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.

Please judge this book design by its cover, and yes, the inside pages too.
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.
A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
When KOIN became KOIN Local 6, it was important that it was steeped deeply in all things Portland.
Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.

Pro bono (that meant free) redesign of Atlanta’s PBS station. The Emmy and PBS awards we won were icing on the cake.
WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.
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.
Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.

Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.
News 24 Houston’s animated two box live, or double-box, or split box, or whatever you call it..
News 24 Houston’s Traffic Center open.
Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
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.

Traffic maps don’t have to look like they’re coming from an Apple // computer, as this Capital News 9 map shows.
Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.
Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
Scott Jones is an expert at lithics—stone tools. He'd prefer, however, to leave his web design to me.

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.
Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.
Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.

In a strong city built on the history of steel, WKBN and its sister stations now communicate with a clear new voice.
WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
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!
Bill Tullis has long been a legend in Atlanta sound. Now his website reflects that stature.
CNN Headline News bumper, part of the 1989 redesign.

Logo design for a satellite-delivered network from Barbados.
Good Morning America promo tag for ABC’s popular morning show.
WIS News (Columbia, SC) redesign that emphasized the call letters over the channel number.
Logo design for a company that consults on how to get bits from point a to point b.
WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.

WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
Bay News 9’s Breaking News animation, trying to get viewers’ attention without all the usual clichés.
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.
Not every archaeological site gets its own website, but when dozens of visitors ask the question “What’cha doing out there...”


25 years of designing, thinking, learning. Images copyright ©2009, jcbD. All rights reserved.