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Espen Eilertsen

jens — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:56:02 +0000

Espen Eilertsen is born in 1977 in Tromsø, Norway. He studied graphic design at MI in Oslo.

After finishing his education Espen worked almost two years as a graphic designer at Sør-Stangeby Reklamebyrå, Arendal. Clients there were amongst others: Panoramagruppen (jeweler) and Aker Kværner. Before arriving here at Tank, he worked more than six years as a graphic designer/AD at Rød Tråd Reklamebyrå (Tromsø). He was central in the work with clients like TIL, Bukta Festival, Nordlysfestivalen, Troms Kraft and Sparebank1.

Espen has worked as a graphic designer at Tank since December 2011.

Espen Eilertsen

Graphic designer, Tromsø

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Karl Kristian Hansen

jens — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:55:07 +0000

Karl Kristian Hansen is born 1972 in Tromsø and received his MA in Political Science from the University of Reading (UK) in 1999.

Karl is a former active basketball player at Tromsø Storm, where he also acted as managing director. He also worked as marketing manager in Natt&Dag Tromsø, and later as a Project Manager for a number of projects at Tvibit, part of the Municipality of Tromsø.

He also has experience as a board member from several organisations including Studenthuset Driv, Hermetikken Næringshage, Samdrift and Insomnia Festival.

Karl has worked as a project manager at Tank since December 2011.

Karl Kristian Hansen

Project Manager, Tromsø

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+47 77 63 92 50

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+47 958 00 903

Christopher Ide

jens — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:38:06 +0000

Christopher Ide was born in 1979 in Starnberg, Germany. He studied graphic design at Akademie U5 in Munich, and book science, psychology and art history at Gutenberg-Universitet, Mainz.

He worked more than 3 years as a graphic designer/art director at Solutions Branding and Design Companies, Munich. After that, he freelanced as a designer for two years. Christopher also worked for German publisher Verlag Herman Schmidt Mainz.

Doffa has been working at Tank in Tromsø since October, 2010.

Christopher Ide

Graphic designer, Tromsø

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+47 77 63 92 50

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+47 450 83 820

Vibeke Laastad

jens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:15:10 +0000

Vibeke Laastad (f. 83) is from Odda in Hordaland. She´s educated at MI and BI (Trondheim) and has worked more than 2 years as graphic designer at Form til fjells (Røros).

Vibeke has been working at Tank in Tromsø since August 2010.

Vibeke Laastad

Graphic designer, Tromsø

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+47 77 63 92 50

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+47 905 92 921

Bernt B. Ottem

jens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:56:31 +0000

Bernt (b. 1970) is from Tromsdalen. His education is from the School of Graphic Design (now Westerdals School of Communication) in Oslo. He was formerly employed at Kran and at Union Design.

Bernt has been employed by and a partner in Tank Design in Tromsø from its beginning in 2002. In addition to being a designer, he has the heavy burden of keeping track of numbers at the office.

Bernt B. Ottem

Graphic designer & Partner, Tromsø

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+47 77 63 92 50

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+47 958 27 631

Bjørn Viggo Ottem

jens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:55:53 +0000

Bjørn Viggo (b. 1967) was born in Alta and grew up in Tromsø. He is married to Marit and has three children. Education: from the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (Oslo). He has been employed by and a partner in Tank since 1999. Bjørn Viggo started his career at Tank Oslo but later changed his focus to the Tromsø office.

Bjørn Viggo Ottem

Graphic designer & Partner, Tromsø

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+47 77 63 92 50

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+47 413 33 173

Tina T. Aasvestad

jens — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:51:31 +0000

Tina (b. 71) is a senior designer with a wide range of agency experience from both Oslo and Vienna. At Tank Tina works within all disciplines, but specialises in packaging and identity design.

Tina received her formal education from Kunsthøyskolen i Oslo and HSAK in Wien. An authorised member of Grafill, she has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

Tina has won gold in Visuelt (2001) and The Year’s Most Beautiful Books (2009). She has been a member of several juries, including Gullblyantspisseren.

Tina Tømmeraas Aasvestad

Graphic designer, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 59

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+47 489 98 727

About us

jens — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:03:44 +0000

Tank Design was founded in 1999 and now has a total of 18 staff in its offices in Oslo and Tromsø. Our objective is to be one of the most skilful agencies around when it comes to understanding and fulfilling our customers’ needs for visual communication.

We focus on quality, creativity and long-term working relationships. We consider it our priority to help our customers to communicate their values in such a way that it increases their worth and reputation. Every day, we look forward to going to work.

