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.

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.
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.
The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.
News 24 Houston’s Traffic Center open.
WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
Logo design for a company that consults on how to get bits from point a to point b.
Dynamic logo design for ESPN’s MotoWorld, bringing unneeded elegance to the world of motorcycle racing.
’Ahead’ bumper for News 14 Carolina, twin 24 hour newschannels in Raleigh and Charlotte.
A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
WGAL Channel 8 in Lancaster, PA commissioned this logo redesign, their first in more than 20 years.
News 24 Houston’s animated two box live, or double-box, or split box, or whatever you call it..
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.
Logo design for a satellite-delivered network from Barbados.
WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.
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!
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.
Virtual set for Bay News 9 En Español, in Tampa/St. Petersburg.
Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.
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.
Logo design as part of complete package for WSAV 3 Savannah.
With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.
Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’
Tampa/St. Petersburg’s Bay News 9, the first of many complete designs for Time Warner newschannel startups.
Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
WSTE Ponce San Juan became ‘superSiete’, and my logo design tried to reflect the island’s character.
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.
A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.
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.
Traffic maps don’t have to look like they’re coming from an Apple // computer, as this Capital News 9 map shows.
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 big ol’ poster for Georgia’s Archaeology Week celebration.
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.
Bill Tullis has long been a legend in Atlanta sound. Now his website reflects that stature.
Not every archaeological site gets its own website, but when dozens of visitors ask the question “What’cha doing out there...”
WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.

25 years of designing, thinking, learning. Images copyright ©2008, jcbD. All rights reserved.