Tanya Kanner

Navigating the Israeli Kitchen

tanyakanner — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 06:05:39 +0000

Yashar Yashar Ad Hasof, Navigating the Israeli Kitchen, is a new cookbook project I am involved in, intended to help new immigrants to Israel acclimate to the differences in the measurement systems, as well as working with the ingredients available to them in a foreign country. By creating shapes using just the type and its layout, this is an experiment in making type the graphic. Through the use of scale and balance, a visual hierarchy is created within the composition, and the colours reflect the category of a recipe on a given page.

Victorinox Handylady

tanyakanner — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:13:29 +0000

An ad campaign promoting a new Victorinox product based on an old classic. A swiss army knife targeted specifically at women, with the same functions as most of the classic knives. The campaign takes the stance of empowerment, showcasing women as strong, graceful individuals and focus on the power they already have, rather than trying to convince them that they need the product because of qualities lacking.

Paperclips

tanyakanner — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:18:09 +0000

I took this quote to mean that the typography must reflect whatever is being expressed in the content. In essence, typography is what holds the meaning of a text together. I illustrated the quote using paperclips, as objects that hold things together, and manipulated the paperclips by hand to create the letterforms that spelled out Robert Bringhurst’s quote.

DaniellaB

tanyakanner — Mon, 04 Aug 2003 05:14:15 +0000

Daniella Events, is a start up event company in Israel, offering boutique event planning, and custom gourmet baked goods.

Family Tree

tanyakanner — Fri, 04 Aug 2000 07:31:28 +0000

This is a modern take on a really traditional family tree. I wanted to take the unbelievable generations of history in this clients family and illustrate them in a colourful, playful, but still appropriate way. Using various icons to represent the different stories, and events that happened throughout time and between people, I created this visual representation of this wonderful family. This is still one of my favourite projects to date.

CPP | Winter Ball

tanyakanner — Mon, 04 Aug 1997 08:14:58 +0000

This is a logo for a Children’s Peace Project, a charity benefitting orphans in Haiti, with the vision of eliminating poverty and creating a better life for them. This graphic was created for their upcoming Winter Charity Ball to go on all the stationery and marketing materials. The logo was intended to take a barren tree representative of the poverty stricken children in Haiti, and decorate it with Christmas lights inspiring the hope and revitalization that this dinner will bring to the children.

My Seven Elephants

tanyakanner — Thu, 04 Aug 1994 07:55:29 +0000

My Seven Elephants is a fresh new Australian company offering beautifully designed, ergonomic, personalised bags for kids. They chose the name as elephants are strong, durable, loyal, loving and family oriented – just like the company. They wanted a brand that strongly represented all of those wonderful qualities so we worked to create a family of playful, colourful, loyal little elephants!

M7E Illustration Series

tanyakanner — Thu, 04 Aug 1994 07:54:58 +0000

My Seven Elephants is a fresh new Australian company offering beautifully designed, ergonomic, personalised bags for kids. They chose the name as elephants are strong, durable, loyal, loving and family oriented – just like the company. These illustrations are the first in a series of characters that kids can pick and choose from to personalize their backpacks with!

Molly Maid

tanyakanner — Sun, 04 Aug 1991 07:13:45 +0000

A campaign for Molly Maid, a residential maid service. I wanted the campaign to break down the elements of the problem and solution in the simplest way possible, using line, shape and colour to illustrate a before and after situation. I thought it would be interesting to take a creative approach to a process that is usually seen as mundane in the intention of drawing the interest of the viewer and giving them a different perspective on cleaning and the people they employ to do so.

Romeo & Juliet

tanyakanner — Tue, 04 Aug 1987 07:00:30 +0000

A series of posters promoting the classic play as it shows at The Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto. Using the process of ink stamping, carving my own images in to an illustration board and then using the result as a stamp, I created this ‘game’ series to illustrate the nature of the play. A theme that is very apparent to me in this play, among Shakespeare’s other plays, is manipulation. In my opinion, the characters always seem to be toying with one another, there is more than one side to every person, and honesty is not the most prominent trait. Games seemed to be the perfect way to illustrate that, so I did so using purple as a colour to reflect the subtlety of the concept. Purple being a colour generally associated with wealth: relevant with the
story being rich in meaning and the characters being in a feud very much based on money or lack thereof.