During this autumn we got two new designers at our office in Tromsø. Vibeke from Odda, Hordaland, and Christopher from Starnberg, Germany.
Vibeke Laastad (born 1983) is educated at MI and BI (Trondheim) and has worked more than 2 years as graphic designer at Form til fjells (Røros).
Christopher Ide 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 one year for German publisher Verlag Herman Schmidt Mainz.
We are proud and happy to now have Peab, Abelia, Morpol and Norsk VVS on our client list.
Peab are scandinavia’s largest construction and civil engineering company with a workforce of 15,000. We have the pleasure of supplying Peab Norway with branding and design.
Abelia is the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise’s sector for knowledge-based enteprises (of which Tank is also a member). We look forward to embarking on some exciting projects together in the coming months.
Morpol is the world’s largest processor of salmon products, and also has the largest sales and distribution of finished salmon products. The company has more than 3,000 employees in eight countries and had a turnover of around 340 million Euros in 2009. Based on the wish to strengthen their market position in other markets, Morpol have now established themselves at Oslo Stock Exchange. Tank will help with their positioning and the design of financial material.
Norsk VVS is a specialist magazine which covers energy and the environment, and considers itself to be the industry’s favourite magazine for the latest news within this field. Tank has given the magazine a new look and developed a flexible layout, taking into account the need for advertising space whilst also making the editorial content both clear and tidy. It’s been fun creating a non-traditional design solution for a serious and weighty specialist magazine — and to collaborate with a brave and engaged client. Long may it continue!
German Design Council about Halvors packaging:
Tank Design’s work for Halvors fish products is an ideal execution of the current back-to-basics trend in food packaging. Here, the packaging is not used as a pushy marketing tool, embellished with colourful renditions of its contents and inflated text. Rather, it gives customers the reassuring opportunity to see exactly what they are getting. The clear-cut black and white design is unpretentious and credible while providing ample space for straightforward information about how the fish products need to be prepared.
The understated design perfectly reflects a new appreciation of how food should be presented and consumed in a mindful way. It is a uniquely intelligent and contemporary approach by a small, quality brand to target modern households with a traditional product – one that is not only appealing from a design perspective, but also lucrative as a retail success story in Norway.
Our work for Halvors Tradisjonsfisk in Tromsø, Norway, has wonDesignpreis Deutschland, Germany´s highest award in product- and communication design.It is known as the »Prize of Prizes«. The reason: no other design award sets such strict criteria on entries. Thus, a company can only enter the competition for the Design Award if its product has already been awarded a national or international design prize. Another precondition for entry is that companies must have been nominated by the Ministries and Senators of the Federal States or by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.
Halvors Tradisjonsfisk has won a lot of awards earlier, both at home and abroad, latest Norsk Designråds Merket For God Design.
The national conference for quality within vocational training institutions is an annual event held by The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, and the Ministry of Education and Research. Tank got the assignment to create a name and visual identity for the conference in Lillehammer which runs from 20th–21st October. The conference was successful, and some images from the event can be seen here.
Entra Eiendom’s 2009 Annual Report received the following review in the category for conceptual design. An excerpt from the review: “It’s a very liberating experience to see large public organisations communicate as well as Entra does. Traditionally, state-owned companies are a little behind when it comes to annual reports. Entra however is ahead of the private sector! We must say that this is good craftsmanship. Graphs and tables are also some of the best we have seen in this year’s competition … in conclusion this is a really beautiful report which is head and shoulders above many of the other either party or wholly state-owned companies.
Our Work for Mack Breweries Tradition Series received a silver medal at Pentawards 2010.
– We are proud and happy, this proves that what we can make an impact, also abroad, says Bjørn Viggo Ottem at Tank Design in Tromsø.
Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. It is open to everybody in all countries who are associated with the creation and marketing of packaging. Packaging design from the world over created or brought out in 2009/10 will be judged by a likewise international jury that will select the winners in accordance with the creative quality of the work submitted.
Motion graphic gurus DVEIN and dynamic designer duo Oh Yeah Studio are booked for this years event.
Dvein is a spanish studio of illustrators, art directors and 3D animators consisting of Fernando Dominguez, Teo Guillem and Carlos Pardo. Their motion graphics work is a mixture of real and imaginary worlds, both conceptually and technically. The studio started out working for Kyle Cooper (Imaginary Forces), creating titles for Spider-Man 3 and more. Its international recognition, under the name Dvein, came through the creation of jobs like Diesel Liquid Space, and the creation of credits for some of the major festivals of digital art, such as OFFF, F5 and Tocame.
Oh Yeah Studio is a duo, Christina and Hans Christian. They met in school in Norway where they started collaborating (and became a couple), and doing their ‘thing’, making idealistic projects and explore new fields and have fun. The studio has had a natural development since it started as a hobby project- and into what it is today, a multidisciplinary design studio with two full-time designers.
Their style and technique is usually combined analogue and digital drawing and the images are often made up by few colors and abstract shapes. The fusion is interesting because the digital vector shapes are a contrast to the analogue drawings. Vectors give you perhaps a more designed feel, whereas the drawings evoke an expression of the ideological craftsmanship of the artist/illustrator, which is more about the creation of things.
Date: Friday, October 22nd.
Time: 18.00
Place: Verdensteatret, Tromsø
http://cargocollective.com/designvsmusic
18:00-18:30 : Welcome
18:30-19:30 : Oh Yeah Studio (Oslo)
19:30-20:00 : Pause
20:00-21:00 : Dvein (Barcelona)
21:30- : Concerts/Insomniafestival
Please sign up here.
We are VERY proud to tell that motion graphic gurus Dvein will be main guests at our design workshop Design vs Music.
Dvein is a spanish studio of illustrators, art directors and 3D animators consisting of Fernando Dominguez Valencia, Zaragoza Teo Guillem and Carlos Pardo. Their motion graphics work is a mixture of real and imaginary worlds, both conceptually and technically. The studio started out working for Kyle Cooper (Imaginary Forces), creating titles for Spider-Man 3 and more. Its international recognition, under the name Dvein, came through the creation of jobs like Diesel Liquid Space, and the creation of credits for some of the major festivals of digital art, such as OFFF, F5 and Tocame.
http://cargocollective.com/designvsmusic
After their success with Mannen som elsket Yngve (“The Man who Loved Yngve”), Motlys are filming the life of Jarle Klepp once again, this time in Bergen where he’s now studying literature. One day a letter arrives from the Police which asks him to take a DNA test…
Tank created the teaser poster, badges and banners for the film festival in Haugesund where film folk and enthusiasts got a sneak preview. The film premieres in February.
