Tank Design

Tank was asked by The Norwegian Directorate of Health to design a national quit-smoking campaign. The campaign has provoked some strong reactions with its explicit use of imagery. It consists of films and adverts in both newspapers and magazines, and huge number of web banners. Photography by Jo Michael, amongst others.

BETT is the world’s leading educational technology event, where professionals can try or buy a comprehensive range of ICT products and services. Cappelen Damm Undervisning commissioned Tank to produce a concept and design for their 3×4 metre exhibition stand. We designed display walls, a TV box, furniture, decor as well as branded material and print.

Our client said: “Thank you so much for a great stand. Everyone at Cappelen Damm, not to mention many others at the exhibition, thought the stand design was very, very good. Choosing to focus on one message was also an excellent decision which worked very well.”

We’re both proud and happy to have been selected for the job of developing a new visual identity for Norway’s leading stock brokers. Arctic Securities are a full-service financial business with around 120 employees in Oslo and Brazil.

Three of Tank’s annual reports have been chosen for Graphis’ 100 Best annual reports from 2010. Our annual reports for IT Fornebu, Rocksource and Cardinal Foods were selected for inclusion. You can buy the book here: http://www.graphis.com/store/?p=531

We are very proud and happy to have two of the best heads in Tromsø moving in at our office. Espen Eilertsen is a graphic designer with lots of experience, last seen working six years in Rød Tråd Reklamebyrå. Karl Kristian Hansen is a heavily educated man with lots of project managment experience from for instance Tromsø Storm and Tvibit/Tromsø Kommune.

The Norwegian Directorate of Health has yet again chosen Tank to design their regular publications. We were also assigned to part B of the general agreement (for additional design work) along with four other agencies. We look forward to continuing our work with this large and important client.

We are happy to announce that we’ve won two new competitions: to start developing a new visual identity for the new Urban Environment Department in Oslo, and to develop packaging concepts for the entrepreneurs Samson Sea.

“Jeg reiser alene” premiered in February and now it’s finally out on BluRay and DVD. Jarle Klepp is back again and Tank has designed the film poster and marketing material for the film. Director Stian Kristiansen has created a touching and funny story, where Jarle Klepp’s student life is turned upside down when his daughter appears from out of the blue. Charlotte Isabel is the result of a one night stand seven years and nine months beforehand, as seen in the film “Mannen som elsket Yngve“. Now she’s flying over to spend a week with her new father… Screenplay by Tore Renberg and produced by Motlys. See more at www.facebook.com/jegreiseralene.

Tank was responsible for both the design and marketing material for “Få meg på, for faen” (“Turn me on, goddammit” in English), a funny and frank film about teenage horniness and rebellion. The film is about 15-year old Alma, her sexual awakening and the consequences of broadcasting it to her peers. The film has already been highly praised and was awarded the prize for best screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring. Jannicke Systad Jacobsen wrote the screenplay and directed the film, with support from production company Motlys. The premiere is on the 19th of August. Read more at www.facebook.com/FaMegPaForFaen.

Each year Tank donates design time to an organisation which deserves it. This year’s sponsored project will be for Project Haiti, a volunteer-driven humanitarian organisation which focusses on education and training. The organisation has strong local roots and currently co-ordinates a school, a women’s network involved in a number of training projects, a youth club and a bakery.

Our work in updating their visual identity is already underway, and we hope to deliver the new identity by September 2011.