the well heeled.

As the founder of SEVVA as well as the Queen of Style, Bonnie Gokson picks only what's best according to her discerning taste. And KITCHEN is honoured to be chosen, to create the website for SEVVA.

"The whole world knows how demanding I am. And this is not the first time I work with KITCHEN.", says Bonnie, with her all-time charming smile.

World's smallest and lightest Blu-ray laptop by SONY is compatible with the speediest agency, KITCHEN.

Targeting the very sophisticated laptop users, SONY is proud to present its latest high-end model, VAIO TT, with an array of killer features. Simply put, it's the smallest and lightest computer in the world equipped with a Blu-ray disc player.

With technically the best picture and sound quality, SONY VAIO TT also comes with a sleek product design in 4 chic colours to make it a hot pick inside out. Instead of boldly displaying the product edges , KITCHEN chooses to escort the visitors to explore and experience this high-end creation by themselves, alongside with the gorgeous talent.

There are at least 2 miracles you can't miss:

1) SONY can make this incredible machine as light as 1.3 kg;

2) KITCHEN can complete this incredible website in as short as 2.5 weeks.

Thank Goodness : )

Tony keeps learning through teaching. A speech for students of Hong Kong Baptist University.

Invited by Gladys Lam, lecturer of Department of Communication Studies of Hong Kong Baptist University, Tony Wong of KITCHEN is happy to share what he has learnt in his last 18 years since entering the world of advertising.

Titled as "It takes more than good writing to be a good writer", the speech was jointly made with Mr Chong Kin, Creative Director of Leo Burnett Hong Kong.

From the versatile roles of a writer, to ways to create ads with illustrations of his previous works, Tony tries his best to replace question marks in students' heads with lots of "Oh, I see.".

Some students do raise worries regarding their future due to the current economic environment.

" I graduated in 1990, the sentiment of Hong Kong was at its worst. And my major was Business, instead of Design. And ultimately I still managed to get into advertising and I am still in it."

Tony further boosts up their confidence level, "Whatever career you choose, there'll still be ups and downs within the 40-year time span. Make sure the one you're in is the one you like most. In brief, be who you truly are."

KITCHEN is happy to win a Bronze for PCCW at Kam Fan Awards night.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

To the honourable judges from around the world and of course our beloved client, PCCW.

Being the "Oscar of Advertising", winning anything from Kam Fan Awards this year is extremely tough.

In the "Best Online Advertising" category, there were hundreds of entries from all over Hong Kong and Mainland China, yet only 2 entries were awarded.

And KITCHEN is luckily to be one of the two winners.

It's a banner ad done for PCCW, to demonstrate the omnipresence of its Everywhere wireless broadband service.

Contrary to the "typical" solution, 5 banners, instead of one, were bought. Viewers were asked to drag the user featured in the ad among the 5 places to experience the "Everywhere" coverage of the service.

For details of this ad, please refer to KITCHEN's previous post on 5 May, 2008.

Should there be anything come close to the speed of PCCW Wireless connection, it should probably be KITCHEN's efficiency.

They made it for so many times, and they've made it once again.

We're talking about KITCHEN's almost surreal efficiency.

It's a decision using "Doors at will" with local artists getting in-and-out to demonstrate PCCW Wireless connections are everywhere when KITCHEN is sought to help, the challenge is Time, an element one can't ask for more from celebrities.

Yet KITCHEN never settles for inferior work quality because of lack of time.

Instead , KITCHEN makes the best use of it shooting 2 blue screen videos for the website. With its own post-production techniques to key the images shot against various virtual reality backgrounds, the whole approach shows users that they can basically get online everywhere with PCCW Wireless service in an entertaining manner.

On top of building websites, KITCHEN develops 2 interactive game banner ads for audience to interact with their idols. Both are memory games wrapped up by a unified ad message - "You don't need to remember where you can get online now, 'coz you can simply get online everywhere with PCCW Wireless."

Just another solid proof to show that KITCHEN never cuts corners. Even facing tight deadlines.

Maybe it's what connects big clients with KITCHEN.

Another shocking success tailored for SONY. KITCHEN extends one's scary moments during Halloween.

Soft selling does shock. KITCHEN helps SONY impress audience with its new models of image and video cameras.

Riding on the craze at Ocean Park during Halloween, SONY builds 3 haunted houses there to respectively promote its all-new image capturing products from Cybershot, Handycam, and Alpha.

In one house, frightened faces of visitors are captured by Cybershot digital cameras. They can then download the photos at the Halloween mini site developed by KITCHEN.



