Communication is a virus, creating Oliver Histon.

Character profile of Oliver Histon:
Aspects to remember when attempting to create a fictitious person.  Things that we can alter and manipulate on Nial.

Physical: - 

- Hair colour.

- Eye colour.

- Facial features? Beard// eyebrows.

- Clothes.

- Glasses.

- Skin tone.  Fake tan// pale skin.

- Massive mole/ birthmark.

 

All of these things serve as distractions.  For example, if we gave Oliver Histon a strangely large mole on his cheek people would be staring at that rather than his familiar face.

 

Personal attributes:  

- Married// Single// Divorced.

- Likes and interests.  

- Illustrator// typographer// animator.

- Favourite designers.

- Current job.

- Accent, so therefore:

- Hometown

- Shy// outgoing.

- Dog// Cat?

- Alcohol.  Does he drink.

Nial came up with a script for the seminar, we then went over it and refined where necessary.  The general tone was supposed to be slightly nervous, yet lighthearted.  If the second years felt his nervousness it could possibly distract them, and that's all we need.  Going back to the early research we did on the awareness test- if they're thinking more about how nervous he is they might not notice that he doesn't know what he's talking about at all.

Hello I’m Ollie…

And I’m here today to give you a brief talk about my work and my graphic design world…

I’m a little nervous so bare with me,

Right, a little about me, I’ve already said I’m Ollie, I went to the University of Brighton and I graduated 4 years ago and I have worked free lance ever since leaving.

When I first left university I did a few internships one for (insert GD firm) & (insert GD firm), I can only tell you that internships and placements are an amazing opportunity, even if its just making tea and coffee, just being in and around the environment of a design studio brilliant forum for you to express your ideas and absorb other peoples.

Once my internships finished, I unfortunately was not taken on and given a job.

But I made a few good friends at the companies and someone put my name forward as an up and coming designer to a German company Befreien Sie Entwurf, that roughly translates at free design, so in the summer of 2007 I packed my bags for 4months to the small German town of Fellbach about 25min drive from Stuttgart, where the studio was, and these are just a few pieces of work we did over there for a German music festival.

When I came back I suffered a bit of culture shock after living the German way of life for the past four months, I was approached by Nike UK to come with some posters for once of there campaigns.

So I went from working for a small firm in Germany in a studio with balding German men to working freelance for the UK arm of one of the biggest corporations in the world. This was a big eye opener to me showing how versatile a graphic designer needs to be. Especially if your working freelance because you have to adapt yourself from client to client and some clients are very stubborn and give you little room for manoeuvre.

But anyway this is the work I produced while at Nike. This experience was a great springboard for me opening a few doors and getting me a load more clients.. 

The many faces of Oliver Histon.  We tried many things from died hair to contacts to fake beards.