Arvinge okänd

Arvinge okänd (Heir Unknown) is a television series produced by SVT, the Swedish national public television broadcaster. Where two hosts are on a mission to find a deceased person’s living relatives and thus presenting them with their inheritance. This requires digging far back in time and sometimes to the farthest corners of the world.

The logo resembles a family tree and even a magnifying glass. It’s animation represents the search for the heir and when it is found.

Video of the intro @ behance.net

A family tree
The family tree could be either really simple
A family tree
The family tree could even be wildly complicated
Timeline showing lifespan
The timeline shows the lifespan of the deceased. Marked with stars at birth and death.
A timeline
The timeline had icons to indicate greater life events, and a plaque explaining what that icon stands for when it first appears.
A timeline with a period
A shaded banner shows a time period, here connected to the years the deceased lived in Russia
A timeline showing a time period within a time period
Sometimes it was even necessary to show a time period within another time period.

Info graphics

The graphics showing the family tree tracing to the heir and the timeline showing the deceased person had to be simple but clear because they were frequently revisited and added to during each program.

Where are we graphics

The graphics showing the family tree tracing to the heir and the timeline showing the deceased person had to be simple but clear because they were frequently revisited and added to during each program.

Interludes

The program was intertwined with people telling stories on the same theme as the main story would be built around. I kept the graphic form but added a frame that would sit through the sequence strengthening the notion that it was within hyphens. That was further heightened with a different colour scheme.