Name:
Bjorgvin Olafsson

Profession:
Graphic designer/Creative Director

Date of Birth:
26/02/54

Place of Birth:
Iceland

Post Address:
Gardavegur 6
220 Hafnarfjordur
Iceland

Personal Netsite:
www.islandia.is/bo

Portfolio Netsite:
www.islandia.is/bo/portfolio

Personal E-mail:
bo@islandia.is


CV:

1980-1986:

Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Mixed Media Department.

1982-1984:

Design and page lay-outs for left-wing newspaper Thjodviljinn.

1984-1986:

Designs for weekly culture and news magazine Helgarposturinn.

1986-1990:

Freelance graphic designer for the print media. Magazine designs for various publications including magazines about fashion (Still), movies (Sjonmal), health (Heilsuvernd), handicrafts (Lopi&band), news (Thjodmal) and others. Also ads and promotion for various clients.

1986-1988:

Part time designer/art director at Iceland Review, a publication house wich publishes Iceland Review, a high quality promotion magazine for Iceland, Atlantica, inflight magazine for Icelandair and various other printed projects, books and brochures.

1989-1990:

Freelance project for IR. The In-flight magazine for domestic flights of Icelandair: Upphatt.

1988-2001:

Employed at the Icelandic Broadcasting Corporation as a graphic designer and creative director for television off- and onscreen. The job includes designing and directing the production of title sequences for programs produced inhouse, the channel identities and program junctions for Channel 2 and other stations belonging to the company. Also creative direction of the graphic identity of the daily news program 19-20 and the official internet websites for the company: http://www.ys.is

1996-2001:

Head of TV-Graphics Department for Northern Lights Communication. The NLC runs four TV-stations:CHANNEL 2, a family orientated mixed entertainment station, SYN, a sportschannel, BIORASIN, a movie channel, and POPPTV, a music channel.

2002-2003:

Freelance Graphic designer

Tecnical info:
I work on Macintosh computers and use mostly Macromedia FreeHand and Adobe Photoshop. For video production I use Adobe AfterEffects and Media100 for output. I am also quite fluent with other graphic programs commonly used on the Macintosh like the Adobe Illustrator, Painter and QuarkXPress. I use Adobe ImageReady, Macromedia Dreamweawer, BBEdit and SimpleText for my web designs and I know my ways in Macromind Director and Flash Shockwave animation.

Awards and Nominations:

Channel 2 Millennium look: Nomination for the Scandinavian Trailer Award. 2001

Channel 2 Millennium look: The IMARK award for Environmental Graphics. 2001

Channel 2 Millennium look: Nomination for Best Sting at the Promax2001 Amsterdam. 2001

From wich asshole are you eating: Nomination for an IMARK award as best poster. 2002

From wich asshole are you eating: Nomination for an IMARK award as the most interesting commercial. 2002

Nordic TV-Award: Head of the jury in nominating the best entertainment program, Stockholm 2001

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