Toward a
(Design)
Practice
Christopher Branson is a cross-disciplinary creative director, designer and artist with over 15 years of hands-on working experience.
He has helped to produce + lead design projects for brands, artists and galleries in an open practice, working simultaneously between client-based and self-initiated work.
Working through environmental, print and digital media, with an emphasis in conceptual thinking. He creates advertising campaigns, applications, art direction, bespoke type design, book/editorial design, brand identity systems, copywriting, iconography, illustration, photography, prop styling, social media direction, storyboarding for animation and commercials, and websites.
On (Building)
Prior to working as a designer Christopher was a carpenter. He comes from a multi-generational family of builders and craftsmen. He maintains a practice of self design and building, in furniture, art and bespoke prop styling. His approach is led by strong typographic inquiry and communication. The studio is currently based in Mid-Missouri.
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As a practicing artist and curator Christopher has produced artwork for shows and art fairs across the United States, Europe and China.
Creating projects that combine shape, form, light and language through painting, sculpture, collage, illustration, furniture, installation, photography, publishing, writing and various formats of ephemera.
His practice involves intuition of process; moving between figuration, abstraction and conceptual efforts simultaneously.
Christopher initiates idea driven work through process and concept.
As Robert Rauchenburg has said, I am following the process and the process is following me. We are each bewildering eachother.
Eric Carle
Paris Hilton
Mattel
East West (STL)
Who Modern
Disney
Walmart
Monica + Andy
Lagomorph Design
Zak Rose Studio
Wright Auction House
Rago Arts
LA Modern Auctions (LAMA)
Tovala
Dock 6 Collective
Roomy
Bolabit
Uptake
Keith Haring
Yayoi Kusama
WNDR Museum
Chicago Ideas Week
Brad Keywell
Bluecrew
OTHER Studio
Cresco Labs
Creative Circle
ONE HALF IN (Bookstore)
Interior Define
Jason Wu
Epsilon
Conversant Media
FIA (Federation of Internet Alerts)
Discover Card
Coca-Cola
Sprite
KFC
Dow Chemical
Sharpie
Aramark
Valspar Paint
MilkPep
Paper Mate
Jack Daniel’s
Herradura
el Jimador
Kohl Children's Museum
Work/Play (Danielle and Kevin Mccoy)
Mwanzi
Demond Meek
Optiks Studio
Voltron (TV Series)
Atomicdust
Open/Closed
Colfax Community Network
Invisible Museum
NY Art Book Fair- Printed Matter (New York, New York), 2023, 2019, 2018
Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair, 2021
Vancouver’s Virtual Art Book Fair, 2020
Los Angeles Art Book Fair- Printed Matter (Los Angeles, CA), 2020, 2019, 2018
Dock 6 Collective- Art & Design #13 (Chicago, IL), 2020
Dock 6 Collective- Art & Design #12 (Chicago, IL), 2019
Chicago Art Book Fair- (Chicago, IL), 2019
Vancouver Art Book Fair (Vancouver, Canada), 2018
UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair (Shanghai, China), 2018, 2020
Print & Resist (Madison, WI), 2018
Independent Art Book Fair (Los Angeles, CA), 2018
Fully Booked Art Book Fair (Dubai, United Arab Emirates), 2018
Potential Spectrums at Pick Me Up Cafe (Chicago, IL), 2016
Neue Form (St. Louis, MO) - Co-curated with WORK/PLAY, 2014
These Are Not My Problems (Chicago, IL), 2014
Beyond The Infinite (Chicago, IL), 2013
CHI Design Museum’s Re/View (Chicago, IL), 2013
Typeforce 5 (Chicago, IL), 2013
ARTCRANK (St. Louis, MO), 2011
Bordo Bello (Denver, CO), 2011
VIPink (St. Louis, MO), 2011
ARTCRANK (Denver, CO), 2010
Toe Fluff (Swindon, UK), 2010
Yes Please More (Denver, CO), 2010
Art Director’s Club (Denver, CO), 2010
