Tank Design

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.

What is the situation really like in Norwegian schools? How much does the quality of teaching vary across schools, local authorities and counties? How do we use our resources? Utdanningsspeilet is an annual publication from the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training and reveals the state of primary education in Norway.

Tank has worked on concepts, design and illustration since December and the report has just been published. We are proud of the result – a colourful report full of data visualisations and facts about Norwegian schools. All presented in an inviting and easy-to-read way.

Norway hosted the conference for the management of Europe’s forests in June 2011, and representatives from 46 countries participated. Tank developed the visual identity for the organisation and the conference, as well as additional editorial material. The principal document for the conference was “State of Europe´s Forests 2011″, a report which outlines the current status and trends within sustainable forest management in Europe today.

We prepared a clean template which enabled us to present large amounts of information whilst also retaining an overall sense of dynamism. The 348-page report is packed with tables, maps and graphical visualisations which represent the underlying messages in the lengthy text. The identity’s colour palette was put to use to give each chapter its own identity, and conscious typographic choices both reinforce the identity and make the report inviting and easy to read.

On Tuesday 14th of June His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon opened “FOREST EUROPE – Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe” in Oslo. Representatives and ministers from 46 countries gathered to ensure effective management of Europe’s forests.

Tank developed the visual identity and the majority of conference materials. The identity symbolises trees and forests, and also network-building and diversity.

The Norwegian National Library decided to mark Dag Solstad’s 70th birthday with an exhibition at their Oslo premises, and also commissioned online and and poster exhibitions in libraries all over the country. The exhibition contains books, newspapers, journals, audio clips, TV programmes and manuscripts which have never been on display before.

Tank designed the exhibition, drawing inspiration from El Lissitzky (the avant-garde Russian artist) who is in many ways the godfather of our profession. The final design consists of a strict colour palette and simple graphic shapes in dynamic compositions.

Abelia is NHO’s business association of knowledge-based and technology-based enterprises. To mark their 10th birthday as an organisation Abelia commissioned a new visual identity and website, asserting their position as the central source and voice for debate within Norway’s commercial knowledge base.

The colour palette and supporting graphic elements have been applied from the new visual identity to create a modern, clean and professional look. Built on a solid logical structure, the website is a semantic solution which uses themes to link together content across the whole site. This user-focused approach makes it easy to discover relevant and related content like news articles, documents and employees. Gateway pages for key target audiences are also being developed. The website was developed in collaboration with NHO and Fox Data. See more at abelia.no.

Abelia is NHO’s business association of knowledge-based and technology-based enterprises. To mark their 10th birthday as an organisation Abelia commissioned a new visual identity and website, asserting their position as the central source and voice for debate within Norway’s commercial knowledge base.

We based the logotype on a logical rhythm derived from simple geometric shapes. The colour palette signifies modernity and technology through consistent use of blue, signal yellow and grey. We re-used lines and circles from the logotype as supporting graphic elements, strengthening the idea of using individual elements to construct a whole.

The result is a simple and clear visual identity which reflects Abelia’s sobriety and professional competence.

Logo and identity for the band, cover and poster for their debut album.

This is the third year Tank has designed IT Fornebu’s annual report. It’s a comprehensive 80-page report which makes use of advanced printing techniques like block foiling, two kinds of paper, a UV varnish and cut-outs. The result is an attractive and elegant report with poetic winter photography from Espen Gees.

The brief: Mack had a small range of different sodas, the task was to redesign these more into a family of products with a clear connection between them. Solution: We expanded the universe of the Fruit Chimpansee (Fruktsjimpanse), the most successful of the five sodas. The name Fruktsjimpanse was liftet up as brand name for the whole series, only differed with colours, illustrations and the names of each taste.