Yamaha Corporation

Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社, Yamaha Kabushiki Gaisha) (/jəˈmɑːhə/ or /ˈjɑːməhə/; Japanese pronunciation: [yamaha]) is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate based in Japan with a very wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, electronics, motorcycles and power sports equipment.

History

Yamaha was established in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited (日本楽器製造株式会社, Nippon Gakki Seizō Kabushiki Kaisha) (literally Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Corporation) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture and was incorporated on October 12, 1897. The company's origins as a musical instrument manufacturer is still reflected today in the group's logo—a trio of interlocking tuning forks.

After World War II, company president Genichi Kawakami repurposed the remains of the company's war-time production machinery and the company's expertise in metallurgical technologies to the manufacture of motorcycles. The YA-1 (AKA Akatombo, the "Red Dragonfly"), of which 125 were built in the first year of production (1954), was named in honour of the founder. It was a 125cc, single cylinder, two-stroke, street bike patterned after the German DKW RT125 (which the British munitions firm, BSA, had also copied in the post-war era and manufactured as the Bantam and Harley-Davidson as the Hummer. In 1955, the success of the YA-1 resulted in the founding of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

Creative director

A creative director is a position often found within the graphic design, film, music, fashion, advertising, media or entertainment industries, but may be useful in other creative organizations such as web development and software development firms as well.

A creative director is a vital role in all of the arts and entertainment industries. In another sense, they can be seen as another element in any product development process. The creative director may also assume the roles of an art director, copywriter, or lead designer. The responsibilities of a creative director include leading the communication design, interactive design, and concept forward in any work assigned. For example, this responsibility is often seen in industries related to advertisement. The creative director is known to guide a team of employees with skills and experience related to graphic design, fine arts, motion graphics, and other creative industry fields. Some example works can include visual layout, brainstorming, and copy writing. Before one assumes the role of a creative director, one must have a preset of experience beforehand. Like anyone else, these types of artists start up from the very beginning in fields that can relate to motion graphics, advertisement in television, and/or book (or magazine) publishing.

Lossa Engineering

Lossa Engineering is a Custom motorcycle manufacturer based in Long Beach, California. Founded in 2007, by Jay LaRossa, it specializes in café racers based on Japanese, Italian and British bikes from the 1960s and 1970s.

Lossa Engineering

Lossa Engineering handles from start to finish, the complete build up and restoration/ customizing of vintage motorcycles. Everything from custom fabrication and motor work to paint and upholstery are all done in house. The shop houses new and vintage machines that help them create their made to order motorcycles. Their use of bold colors, custom modifications and their unique twist and style has had such people as the skateboarder and actor Jason Lee buying a few. Currently they are building bikes for people worldwide, shipping them as far away as Norway.

Jay LaRossa

The owner of Lossa Engineering, Jay LaRossa was born in the San Fernando Valley, California, on September 9, 1970. Both sides of his family owned motorcycle dealerships in Southern California. LaRossa grew up customizing cars and anything with wheels, two wheels or four. He opened his first business customizing cars and trucks in 1998 and quickly gained world wide recognition with vehicles appearing in magazines from US to Japan. Jay's shop built several high end vehicles for large aftermarket companies to be displayed at the yearly SEMA Show. Around 2007 Jay started to focus on motorcycles, because of the love of Café Racers, he decided to build his first one from scratch and never looked back. Along the way he has taught himself how to do everything including paint and bodywork, custom fabrication, engineering components from scratch, motor work and upholstery.

Dark side

Dark side is the portion of the Earth or other planetary body, characterized by darkness that faces away and opposite to the direction of sunlight/starlight defined by the terminator line.

Dark side or Darkside may also refer to:

Luigi Pane

Luigi Pane is an Italian director and video artist. He is the founder and creative director of abstract groove (also known as abstr^ct:groove), an independent creative production and motion design studio based in Milan.

Biography

Luigi Pane was born in 1977 in Naples, Italy. After attending art school in Naples he moved to Milan for studying Design at Politecnico. During the university years he started his career as creative and video maker. As a young director he produced projects for international brands like Diesel, Dolce&Gabbana, Pirelli, Ray-Ban and Persol.

In 2004, together with executive producer Giada Risso, Luigi founded abstr^ct:groove and started to get noticed year after year by creative and advertising international community. In 2008 he won the Epica d'Or at Epica Awards with the short film for Diesel "Explorers of the Past and Future".

Other productions include Yamaha, "The Dark Side of Japan", Freddy "Kaleidoscope", Honda "This Must be the World", W Eyewear "Life is a Parade”, Carrera "No Regrets”, Chrysler “The Performer” and Lamborghini “Aventador SV”.