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.

Seven day forecast page for News 24 Houston, pushing the limits of how much weather data can be crammed on one page.
Scott Jones is an expert at lithics—stone tools. He'd prefer, however, to leave his web design to me.
Body & Health host Samantha Shatzky on a set that isn’t there.
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.

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.
WYFF 4 Greenville is (or was) Carolina’s News Channel. We tried to make that point elegantly.
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.
Traffic maps don’t have to look like they’re coming from an Apple // computer, as this Capital News 9 map shows.

WFSB 3 Hartford’s Eyewitness News redesign, the second channel I designed after leaving TBS.
Eights are my specialty! part of a complete redesign of KCCI Des Moines.
Dynamic logo design for ESPN’s MotoWorld, bringing unneeded elegance to the world of motorcycle racing.
The freeway-sign-inspired menu for Atlanta’s American Roadhouse. Mmm...good burgers.
News 24 Houston’s Traffic Center open.

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!
Pro bono (that meant free) redesign of Atlanta’s PBS station. The Emmy and PBS awards we won were icing on the cake.
Logo design for a satellite-delivered network from Barbados.
WTMJ 4 Milwaukee became ‘Today’s TMJ 4’ in a logo that has stood the test of time.
WIS News (Columbia, SC) redesign that emphasized the call letters over the channel number.

With "one-man-band" crews out on the streets of D.C., PushPause tries to capture the hyperlocal heart of the district.
A series of factsheets on Atlanta’s diverse population, created for Georgia State University.
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.
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.
A big ol’ poster for Georgia’s Archaeology Week celebration.

Design for a 24 hour Traffic and Weather channel in the UK, Belgium, and Germany for WeatherPlus.
Bill Balleza ID for KPRC 2 Houston, part of my long-lived (but alas, departed) KPRC design.
Please judge this book design by its cover, and yes, the inside pages too.
News 24 Houston’s animated two box live, or double-box, or split box, or whatever you call it..
’Ahead’ bumper for News 14 Carolina, twin 24 hour newschannels in Raleigh and Charlotte.

Design for Capital News 9’s live trucks. Considered ‘not flashy enough’ by the promotion director.
A frame from the News 8 Austin open. Boy, that logo is as big as all of Texas.
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.
Compact disc design for blues piano player Bob Page, ‘Poor Man Shuffle.’

Bill Tullis has long been a legend in Atlanta sound. Now his website reflects that stature.
Virtual set for Bay News 9 En Español, in Tampa/St. Petersburg.
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.
WXIA wasted no time in tying its identity to the Atlanta Olympics, and this ID links the two together.
Logo design for a company that consults on how to get bits from point a to point b.


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