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.

’Ahead’ bumper for News 14 Carolina, twin 24 hour newschannels in Raleigh and Charlotte.
Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.
With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.
WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.

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.
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.
Logo as part of a complete package for WAFF 48 Huntsville.
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.
Weather on the Sevens component of the News 24 Houston opens.

WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.
WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
Good Morning America promo tag for ABC’s popular morning show.
KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.

Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.
Not every archaeological site gets its own website, but when dozens of visitors ask the question “What’cha doing out there...”
Bill Tullis has long been a legend in Atlanta sound. Now his website reflects that stature.
A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.

Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
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.
Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.
When KOIN became KOIN Local 6, it was important that it was steeped deeply in all things Portland.

Scott Jones is an expert at lithics—stone tools. He'd prefer, however, to leave his web design to me.
Dynamic logo design for ESPN’s MotoWorld, bringing unneeded elegance to the world of motorcycle racing.
Logo design for a company that consults on how to get bits from point a to point b.
The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.
Pro bono (that meant free) redesign of Atlanta’s PBS station. The Emmy and PBS awards we won were icing on the cake.

News 24 Houston’s Traffic Center open.
News 24 Houston’s animated two box live, or double-box, or split box, or whatever you call it..
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.
Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’

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.
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.
Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
CNN Headline News bumper, part of the 1989 redesign.
Please judge this book design by its cover, and yes, the inside pages too.


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