In the second haunted house, a video clip is captured for every visitor by the latest model of Handycam. The video clips are all stored on the SONY pre-registration YouTube page where visitors can view their yell-like-hell moments as many time as they wish.



For the Alpha camera, a more engaging way is employed - A photo competition. People can upload pictures shot with SONY Alpha cam to a special site built by KITCHEN and wait for "The Judgment Day".

Once and again, one doesn't need a 3rd eye to tell this launch by KITCHEN is something more than a phantom success.

Can an agency be judged by its cover? 4 new designs of business cards just come out hot from KITCHEN.

In a planet overloaded with information, KITCHEN believes business cards are to make unforgettable first impression instead of merely giving out phone numbers and email addresses.

For a place selling ideas, we want to amplify that everything made in KITCHEN is guaranteed fresh. Hence a sets of 4 designs (for each KITCHEN employee) are created as the 2nd episode of food items, namely deep fried crab claw, century egg, egg tart and shrimp dumpling.

Hungry for one?

Ad industry respects KITCHEN. Tony is inivited to judge 2008 HK4As Kam Fan Awards.

Invited by Spencer Wong, Creative Committee Chairman of HK4As, Tony Wong of KITCHEN will be on the judging panel for 2008 KAM FAN Awards, together with other figureheads of the ad circle.

Themed as "This year, it could be anything.", entries for the very first time are judged within one category - The Integrated. Which means Above-the-line, Below-the-line, Online, offline and even Through-the-line works will not be judged separately anymore, to reflect their true essence in the real world.

"I'll look at things like a man on the street, instead of an ad man," says Tony. " And I really hope the Best of Show would go to a genuine work piece paid by real clients and seen by the public in real."

KAM FAN awards show is equivalent to the Oscar in advertising, both in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Getting close to hundreds of top clients. A mind-freshening speech by Tony for a post-Cannes 2008 event.

On 8 October, 2008 at Hong Kong Arts Centre, Tony Wong of KITCHEN was invited to make a speech for a post-Cannes event hosted by TVB.

Titled as "No Guts. No Glory.", Tony illustrated his own discerning viewpoints on advertising with his talked-about works done for SUNDAY, E*TRADE, KMB and Chase Manhattan throughout his career.

With core message being "As a client in Hong Kong, why you should strive for creative excellence in every ad you run.", Tony opened up minds of audience with topics like “Whatever too right is probably wrong.”, "Not feeling comfortable is good for you" and "Ads are never made to inform"..., 3oo senior clients in town left the theatre with mind-expanding ideas regarding advertising.

"I could never imagine Advertising could be seen this way. Never from any companies. Never from any colleges. I would really regret if I chose not to come here today.", says a satisfying attendant.

Purifying New Blood. Tony lectures on MasterClass students of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Invited by Mr C C Tang, one of the most experienced ad gurus of Greater China now turned college lecturer, Tony Wong of KITCHEN is happy to play mentor for the final year students of School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

For 8 lessons lasting as long as 3 hours each, Tony shares with the students what he has learned in his 18 years of agency experience, with a focus on copywriting.

With topics ranging from "It takes more than good writing to be a good writer", to "Birth of the 3rd breed", Tony tries to illustrate the WHAT?, WHY? and HOW? of being an excellent writer with the aid of his own previous works, world famous examples, discussions, home work, as well as a role-playing workshop.

"Today's kids are just so lucky to have prevailing CDs talking to them face-to-face,", says Tony, "I wish they could treasure."

K11. What renders shopping in Tsim Sha Tsui hip. Again.

Once a shopping hub of world's most luxury brands, the charisma of Tsim Sha Tsui has been split among the mega shopping places on Hong Kong Island, for more than a decade.

Such dominance might shift with the recent erection of K11 in Tsim Sha Tsui, an all-new flagship shopping complex co-developed by New World Development and Urban Council, adjacent to its counterparts of Hotel and serviced apartments.

Positioned as the first Shopping Art Gallery in Hong Kong, the element of art would be a long-term marketing emphasis for K11 in the years to come.

To ride on such, KITCHEN has created a website equipped with interactive functions to highlight K11's key features, which would surely facilitate client's leasing to its potential tenants.

Live Slow to Win Big. For you and our planet Earth.

KITCHEN feels high with WWF Climateers 3600 Low Carbon Challenge.


Starting 2008 September onwards, every household in Hong Kong will be a monthly electricity bill rebate by the government which adds up to HK$3600 at the end of the whole 6-month period.

