Christopher Previte
Christopher Previte is an artist, graphic designer, writer, and photographer who has enjoyed working creatively for over thirty years. In that time, he has created content and solutions in the areas of Illustration; Identity & Branding; Print & Web Design; Photography; and Event Media for such clients as Boston’s World Trade Center & Seaport Hotel; Fidelity Investments; The Harvard Lampoon; Nancy Kerrigan; Elton John & Stevie Wonder; Sail Boston; Wilson Farm; and numerous small businesses. His current practice explores themes of loss, responsibility, and impermanence through storytelling. He believes that art and design should be adaptable and nimble and that the best solutions are platform agnostic.
Christopher earned his BFA in Illustration from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and his MFA in Graphic Design from the Vermont College of Fine Arts.
He, along with his incredible wife, amazing daughter, and two fuzzy dogs live just north of Boston and enjoy traveling to new places, relaxing with family and friends, and cooking oodles of yummy food. He is a monster comic book geek and listens to an eclectic variety of music. Christopher also plays a pretty bad harmonica.
On makeshift wooden tables lined with cardboard boxes were hundreds of comic books. Their covers had been removed and I had many moments alone with them as my mother gathered her haul of cigarettes. It was 1983.
When I talk to that kid, I find he is so many things that define me equally. I have been a draftsman, a model builder, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a photographer, a copywriter, and an educator. They were not adjuncts to who I am – they are essential. More recently, I became a storyteller and a comic book creator. A raconteur and an artist. Yeah, comic books.
Today, my goal as an art and design educator is a refined focus on those subjects and concepts I am most passionate about, and where I have the most to offer students. These include narrative design and image creation, user experience and human-centered design, conceptualization and ideation, platform agnostic and modular design solutions, and nimbleness in visual problem solving. I am also very interested in the designer’s role as storyteller and how creativity speaks to the human condition. I look forward to sharing this journey with my students for many years to come.