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 November, 2006

• Designer Gift Wrap

  The New York Chapter of the AIGA is having their annual holiday party/fund raising auction this Sunday at Pentigram. On sale will be some really nice wrapping papers, including this great typographic one from Jason Santa Maria. Check out the rest of the designs in their gallery. Speaking of wrapping papers, Design*Sponge also linked to some […]

  Posted on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 in Design | Comments Off

• Paula Sheer’s Publikum Calendar

  Amazing calendar from Paula Scher/Pentagram. This is the first wall calendar I’ve actually wanted to own in a long, long time.

  Posted on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 in Design, Fodder | Comments Off

• The Boys

  Posted on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 in Experience | Comments Off

• Early Computer Art

  Some of this Early Computer Art looks amazingly similar to another early technology’s experiments: Rayographs.

  Posted on Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 in Inspiration, Fodder | Comments Off

• Design Magazine Available Online

  Nine years of Design magazine, scanned in it’s entirety, now available online for free.

  Posted on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 in Design, Fodder | Comments Off

• Safari is better than Firefox

  Yes. Zeldman writes about Firefox’s terrible text/font handling on the mac. I feel like I’m constantly trying to explain this to people. Firefox is so well known now as the superior browser on the Windows platform that many ill-informed mac users assume it’s the same in OS X. No way. Zeldman doesn’t even get into […]

  Posted on Monday, November 27th, 2006 in Tools | Comments Off

• Hill-Oh-ry + Oh-Bama = Oh-Eight

  Although I consider myself left of Hillary Clinton, I think her presidency would be one of the best things that could happen to America. For one, it would be monumental to have a woman president. And what’s more, most of her staff consists of women. She wouldn’t be a puppet of the male political establishment […]

  Posted on Saturday, November 18th, 2006 in Experience | Comments Off

• 100% More Launched

  BuzzFeed, a place for trends. Don’t forget to add the [sweet] badge to your blog:

  Posted on Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 in Design, Work | 1 Comment

• It’s very simple really.

  When information design goes bad.

  Posted on Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 in Design | Comments Off