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 October, 2005

• Information vs. Advertising Design

  The new NJ Transit train schedules, designed by TwoTwelve Associates, are finally being distributed. It’s a marked improvement if you ask me. When I was in school, my student chapter of AIGA went on a studio tour of some design firms. The first firm we went to was BIG, the in-house design department at Ogilvy, where […]

  Posted on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005 in Design | Comment?

• A successful error?

  At my job I recently implemented some simple code so users could RSVP for a free event we were putting on. After getting it up and running, I started noticing some duplicate email addresses, so I went about added a check to see if the email address being registered was already in our database. In my […]

  Posted on Saturday, October 8th, 2005 in Design | Comment?

• Nate Courdry?

  Ah! What’s up with the Daily Show correspondents? There’s been at least three new-comers in the last few days, and now here’s Rob’s little brother doing his best impression of his older sibling. This is really surreal.

  Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 in Experience | Comment?

• Wolf Parade

  Pitchfork is dead on. I mean, they had me at “Frog Eyes,” but the Arcade Fire/Modest Mouse connection does sound a little too much like an indie rock red giant about to implode into a black hole of hipster backlash. But, to paraphrase, don’t believe the anti-hype. This is a great album. Yes, it could be […]

  Posted on Tuesday, October 4th, 2005 in Inspiration | Comment?

• Woops. I broke my blog.

  Okay. I managed to royally screw up my Typo blog. Never update to the latest version via svn without checking to see if the latest version has a drastically different database schema. So I’m going to use Wordpress for a while. I still think Typo’s great, but it’s young and needs more time to mature […]

  Posted on Monday, October 3rd, 2005 in Tools | Comment?