Tank Oslo
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Sagveien 18
0459 Oslo
Norway
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+47 23 12 17 50

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+47 23 12 17 51

designreg.nr.: 082177

Tank Tromsø
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Storgata 56, 2nd floor
Boks 751, 9258 Tromsø
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Ina Brantenberg

jens — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:33:03 +0000

Ina (b. 66) has been a senior graphic designer and partner at Tank since its foundation in 1999. Ina has more than 15 years’ experience in the design industry, from both Italy and Norway, and works within all areas of graphic design. Through the years she has developed particular knowledge within identity development, editorial and exhibition design. Ina is also a central player in all of Tank’s art and culture projects.

As Tank’s creative director has Ina the overall responsibility for the company’s creative development. This includes managing the creative process in all assignments of a certain size, and making sure the designers at Tank always do their best.

Ina’s formal education includes studying illustration at a public school in Florenze and four years studying graphic design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome. An authorised member of Grafill, she has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

Ina has won several awards in both Visuelt and Merket for God Design for her film posters, annual reports, election campaign materials and visual identities. She has also sat on the juries for both Visuelt and Merket for God Design. Additionally she works as an external examiner at Kunsthøyskolen i Oslo at the faculty for visual art.

Ina Brantenberg

Graphic designer & Partner, Oslo

ina(%%)tank.no

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+47 23 12 17 50

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+47 413 33 170

Øystein Flakstad

jens — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:31:22 +0000

Øystein (b. 69) has been a senior graphic designer and partner at Tank since its foundation in 1999. Øystein is a hard-working all-rounder with extensive experience in managing and coordinating the implementation of various projects. He prefers to work with editorial design, and is particularly skilled in the development and design of comprehensive and complex reports and publications. Øystein is also the agency’s managing director and handles this part of the business.

Professionally, Øystein has a background in politics and journalism. Amongst other things, Øystein has had the responsibility of being General Secretary at Unge Venstre from 1992 to 1994.

Øystein has a Master of Arts from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. An authorised member of Grafill, he has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

Øystein is currently on paternity leave.

Øystein Flakstad

Graphic designer & Partner, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 50

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+47 413 33 172

Bård Jemtland

jens — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:36:53 +0000

Bård (b. 72) is a senior designer with many years of industry experience from both design agencies and as a freelancer. He works with everything within the design spectrum. At Tank Bård works mostly with print, particularly with brand and identity development, and editorial design. Good keywords for Bård are creative, accurate and solution-oriented.

Bård has vocational education from Oppegård Secondary School in graphic design. An authorised member of Grafill, he has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

Bård Jemtland

Graphic designer, Oslo

bard(%%)tank.no

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+47 22 87 16 31

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+47 97 52 92 19

Monica Kvinge

james — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:32:39 +0000

Monica (b. 69) is in charge of business development, strategy and marketing at Tank. She also works as a consultant and project manager, with responsibility for planning and managing the company’s workload. She also leads negotiations and manages the budget for Tank’s larger projects. Monica and the three partners make up Tank’s managment team.

Monica has a law degree from Universitetet i Oslo, and has studied marketing communication at BI Norges Markedshøyskole i Oslo. Monica started her career as a legal senior before becoming the editor at Aschehoug (publishers). Through her various positions in the publishing industry Monica has gained editorial knowledge and experience with managing, marketing, public relations and communication.

Monica Kvinge

Consultant/project leader, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 57

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+47 91 85 27 22

Tom Lenartowicz

james — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:53:07 +0000

Tom (born in ’86) is a Tank designer who focuses on digital media. He is systematic and has a strong creative and conceptual focus. Tom has gained experience in Norway at TBWA\OSLO where he worked with advertising campaigns, graphic design and art direction on a variety of identity and packaging projects for print and web.

Tom trained at University College Falmouth where he graduated with BA Honours in Graphic Design.

Tom won gold at Visuelt 2011 for his work with ex-TBWA\OSLO colleague Cecilie Authén on the campaign Hugin and Munin for Odin Fond. The jury’s comments: “… Concept and execution are both painfully beautiful”.

Tom Lenartowicz

Graphic designer, Oslo

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+47 22 87 16 33

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+47 95 72 57 73

Anette Lia

jens — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:36:38 +0000

Anette (b. 73) has many years of industry experience, both as a web designer and a graphic designer. In recent years she has concentrated more on print design and now works mostly on editorial design. Anette is a good all-rounder – a creative and effective senior designer with a good eye.

Anette has a three-year college education from the School For Graphic Design (now Westerdals) and a grounding in marketing communication from NMH (now the Norwegian School of Management). She is an authorised member of Grafill and has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

Anette won a diploma and a silver award in The Year’s Most Beautiful Books (2007).

Anette Lia

Graphic designer, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 56

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+47 988 22 642

Espen Sandberg

jens — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:00:52 +0000

Espen (b. 1984) grew up at Rognan, Nordland. He has worked several years as a freelance designer with clients including Tank. He has worked full time at the Tromsø Office since january 2009.

