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.

WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.
Weather on the Sevens component of the News 24 Houston opens.
Bay News 9’s Breaking News animation, trying to get viewers’ attention without all the usual clichés.
Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.
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!

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.
Dynamic logo design for ESPN’s MotoWorld, bringing unneeded elegance to the world of motorcycle racing.
Logo design for a satellite-delivered network from Barbados.
Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.

A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.
Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
A big ol’ poster for Georgia’s Archaeology Week celebration.
Please judge this book design by its cover, and yes, the inside pages too.

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.
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 Traffic Center open.
WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
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.
CNN Headline News bumper, part of the 1989 redesign.
WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.

Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’
Logo design for a company that consults on how to get bits from point a to point b.
Traffic maps don’t have to look like they’re coming from an Apple // computer, as this Capital News 9 map shows.
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.
With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.

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.
When KOIN became KOIN Local 6, it was important that it was steeped deeply in all things Portland.
Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.
Good Morning America promo tag for ABC’s popular morning show.

WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
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.
KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.
Bill Tullis has long been a legend in Atlanta sound. Now his website reflects that stature.
Pro bono (that meant free) redesign of Atlanta’s PBS station. The Emmy and PBS awards we won were icing on the cake.


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