Professional experience in fields of illustration, graphic design and animation; Teaching experience in art/illustration/marketing; Management of creative personnel in a corporate environment
Principal, graphic design/illustration consultant, owner of LAURENT Design + Illustration; Illustrator– Award-winning editorial and advertising illustration, Illustrator for national publications, including: American Bar Association Journal, American Society for Personnel Administration, Ball Publishing, Barrister Magazine, The Brief Magazine, Borg Warner Corporation, Bank Marketing Magazine, The Bowne Company, Britannica Books, Burson-Marstellar Advertising, Business Law Today Magazine, Campbell - Ewald Advertising, Chicago Magazine, The Chicago Reader Newspaper, Childcraft Books, ComEd, Criminal Justice Magazine, Entertainment & Sports Lawyer, Ernst & Young, LLP, Equip for Equality, Inc., Experience Magazine, Family Advocate Magazine, The Field Museum of Natural History, Fortune Magazine, Gerhardt & Clemons, Inc., Governing Magazine, Hill & Knowlton, Infant Welfare, Interface Design, Judges' Journal, Judicature Magazine, The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Library Journal, The Louvre Museum, Marketing Management Magazine, National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse, Outside Magazine, Rand-McNally, Riverside Press, Roosevelt University, School Zone Publishing, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Star-Toons Animation Studio, Student Lawyer Magazine, University of Chicago Press, USG Corp., The Utne Reader, Washington Post Newspaper, VHA Vision Magazine, Weeks Design, World Book Encyclopaedia.
Editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times Newspaper; Responsibilities included drawing a daily editorial cartoon for the WE THINK editorial page
Editorial illustrator for the Chicago Reader; national magazines
Design consultant, Laurent Design + Illustration
Oil Painters of America National Juried Exhibitions
Paperboard Packaging Council, Gold Medal
Spectrum: The Best of Contemporary Fantastic Art
Museum of Contemporary Masters: 50 Best Oil Painters
Chicago Film Festival, Silver Plaque for Animation
The Best American Drawing: Jilin Publishing
Society of Publication Designers: Magazine Illustration Awards
2018 Teacher of the Year, Illustration Program, Columbia College-Chicago
National Cartoonist Society; Oil Painters of America; College Art Association; Chicago/Midwest Chapter: Cartoonists Anonymous; Plein Air Painters of Chicago