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 May, 2007

• Commute maps measured with Google Mapplet

  Is it just me, or does my commute to the office from the WTC Path station remind you of one of those Family Circus maps? But I’m pretty sure it’s the most direct route, measuring just under a mile. Oh yeah, I used the new Google Mapplets to measure the route. Here’s my bike ride […]

  Posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 in Experience, Fodder | Comments Off

• Barack Doodler

  There’s another reason to like Obama. Turns out he’s a fairly accomplished doodler.

  Posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 in Experience, Fodder | Comments Off

• Stefan Hattenbach’s Oxtail Typeface

  I love this new typeface, Oxtail, from Stefan Hattenbach and FontShop. It’s a very fresh take on the Egyptian/Clarendon style that has gotten a little overused in recent years. It’d be great for getting that Clarendon feel from small caps without looking like Starbucks, and you get those luscious italics too.

  Posted on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 in Design, Fodder | Comments Off

• Slow Communication

  Presenting Dawdler, and the World’s Slowest Instance Messager project. Slow is the new fast. Hell, even Twitter is slower than Chat.

  Posted on Saturday, May 26th, 2007 in Tools, Fodder | Comments Off

• New Programming Tool for Kids

  Scratch looks like a worth successor to Logo’s throne. As the proud owner of a new released human this is very exciting. Hopefully after she masters Scratch she can skip the yukky intermediate languges like BASIC and Pascal that I mucked about with and jump right into Ruby.

  Posted on Saturday, May 26th, 2007 in Experience, Fodder | Comments Off

• Chair Paintings

  There’s something strangely alluring about these paintings of chairs. Same thing that makes these bicycle portraits so interesting. It’s all about quantity I guess.

  Posted on Saturday, May 26th, 2007 in Inspiration, Fodder | Comments Off

• Pages are the problem

  Pages are the problem. Khoi Vinh vents the frustrations of web designers and information architects everywhere.

  Posted on Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 in Design, Fodder | Comments Off