Christopher Palazzo is a Designer, Art Director, Animator, Photographer and Illustrator working in New York city since 2006. His work has been featured across all mediums imaginable and for audiences all over the world. Beginning as a freelancer for Stardust Studios in 2006 he gained a reputation for his work on MTV's Ten Spots. Christopher quickly moved onto the top of the freelance lists of various studios in NYC including Transistor, Gretel, Digital Kitchen, Brand New School, and many others. He's been interviewed for Print Magazine on the subject of psychedelic resurgence in advertising and Adobe Systems on his process work.

His motion career is influenced by classic children's animations as well as the worlds of science fiction. In 2008 Christopher designed, directed and animated a jingle for the first season of Yo Gabba Gabba. In 2009 while at Brand New School he Art Directed a cross platform campaign directed by award winning filmmaker Errol Morris for agency Berlin Cameron, New York.

His artwork explores the mythic images of various cultures and shamanic rituals, mixing materials and methods in order to achieve the disconnect from reality that the psychedelic experience alone provides. Always reaching toward the absurd, his work aims to encourage the destruction of language and visual expectations as a way to realizing the meaninglessness in everything and maintaining a sense of humor all the while.

His whimsical images have been featured in The Word It Book, The 1,000 Journals Project, Space is the Place -Issue One and the MS Sans zine.

He's enjoyed writing for various blogs including Motionographer and one of the strangest outlets on the internet, Delicious Ghost, with artist and writer Cliff Kuang, writer James Gaddy and comic artist Zack Soto.

He currently works as an Art Director for the award winning design studio Brand New School in their New York office where he pushes the boundaries of advertising... ok not really but he tries.