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.

  • WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
    A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
    Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
    Virtual set for Bay News 9 En Español, in Tampa/St. Petersburg.
    KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.
  • CNN Headline News bumper, part of the 1989 redesign.
    Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.
    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.
    Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
    Scott Jones is an expert at lithics—stone tools. He'd prefer, however, to leave his web design to me.
  • Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
    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.
    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.
    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.
  • With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.
    Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.
    WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
    Pro bono (that meant free) redesign of Atlanta’s PBS station. The Emmy and PBS awards we won were icing on the cake.
    Bay News 9’s Breaking News animation, trying to get viewers’ attention without all the usual clichés.
  • 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.
    WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
    News 24 Houston’s Traffic Center open.
    Not every archaeological site gets its own website, but when dozens of visitors ask the question “What’cha doing out there...”
  • 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.
    WIS News (Columbia, SC) redesign that emphasized the call letters over the channel number.
    Weather on the Sevens component of the News 24 Houston opens.
    Dynamic logo design for ESPN’s MotoWorld, bringing unneeded elegance to the world of motorcycle racing.
    Please judge this book design by its cover, and yes, the inside pages too.
  • ’Ahead’ bumper for News 14 Carolina, twin 24 hour newschannels in Raleigh and Charlotte.
    Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’
    A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.
    Good Morning America promo tag for ABC’s popular morning show.
    Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
  • WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
    The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.
    Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.
    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!
    WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.