Chris Johanesen is a graphic designer who specializes in creating clean, elegant, user-pleasing designs for information-rich websites & applications.

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Archive for September, 2005

• The unseen variable

  Kottke posted a blurb about a study finding that states, “In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.” This is a case of correlation, not causation, obviously, but the hidden […]

  Posted on Thursday, September 29th, 2005 in Experience | Comments Off

• Sufjan Stevens at TLA

  We saw Sufjan Stevens tonight at the TLA in Philly. The show was pretty much what I expected, but what I wasn’t expecting was the way he pronounced his name. I’ve always assumed it was “Suff-On,” but he definitely said “Soofy-on” which adds a whole syllable and is much more cumbersome. The TLA is a decent […]

  Posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 in Inspiration | Comments Off

• Tufte Prints

  Speaking of Tufte, I gotta get my hands on one of his prints.

  Posted on Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 in Design | Comments Off

• Sparklines

  Sweet. The development version of Typo (which I’m using) has built in sparklines features. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be working. Maybe Dreamhost needs to install the Sparklines Rubygem? Speaking of Sparklines, I just realized I missed Edward Tufte’s one day course “Presenting Data and Information.” It was only $320 and included all three of his […]

  Posted on Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 in Tools | Comments Off

• It’s the little things

  Like the way Alec Ounsworth sings “my own eyes” and then proceeds to sing “child stars” 30 times in a row. Speaking of CYHSY, as reported elsewhere, they recently turned down a request to do a song for the O.C. Now I like them even more. Here’s how some other bands answered the question. (And for […]

  Posted on Monday, September 26th, 2005 in Inspiration | Comments Off

• Coney Island

  The AIGANY Coney Island trip this weekend was boat-loads of fun. Check out the photo gallery. We saw lots of cool hand-drawn/lettered signs from Creative Time and the most amazing mural I’ve ever seen. Captain Bob was stupendous. If you ever get a chance to take his tours I wouldn’t pass it up. Someone needs to […]

  Posted on Sunday, September 25th, 2005 in Design | Comments Off