john christopher burns DESIGN

Welcome to a small, well-meaning place where handcrafted design is done...
  • for television (in any standard, any definition),
  • for user interfaces large and small,
  • for the world wide web,
  • for print, for CD covers, for menus down the street so we get free food,
  • for non-profits we’re friends with,
  • for passers-by who flash large denominations of cash our way,
  • for friends of friends,
  • against our better judgement,
  • and so on.

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Graphic design. For television, and more.

KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.
When KOIN became KOIN Local 6, it was important that it was steeped deeply in all things Portland.
’Ahead’ bumper for News 14 Carolina, twin 24 hour newschannels in Raleigh and Charlotte.
WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.

Please judge this book design by its cover, and yes, the inside pages too.
Traffic maps don’t have to look like they’re coming from an Apple // computer, as this Capital News 9 map shows.
Verizon FiOS1 is a 24 hour weather and traffic channel in suburban Washington D.C. with some hyperlocal programming and sports mixed in. A challenge!
Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.

Capital News 9 ‘Breaking news’ open. We also created a ‘Just in’ open so the 24 hour channel wouldn’t be crying ‘wolf’ at every car crash.
Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
Pro bono (that meant free) redesign of Atlanta’s PBS station. The Emmy and PBS awards we won were icing on the cake.
Logo design for a satellite-delivered network from Barbados.
WIS News (Columbia, SC) redesign that emphasized the call letters over the channel number.

The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.
Logo as part of a complete package for WAFF 48 Huntsville.
Interactive design for the set-top: AT&T Interactive tried to make a video interface easy for users who wanted to order a pizza, read their mail, and oh yeah, watch TV.
The story of Georgia’s prehistory is between the covers of Early Georgia, and those covers are my work, using Adobe After Effects at print resolution.
Complete original design for News 24 Houston, a 24 hour news channel launched by Time Warner and Belo in 2002, and brought to a crashing halt in July 2004.

Bay News 9’s Breaking News animation, trying to get viewers’ attention without all the usual clichés.
Scott Jones is an expert at lithics—stone tools. He'd prefer, however, to leave his web design to me.
WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
Weather on the Sevens component of the News 24 Houston opens.
Good Morning America promo tag for ABC’s popular morning show.

With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.
A big ol’ poster for Georgia’s Archaeology Week celebration.
A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
Not every archaeological site gets its own website, but when dozens of visitors ask the question “What’cha doing out there...”

Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.
Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’
WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.

An unsuccessful proposed redesign for the NBC Owned stations. It’s hard to resist making the NBC peacock colors something less electric, but I try and play by the rules.
Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
Virtual set for Bay News 9 En Español, in Tampa/St. Petersburg.
I believe in TV stations looking like their environment, so the colors and terrain of the Southwest are a big part of my KOAT Albuquerque design work.
News 24 Houston’s animated two box live, or double-box, or split box, or whatever you call it..


25 years of designing, thinking, learning. Images copyright ©2010, jcbD. All rights reserved.