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.

  • Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.
    In a strong city built on the history of steel, WKBN and its sister stations now communicate with a clear new voice.
    Logo design for a satellite-delivered network from Barbados.
    Traffic maps don’t have to look like they’re coming from an Apple // computer, as this Capital News 9 map shows.
    Not every archaeological site gets its own website, but when dozens of visitors ask the question “What’cha doing out there...”
  • WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
    With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.
    News 24 Houston’s animated two box live, or double-box, or split box, or whatever you call it..
    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.
    Good Morning America promo tag for ABC’s popular morning show.
  • Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
    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.
    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.
    A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
  • Virtual set for Bay News 9 En Español, in Tampa/St. Petersburg.
    WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
    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.
    Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.
    KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.
  • A big ol’ poster for Georgia’s Archaeology Week celebration.
    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.
    When KOIN became KOIN Local 6, it was important that it was steeped deeply in all things Portland.
    A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.
  • Logo design for a company that consults on how to get bits from point a to point b.
    Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.
    Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.
    Bay News 9’s Breaking News animation, trying to get viewers’ attention without all the usual clichés.
    Weather on the Sevens component of the News 24 Houston opens.
  • Logo as part of a complete package for WAFF 48 Huntsville.
    Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
    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.
    The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.
    Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
  • WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
    Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
    WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.
    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.
    Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’