In order to urge people not to consume more electricity (which in turn damages our climate with excessive emissions of CO2) purely because of the rebate, KITCHEN joins forces with WWF to launch a meaningful competition for the public to take part - 3600 Low Carbon Challenge. With winners being the ones who are the slowest to use up the entitled $3,600.

Built by KITCHEN, a 3600 Low Carbon Challenge minisite is launched to promote the competition. The site has an engine for people to enrol and participate. Once you enrol, simply input your electricity bill amount starting from September and you're in competition with the rest of Hong Kong families. Along the upcoming 5 months, you can always check who's the energy-saving leader and to share energy saving tips with the rest.

KITCHEN has also tailored a household version of Carbon Calculator purely for this meaningful competition, a lovely print ad on Ming Pao as well as an online ad on Ming Pao Online plus Yahoo!

Cuddly babies get massive attention for PCCW EasyWatch.

Formerly targeting at retail chain owners overseeing branches in various districts, PCCW is now promoting another sought-after application of its remote-controlled webcam, EasyWatch, to the busy parents.

Click to view the Online Interactive Demo

As another device that makes full use of PCCW's strength - The Quadruple Platform, EasyWatch allows its user to monitor his home from afar, through one of any 4 ways, namely PCCW mobile, now TV, internet and its special interactive fixed-line phone - EYE.

With such device installed at home, even the busiest daddy and mommy can take a look at home between meetings wherever they are. "Is my baby sleeping well?", "Has the lovely poodle learnt new tricks?", "Is the maid taking good care of the seniors?" Peace of mind is well assured even when one is far away from home.KITCHEN does the kick-off, with the help of the lovely babies. They are indeed 2 interactive banners placed on site with high traffic. One opens on a crying baby with its granny hitting hard from behind with a slipper. Just when you think it's a heart-breaking scene, a super comes up - "The truth is..." When the viewer clicks the button, the camera pans to reveal that the sweet granny is indeed hitting a cockroach behind the baby.

The next version starts with a mini baby doing chin-up. When one ponders if it's some kind of over-the-top advertising for a milk powder brand, the super fades on - "The truth is..." Once the viewer clicks the button, the camera pans down. It's indeed his mother holding him up and down for mutual fun.

The 2 interactive banners have generated massive awareness, clicks and talks, especially among moms, within days.

Make this world a better place with facebook

Want to know your "Carbon footprint"? Use WWF's Carbon Calculator developed by KITCHEN!

Comparing with the most sophisticated parts of the world, Hong Kong is still in pressing need to educate the public the concept of "Carbon Footprint".

Measured in tons per year, Carbon Footprint is the amount of Carbon Dioxide (which is believed to be the key poison to our healthy planet) emitted by each of your activity like driving, sleeping with your air-con on, or simply travelling by air planes.

With KITCHEN's eco-friendly facebook application tailored for WWF - "Let's see Less C", you can see how much Carbon Footprint you produce with your lifestyle plus how much you can reduce, with just a little shift of your habit.

Have this world-changing facebook application today!

SONY entrusted KITCHEN with an insurmountable task. KITCHEN delivered on time, with miraculous results.

A through-the-line campaign that make passers-by stop for the new Walkman.

It's not a SONY digital camera. It's a SONY Walkman digital. And what we've come up is an event of pictures.

We're not drunk.

The product we need to launch is the all new SONY Walkman
digital, with innumerable design casings for users to change, just like fashion accessories.

SONY demands no less than 1,000 photos taken, plus to drive visitors to its revamped flagship showroom.

KITCHEN says OK.

And wraps around the various items of the whole campaign with one single word that reflects the product's essence, Match.

While most photo submission websites wait passively for people to upload, we lure people to visit our site spontaneously.

By putting them centre stage.

5 gorgeous fashion models ask people to take pictures with them in the shopping hub of Causeway Bay. Once done, the models will ask them to visit the revamped showroom nearby as well as the website from time to time to see how great they look.

It is human psychology that:

1. You will always look for yourself in a group photo and;
2. When you are photographed, you always want to see if you're looking good in the picture.

Results? Extremely successful!

• We captured over 1500 photos (i.e. 1.5 times of client's benchmark) in just 6 hours;
• Huge traffic was driven to the Sony showroom, with instant purchases and innumerable subscriptions for the limited edition model;
• Before the site was lived, countless people couldn't wait to call the SONY hotline to ask when they could see their own pictures online.

