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Kan 11: 10 Facts

A history explainer series built out of the archive itself: photographs, posters and maps cut into motion.

Client
Kan 11, Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
Role
Art Direction, Design
Disciplines
Art Direction / Motion / Archival Collage
A 10 Facts episode frame: a fighter aircraft, a ship and archival crowd photographs cut against cyan blocks and heavy Hebrew type.

The challenge

Turn dense historical subjects into short episodes that hold attention on a feed, without flattening the history into decoration or losing the weight of the source material.

The idea

Build each episode from the archive rather than around it. Period photographs, propaganda posters, maps and postcards are cut against flat graphic shapes and heavy Hebrew type, so the original material carries the story and the design only sets its pace.

The system

A consistent kit across episodes: paper-grain grounds, a cyan-and-black accent palette, hard-edged colour blocks, numbered markers and typographic call-outs that hold a collage together while it moves.

The outcome

Produced as an episodic explainer series for Kan 11, every episode built on the same kit so the series reads as one while each subject differs.

Role & contribution

I art-directed and designed the series: the archival collage language, the typographic system, and the kit of paper grounds, colour blocks and numbered markers that keeps episodes consistent while each one differs.
An episode frame titled Vienna: an archival street photograph, a period motor car and a numbered marker over paper-grain colour blocks.
Each fact is numbered and built from the archive itself rather than illustrated around it.
A frame titled Belarus: the country’s outline, its flag as a ribbon behind heavy Hebrew type, and the year 1891 set large.
Maps, dates and type do the explaining, so an episode still reads with the sound off.
A statistics frame: a cyan territory shape with a timeline of population figures and a headline that the area and population tripled.
Data is set in the same kit as the archive, so a number never arrives looking like a different film.
A frame titled The Third Aliyah: an archival photograph of a ship with 1920 set in outline type across it.
The date sits inside the photograph rather than on a card before it.
Two period labour-movement posters cut against a mint-green ground.
Original posters are used at full strength; the design only sets their pace.
Film

An episode from the 10 Facts series, built from archival photographs, posters and maps cut against flat graphic shapes and heavy Hebrew type.

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