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.

  • Virtual set for Bay News 9 En Español, in Tampa/St. Petersburg.
    In a strong city built on the history of steel, WKBN and its sister stations now communicate with a clear new voice.
    Please judge this book design by its cover, and yes, the inside pages too.
    WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.
    News 24 Houston’s Traffic Center open.
  • Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
    CNN Headline News bumper, part of the 1989 redesign.
    WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
    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.
    When KOIN became KOIN Local 6, it was important that it was steeped deeply in all things Portland.
  • Pro bono (that meant free) redesign of Atlanta’s PBS station. The Emmy and PBS awards we won were icing on the cake.
    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.
    Bill Tullis has long been a legend in Atlanta sound. Now his website reflects that stature.
    Bay News 9’s Breaking News animation, trying to get viewers’ attention without all the usual clichés.
    A big ol’ poster for Georgia’s Archaeology Week celebration.
  • The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.
    Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.
    KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.
    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.
    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!
  • WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
    With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.
    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.
    Weather on the Sevens component of the News 24 Houston opens.
    A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.
  • 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.
    Logo design for a company that consults on how to get bits from point a to point b.
    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.
    WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
  • Scott Jones is an expert at lithics—stone tools. He'd prefer, however, to leave his web design to me.
    WIS News (Columbia, SC) redesign that emphasized the call letters over the channel number.
    Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
    Logo as part of a complete package for WAFF 48 Huntsville.
    Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’
  • Dynamic logo design for ESPN’s MotoWorld, bringing unneeded elegance to the world of motorcycle racing.
    Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.
    WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.
    WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
    ’Ahead’ bumper for News 14 Carolina, twin 24 hour newschannels in Raleigh and Charlotte.