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 of Experience Entries

• The C-Word

  Christopher Fahey has a great series of posts (and dicussions) on class and design. Class is one of those things that no one (even most liberals) wants to talk about. Especially when it relates to one’s profession.

  Posted on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006 in Design, Experience | Comments Off

• Degrading women isn’t just for selling clothes any more.

  Now it’s also for making political statements while selling clothes. Via Kottke

  Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 in Experience | Comments Off

• Peters Perspective

  One of the most important things I want my child to learn is perspective. Showing her that there are different ways to view the world and—even more importantly—that she is not the center of it is a great way to foster a healthy world-view. Sticking a map on the wall is a simple and effective way […]

  Posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 in Experience | Comments Off

• Greatest design project ever

  Posted on Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 in Experience | Comments Off

• 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

• Strike!

  It’s sickening how the MTA, the Mayor, and the Governor are trying to pit New Yorkers against the transit workers, and how many New Yorkers are falling for it—at least as reported by mainstream media outlets like in this horribly biased AP article. I keep reading interviews with New Yorkers saying how the transit workers have […]

  Posted on Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 in Experience | 4 Comments

• There is no god

  Wow. The most concise, profound thing I’ve read about religion, and from Penn Jillette no less. He sums up my thoughts perfectly. “Believing there is no God means the suffering I’ve seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn’t caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn’t bothered to help […]

  Posted on Thursday, December 8th, 2005 in Experience | Comments Off

• Random stuff

  Rick Valicenti is speaking this Wednesday, and you don’t want to miss it. No you don’t. Speaking of things you don’t want to miss, AIGA NY Holiday Sale is this Sunday. It’s time to start your holiday shopping. Boxes-and-Arrows is giving some editorial control to it’s users. Sounds like a great idea to me. Pitchfork has long interview […]

  Posted on Monday, December 5th, 2005 in Design, Inspiration, Experience | Comments Off

• For immediate release

  It comes as no surprise that CyberMonday was thought up by the online retail industry. After all, people have been using advertising to manipulate, capitalize on, and sometimes completely construct cultural phenomenon so they can sell us more crap. (The diamond engagement ring is probably one of the most widespread examples.) What depresses me […]

  Posted on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005 in Experience | Comments Off

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