Wednesday 24th February saw Highfurlong welcome Ed Christiano from Encore, a graphic design and advertising company. Ed was born in New York and is very talented in portrait drawing. He studied Holography and Digital Audio Synthesis, before heading to the bright lights of LA. Whilst in LA, He worked with Carol Lawrence from Sex And The City, and at his first party he was rubbing shoulders with comedy legend Leslie Nielsen!
Ed then went on to work on a film called 'Violet’, which went on to win The Best Short Film Academy Award. The Young Chamber were then fascinated to learn that Ed actually worked on the late Michael Jackson’s music videos 'Rock With You’ and 'She’s Out Of My Life’!
Some of the other big names Ed has demonstrated his talent in Digital Audio are Christopher Walken in 'Brainstorm’, Tony Curtis in the hit TV series 'Vegas’, and even 'Escape To Victory’, with Brazilian football legend Pele.
Blackpool was Ed’s next destination and his first project over here was to design the cassette label for ventriloquist character Orville!
The Young Chamber were looking to see how they can use graphic design on the Apple Mac to create images for T Shirts, in aid of a fashion show. Ed had previously created logos for O’Malley’s Crisps and Big Boss Pizza, so the students learnt a lot and were delighted to have Ed in as a very special, local guest. A side from demonstrating how to use graphics, he also was very inspiring and showed that if you really want something, you can go out and get it.