Espen has been lead designer at the paper GRUS since they started in 2005. From 2007 to 2008 he worked as signmaker at Ivar Sandnes AS (Tromsø).

Espen Sandberg

Graphic designer, Tromsø

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+47 77 63 92 50

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+47 992 57 773

James McKay

linda — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:39:29 +0000

James (b. 78) is a designer with solid web competence from Edinburgh, through his work for notably The Bank of Scotland Corporate and the Scottish Government. James emigrated to Norway in autumn 2008 and started working at Tank at the same time. At Tank he mainly works with web design, but works with other design disciplines as well. James is also a competent illustrator.

James has an BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Communication with specialisation in Graphic Design from Edinburgh College of Art, and a Diploma in Foundation Studies from Leeds College of Art and Design. He also has a Batchelor degree in Geography! An authorised member of Grafill, he has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

James was awarded the Scottish Advertising Newcomer of the Year in 2003.

James McKay

Head of Web, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 55

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+47 90 41 28 45

Helge Persen

jens — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:06:31 +0000

Helge (b. 66) is a senior consultant, graphic designer and partner. He has worked with strategic design for more than 15 years within the fields of branding and packaging. Helge has experience from Christensen|Lund, primarily in packaging and concept development, and from Scandinavian Design Group where he worked with identity and packaging. At Tank he works mainly with strategic consulting and visual identity, and leads large and complex design processes which require a strategic foundation.

Additionally Helge works as a consultant for “Leser søker bok” (Reader seeks book) as an advisor on typograpy, readability and overall design. He also works for Abelias as a consultant for creative businesses.

Helge received his design education from Skolen for Grafisk Design (now Westerdahls), and through course-studies at NHH (Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration). He had a previous career as a photographer at Universitetet i Bergen.

Helge has won gold both in the Visuelt competition and in Merket for God Design. He has also been the head of the Visuelt competition jury and a jury member in both the Gullblyantspisseren and Gullblyanten competitions.

Helge Persen

Graphic designer & Partner, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 56

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+47 413 33 172

Linda Skarpås

jens — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:38:52 +0000

Linda (b. 76) is a senior designer at Tank and is a skilled and creative all-rounder who works across the majority of design disciplines; namely visual identity, editorial design, exhibition design and also with various artistic and cultural concepts.

Linda received her design education in San Francisco: a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in Graphic Design at the Academy of Art College, San Francisco. She also studied Graphic Design at the Merkantilt Institutt (MI) in Oslo. An authorised member of Grafill, she has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

Linda has been nominated in the Visuelt competition three times. In 2009 for the building wrap at Blitz, and packaging and promotional materials for the film “Nord“, and in 2008 for the identity and PR material for the film “The Man who loved Yngve“. She was a jury member for the Gullblyanten awards in 2009.

Linda Skarpås

Graphic designer, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 56

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+47 970 46 471

Suzanne Svendsen

jens — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:07:14 +0000

Suzanne (b. 82) is one of Tank’s designers. She works principally with editorial design and identity development. Her work is creative, inventive and accurate with a great attention to detail.

Suzanne has a bachelor (Honours) in Graphic Design from the University College Falmouth (Falmouth College of Arts) in England, and also studied Graphic Design at Idéfagskolen in Tønsberg. An authorised member of Grafill, she has completed the course which gives the right to the professional title AMG.

Suzanne Svendsen

Graphic designer, Oslo

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+47 23 12 17 50

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+47 958 56 278

Sunniva de Villiers

james — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:14:58 +0000

Sunniva (b. 80) has recently returned to Norway after five years working as a graphic designer in New York. Whilst in the US Sunniva worked at The New York Times as an art director in charge of the Pulitzer Prize nomination catalogues. Previous to this she was an art director at Exposure USA, working on brands such as Nike, Playstation and Dr. Martens.

At Tank Sunniva works within all disciplines and makes important contributions to strengthening our webdesign skills. Sunniva is also a competent illustrator.

Sunniva has a Bachelor in Visual Communication from Kunsthøyskolen i Oslo and a Master in Design from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She is a member of Grafill.

Sunniva is currently on maternity leave and will return in spring 2012.

Sunniva de Villiers

Graphic designer, Oslo

sunniva(%%)tank.no

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+47 22 87 16 33

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+47 404 50 007

Jens K Styve

jens — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:54:59 +0000

Jens (b. 1972) grew up in Hjelmås, Nordhordland. His education is from the University of Bergen (Media Science and TV Production) and the University of Tromsø (Computer Science and Creative Writing).

Jens has recieved several awards for both packaging design, visual identities, illustrations and websites.

In autumn of 2007 he released his novel, I, Ove Kvamme, from the publishing house Cappelen Damm.

Jens K Styve

Graphic designer & Partner, Tromsø

jens(%%)tank.no

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+47 77 63 92 50

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+47 971 46 759