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.

Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
Bay News 9’s Breaking News animation, trying to get viewers’ attention without all the usual clichés.
WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.

Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
In a strong city built on the history of steel, WKBN and its sister stations now communicate with a clear new voice.
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.
Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’

WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
News 24 Houston’s Traffic Center open.
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.
WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.
Logo as part of a complete package for WAFF 48 Huntsville.

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.
WIS News (Columbia, SC) redesign that emphasized the call letters over the channel number.
A big ol’ poster for Georgia’s Archaeology Week celebration.
Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.
Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.

Good Morning America promo tag for ABC’s popular morning show.
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.
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.
Not every archaeological site gets its own website, but when dozens of visitors ask the question “What’cha doing out there...”
A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.

Scott Jones is an expert at lithics—stone tools. He'd prefer, however, to leave his web design to me.
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.
Logo design for a satellite-delivered network from Barbados.
News 24 Houston’s animated two box live, or double-box, or split box, or whatever you call it..

CNN Headline News bumper, part of the 1989 redesign.
’Ahead’ bumper for News 14 Carolina, twin 24 hour newschannels in Raleigh and Charlotte.
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.
Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.

KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8 is a mouthful, but the redesign was a success in reestablishing KGW’s dominance.
Virtual set for Bay News 9 En Español, in Tampa/St. Petersburg.
Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
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.


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