Tank Design

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

Telephone
+47 22 87 16 31

Mobile
+47 97 52 92 19

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

monica(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 23 12 17 57

Mobile
+47 91 85 27 22

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

tom(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 22 87 16 33

Mobile
+47 95 72 57 73

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

anette(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 23 12 17 56

Mobile
+47 988 22 642

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

espen(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 77 63 92 50

Mobile
+47 992 57 773

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

james(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 23 12 17 55

Mobile
+47 90 41 28 45

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

helge(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 23 12 17 56

Mobile
+47 413 33 172

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

linda(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 23 12 17 56

Mobile
+47 970 46 471

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

suzanne(%%)tank.no

Telephone
+47 23 12 17 50

Mobile
+47 958 56 278

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

Telephone
+47 22 87 16 33

Mobile
+47 404 50 007