Before After Effects

This lovely piece was produced by Oliver Harrison at St Martin’s School of Art in 1988. Yup – that’s 21 years ago and seven years before Adobe released After Effects. It was adapted in 1989 for a Royal Mail ‘Letters of Love’ commercial for Valentine’s day and won a clutch of awards. The song is Amore Baciami (Kiss me, my love) by Lidia Martorana.

I used to have it on a dusty old VHS and have rued the day that I lost it, but mercifully it’s appeared on YouTube. Hopefully we’ll see more of Harrison’s early work online soon. Inspirational stuff then and now.

David Rainbird
Posted on Thursday, 23rd of July 2009 Permalink Comment (0)