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 January, 2006

• Design for Sustainability

  Recently launched project: Grow: Design for Sustainability. Sustainability is a concept that is moving from the margins to the mainstream of business. Business has an imperative to grow and design is playing a central role in making sustainable growth not only possible, but preferable to the alternatives. Are you equipped to engage your clients with sustainable […]

  Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006 in Design | 2 Comments

• The Drones in NYC

  It just so happens that a band I’m listening to a lot right now is playing soon in NYC. Thur 9th Feb — Knitting Factory Fri 10th Feb — Fixed Sat 11th Feb — Southpaw Shark-Fin-Blues.mp3 Pitchfork (8.3) Official Web Site Buy CD from InSound (As usual, iTunes and eMusic don’t seem to have it.)

  Posted on Friday, January 27th, 2006 in Inspiration | Comment?

• What the government taketh away, the black market giveth back

  Potent Mexican Meth Floods In as States Curb Domestic Variety If this isn’t a perfect example of why prohibition doesn’t work I don’t know what is.

  Posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2006 in Experience | Comments Off

• King’s dream still a dream.

  Every Martin Luther King Jr day, whites all over the nation drag out King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech and pat themselves on the back about how far we’ve come as a just society. I suggest we try one of his other speeches for a change, “Where Do We Go From Here?”, from 1967: I want […]

  Posted on Monday, January 16th, 2006 in Experience | 1 Comment

• Where’s Adobe?

  Okay, so the MacBook Pro is just about everything I could have wished for. But the big question is: where’s Adobe? I worry sometimes that Apple takes it’s core user base—designers—for granted. Most designers could care less about Microsoft Office on the Mac. What we want to know is how fast is Creative Suite […]

  Posted on Thursday, January 12th, 2006 in Tools | Comment?

• Chickens, Cowboys & Glaucoma

  A few odds and ends: How did I miss this? SoFake continues their streak of oddly brilliant zoomy flash sites with Mail Order Chickens. While this is great viral marketing I can’t help wonder how much good it’s going to do the cause? “If two cowboys, male icons who are 100 percent all-man, can succumb, what chance […]

  Posted on Sunday, January 8th, 2006 in Design | Comment?