And to achieve such miraculous results, it took a marketing event, promotion collaterals, a minisite, online ads...All done and delivered in less than 2 weeks.

Surreal? Yes.

Impossible? No. Well, at least not to KITCHEN.

- Click to see event day photos

KITCHEN's multiple-choice solution makes PCCW Wireless a wise choice

Engaging audience with situational riddles, in a hilarious way.

Riding on PCCW Wireless above-the-line promotion, KITCHEN comes up with an interactive banner ad campaign, to further enhance the benefit of its quadruple wireless internet connection platform - i.e. netvigator Home Wireless service, PCCW WiFi hotspots, netvigator Everywhere, and PCCW Mobile.

With the declining click-through-rate of PCCW's banners in recent years, KITCHEN suggests client not to force-feed audience with hard facts in a linear way anymore.

Instead, KTICHEN has shot a series of video banners, each with a multiple-choice question of "How to get online?" in that particular situation. All answers are deemed to be hilarious, yet the point is to tempt audience to reveal the ad messages for themselves.

The result is surprisingly remarkable, with both click-through rate and recalling rate exceeding expectation of everybody, including ourselves.

Humour does pull.

Trying is believing : )

Effectiveness for PCCW Wireless

KITCHEN innovates disturbance-free banner ad placement

On top of its above-the-line campaign, PCCW needs online strength to forge its leadership position in providing wireless broadband service through its quadruple platform, namely netvigator Home Wireless service, PCCW WiFi hotspots, netvigator Everywhere and PCCW Mobile.

Simply put, "Connecting anywhere" is the ad message.

Since such "What to say" is so familiar, we definitely need an impactful "How to say" to draw the audience.

With "Crazy Ad" being the most widely used solution to make impact, KITCHEN sees intrinsic incompetence in it.

"To most internet viewers, a typical crazy ad is so disturbing. If not executed well, it, instead of drawing viewers, will block users from reading further, or worst of all, leads to closure of the ad before having any part of it read.", says Allen Wong, Client Service Director of KITCHEN.

In view of this, KITCHEN goes for something far more effective.

The special banner placement enables viewers to drag, drop and swing the main character among 5 banner spaces to convey the seen-before "Connecting anywhere" message in an untried manner.

Play now to learn more!

A Full HD Website For a Full HD Handycam

SONY Handycam TG1. Product placement first seen in interactive suspense movies.

Being the smallest in the market which can capture both Full HD video and still shots, KITCHEN suggests SONY to sell with movies - Full HD movies.

"Handycam users are naturally movie lovers, so why don't we use movies to sell?", says Alan Kan, Creative Director for Interactive, KITCHEN.

Everything spins off from a theme line developed by KITCHEN - 「細得可移」, which means "Small enough to move" as well as "Suspiciously small" in Chinese.

Naturally, 3 suspense movies are made with the product features embedded for viewers to experience in an interactive manner.

Lights off.

Action.

Making Citi Even Greener

A Green Citi Video to Educate Staff to GO PAPERLESS!

KITCHEN has made a eco-friendly video for Citibank in which each senior management staff talks about ways to save paper in the office.



A set of Green Citi signages are also produced to place in different locations in their working place which serve as reminders as a follow-up of the video.

First LifeBillboard ever created in Hong Kong

KITCHEN celebrates BOCG's anniversary in an unprecedented way.



When Bank of China Group Life Insurance asks KITCHEN to help them promote on their 10th anniversary, KITCHEN persuades them to do it in a ground-breaking way, together with 5,000 people.

"While most gigantic corporations inform public of their anniversaries with boring ads, why can't we make it a big celebration that even a non-customer can take part?" , questions Tony Wong, Creative Director, KITCHEN.

This LifeBillboard is definitely the 1st on Hong Kong, highly-likely the 1st in Asia, and not impossibly the 1st in the whole wide world.

Official website: www.lifebillboard.com

A revamp of website to recruit more Climateers

KITCHEN x WWF call for less Carbon Footprint

Climateers, as coined by WWF, are the group of people volunteer to rectify the climate change through cutting their "Carbon Footprints" considerably with a change of their lifestyle.

"Anyone can pledge to be a Climateer. But to achieve this, we must have a very user-friendly website in the first place.", says Allen Wong, Director of Client Service, KITCHEN.

On top of making WWF's site a more friendly one, KITCHEN's revamp leaves room for the site's future expansion.














And make sure you try out the Carbon Calculator and see how big your Carbon Footprint is!