Chris Johanesen is a graphic designer who specializes in creating clean, elegant, user-pleasing designs for information-rich websites & applications.

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• Hillarious.

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• X & Y, an exhibition at SVA of sculpture and paintings that use the grid as the primary structural element.

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• AIGA New York’s new site looks great. You can definitely see Khoi Vinh’s influence.

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• Typographica’s Favorite Fonts of 2006

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  Posted on July 8th, 2007 in Design, Process

• Creative Review sets out to document a month in the life of a graphic designer

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• Armin posts 100 of his rejected logos.

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• Indie Rock meets Infographics. This stuff is brilliant.

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• Kottke’s got tags!

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• Marian Bantjes on the London Olympic logo, from the SpeakUp discussion (in the comments…no permalinks…scroll down):

  I really don’t think legibility matters here…With something as heavily promoted as the Olympics, in all honesty anything would work. You throw it at people long enough and hard enough and they’ll recognize it and even buy the t-shirts, no matter what it looks like. The interesting part of this as an identity is how they’ll be able to play with those shapes, and after 5 years probably any irregular triangular multicoloured graphic in London will come to signify the Olympics.

  I have to say when I first saw this logo I thought…. WTF?!??!… but after reading Armin and Marian’s thoughts I’m convinced it’s a great system. Like Armin, I still don’t love the logo, but at least it’s not boring.

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