About me
Hola!
My name is Oliver, I'm a freelance graphic designer and t-shirt artist from Spain.
Born in Benidorm in 1983, the glorious decade of the 80s. The year of the Return of the Jedi, the VHS tapes and cassettes both for listening to music and for playing on a ZX Spectrum. Perhaps it was a sign of all that was to come to become what I'm right now.
As a teenager, during the Basic General Education course at the Lope de Vega International School, I began to feel attracted to image editing. I was starting to get acquainted with a program called Photoshop and I was doing my first photomontages and video edits.
While I was growing up, I became fond of movies, television series, and video games. Pop culture flowed around me as the years went by.
At the end of the Baccalaureate in 2001, it was clear to me that I wanted to study something related to image and sound.
2004: Art School
After a brief sep at the University of Alicante, studying Sound and Image Engineering in Telecommunications (2001-2003), I changed my career to do in 2004 a Higher Degree Formative Cycle in Advertising Graphics at the School of Art and Higher Education of Design of Alicante.
There I was formed as a Superior Technician of Plastic Arts and Design in Advertising Graphics, belonging to the professional artistic family of Graphic and Audiovisual Communication.
2007: News Group
At the same time, in 2007, I started working for the company News and Audiovisual Group of Benidorm, dedicated to writing news for local press and audiovisual media both on radio and television.
I was in charge of the advertising for companies and small local businesses, also helping in the layout of various newspapers at the regional level of the province of Alicante.
2010: Fanisetas
2010 was the year that began a new stage.
Fanisetas was a small online store of t-shirts for fans of movies, television series and video games. The perfect place for someone like me!
As part of the company New Technologies and Graphic Design Consultancy, I was in charge of helping in the graphic design section doing advertising, graphic resources for web pages and the design of t-shirts for the Fanisetas brand.
Fanisetas grew rapidly until it became a national benchmark for the sale of original t-shirts, with various designs appearing on different programs and television series.
2013: Olipop Art & Design
After the departure from Fanisetas, there was a great free road ahead and a difficult decision. Work again as a graphic designer for another company? Do only t-shirt designs? And why not offer all that and do other more creative things as well?
Olipop Art & Design was born in 2013.
Becoming self-employed and starting to work as a freelance graphic designer until today, I dedicate myself to doing work related to everything for which I have been developing and with the experience that my professional career has allowed me to acquire.
2007: Visual Arts
To increase my studies, in 2007 I began to study the Visual Arts distance career at the Visual Arts Institute online center.
I was expanding the role of the graphic designer towards of an expert in Visual Design, Web Design and Video Design and Production. A profile capable of understanding and conceptualizing multimedia proposals, and of expressing them in a graphic, web or audiovisual way, using the most innovative technology in creative studios.
Oliver Ibáñez (Olipop Art & Design)
2017: Movie Extra
In 2017, because of a casting for a feature film that was being shot in Benidorm and whose main actor was Vincent Cassel, I discovered the profession of a movie extra and all the work behind the cameras, something that I have always liked and valued a lot for the effort involved in a production of any kind.
Since then, I have been lucky enough to participate in some projects for feature films and television series, sharing scenes with national and international actors or under the direction of great production companies such as El Deseo and directors of the stature of Isabel Coixet.
2013: Olipop Art & Design
In 2018 I began my admission to the Unión Musical de Benidorm school. There I begin the basic teachings of musical language, as well as the learning necessary to play the French Horn. In this way, I came to fulfill a dream that had always been pending since my adolescence, that of playing a musical instrument. I put myself in the hands of an almost centenary institution, since the UMB was founded in Benidorm in 1926. It currently has more than 230 students of all ages and in which they are committed to diversity of any kind.
2013: Olipop Art & Design
2023: Olipop Anniversary
In 2017, because of a casting for a feature film that was being shot in Benidorm and whose main actor was Vincent Cassel, I discovered the profession of a movie extra and all the work behind the cameras, something that I have always liked and valued a lot for the effort involved in a production of any kind.
Since then, I have been lucky enough to participate in some projects for feature films and television series, sharing scenes with national and international actors or under the direction of great production companies such as El Deseo and directors of the stature of Isabel Coixet.
After the departure from Fanisetas, there was a great free road ahead and a difficult decision. Work again as a graphic designer for another company? Do only t-shirt designs? And why not offer all that and do other more creative things as well?
Olipop Art & Design was born in 2013.
Becoming self-employed and starting to work as a freelance graphic designer until today, I dedicate myself to doing work related to everything for which I have been developing and with the experience that my professional career has allowed me to acquire.
2013: Olipop Art & Design
After the departure from Fanisetas, there was a great free road ahead and a difficult decision. Work again as a graphic designer for another company? Do only t-shirt designs? And why not offer all that and do other more creative things as well?
Olipop Art & Design was born in 2013.
Becoming self-employed and starting to work as a freelance graphic designer until today, I dedicate myself to doing work related to everything for which I have been developing and with the experience that my professional career has allowed me to acquire.
2023: Youth Band
In 2018 I began my admission to the Musical Union of Benidorm school. There I begin the basic teachings of musical language, as well as the necessary learning to play the french horn. In this way, I came to fulfill a dream that had always been pending since my adolescence, playing a musical instrument.
I put myself in hands of an almost centenary institution, since the UMB was founded in Benidorm in 1926. It has more that 230 students of all ages in which they are committed to diversity of any kind.
Olipop Art & Design turns 10!
With the beginning of the year 2023 comes the great anniversary of my personal brand. 10 years since I started my journey as a freelance graphic designer where I have had the great luck and opportunity to develop professionally, especially in textile arts design, merchandising and social networks management.
Thanks to that, the name of Olipop was acquiring renown among the main brands in the print-on-demand market. a booming market that allowed me to become known to work on other diverse projects as creation and editing of audiovisual content, packaging design and brand development.
All of this, combined with the rest of activities and works as a tv/movie extra and amusical acts.
On December 17th I officially join the youth band of the Musical Union of Benidorm. It has been years of studies and practices to finally end up playing the french horn in an orchestra along with other class mates.
This fact proves that it's never too late to start on something that is truly a passion that can be acquire with effort.. And there is nothing more beautiful to acquire as an experience than music.
