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Michael Lauritano
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Hey everyone. It's been a long year at grad school, but a good one. I have a lot of new work. Some semblance of a new style, or more personal sensibility might just be asserting itself. And you can see it all on my freshly remade website! www.mlauritano.com. Check it out! Raise your hand if you actually even care about me updating here (...!...?). Cheers, all.

-M
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As of writing this, I'm only $65 away from my stretch goal of $5,000! If you appreciated the project at all, now is the time to throw $5 my way and get a cute letterpress notecard. Or more, if you're that into it!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/5…

Hopefully, I won't be posting as much dry, black and white work for a while. In fact, I have a couple lush poster designs, I'll put up soon. Thanks for watching, everyone.

-M
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Hi strangers and friends of the internet,

It's been over a year since I've taken the time to write one of these things, but A LOT has happened. I went through a pretty lousy breakup, left the lovely city of Chicago and my amazing job there, and moved back to the east coast. I applied to graduate school at the School of Visual Arts, for their awesome Illustration as Visual Essay MFA program and got in (!). I started to learn about graphic design taking continuing ed. classes at Massart. And I'm moving to Queens in a month.

My current creative project is The Domestic Menagerie. It is a collection of illustrated works on paper that combines animals and vintage household ephemera. You can receive these drawings in the form of letterpress notecards, screen-printed posters, or commission an actual drawing yourself! CHECK IT OUT!!!


I'm going to try and do a better job of keeping this profile up-to-date and show as many beautiful things made at SVA as I can. It's just been a weird year for me. Thanks for caring that I still exist, if you actually do, you mysterious, arty, online spirits.

-M
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Hey All,

So, I've just posted up some of the efforts from my first published kid's book work, Snowmobile. If you enjoy riding snowmobiles or know a young feller who does that also happens to be learning to read, you might want to buy this book on Amazon. The experience of making the illustrations was far from perfect, but I'm happy to have my foot (or at least one crushed toe) in the door of the publishing world.

Yes, it's been a bajillion years since my last post. This is primarily because I got an awesome day job in Chicago. I'm now Jay Ryan's official, solo printer and assistant at a shop called The Bird Machine. Jay is kind of famous in gig poster making circles, so this job continues to be a great opportunity to meet awesome artists and musicians. If you don't know of him, go to www.thebirdmachine.com/ to check out his weird sense of humor, cute animals, and his consistently clear stylistic voice and handmade design aesthetic. We/I print posters with many layers and often in relatively large editions, so it's been a little exhausting and it's definitely cut into my efforts to produce more personal work... that plus getting in the habit of streaming way too much Star Trek and other such geekery on the internet.

But I'm recommitting myself to it all, working on getting a blog started (it's gonna be goooood, I think), dabbling with an L.A. based buddy on a collaborative project, and even thinking about an etsy store for screen prints and any other quirky objects that my imagination spits out. Sleep is for the weak, right?

To start with, I made a Facebook page a little while ago. As lazy as it might sound, it really is easier to connect to people from there and it feels less laborious trying to be all social and promote-y than here. So if you like my work and sensibilities, please 'like' my page on Facebook, and get a slightly closer peek into my little world. Thanks. Every little 'like' counts!

www.facebook.com/pages/M-Lauri…

If this is offensive to you, my only advice is to go fight Mark Zuckerberg to the death, then travel the world from one residence to the next, stealing computers of any kind, locking them in impenetrable safes that you eventually drop into the Mariana Trench, into which you would drop an atomic bomb once your task was complete, finally steering the whole planet into a black hole. Cheers, supervillans!

-M
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Hey All,

Currently hard at work revising illustrations for the 'Snowmobile!' kids book I was hired for. Discerning eyes, these editors and Bombardier Museum folk have... That's all I'll say about that!

On a brighter note, for those with the mildest of yearnings to see more M. Lauritano traditional work, I've got just the thing! Over Christmas I frantically wrangled up some of the paintings I gave as gifts to my immediate family and scanned them for archival purposes and to share here. Same materials as usual with somewhat looser handling. There are more of these gifted paintings out there than I can remember... The Devil's Punchbowl, The Narrows of Zion Nat'l Park, a mother-daughter gardening scene, My Neighbor Totoro fan art, a set of Fjords in two different seasons, a sheepish cloudscape, and lots of little hints of Italy.. to name a few! The fact that I'm usually in too much of a rush to scan half of them is just sad. Anyhow, enjoy them (if you can/want to)!

Thanks for stopping by!

-M
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