Oh hi! I’m an illustrator, graphic designer and occasional writer.
I’ve worked with lots of cool people at a bunch of neat places including The Criterion Collection, The New Yorker, Pentagram, Apple, Google, Disney, Penguin, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, McSweeney’s, Penguin Books, The New York Times and Vanity Fair.
I’ve had the pleasure of illustrating several children’s books, including Elizabeth Partridge’s Seen and Unseen (Chronicle), which won The Sibert Medal from the American Library Association.
My most recent picture book A Pond, A Poem and Three Pests is out Oct 2025 through Groundwood Books!
For commercial inquires, email hello@laurentamaki.com
For literary inquiries, email jsalky@salkylitmgmt.com (Charlotte Sheedy Lit Agency / Salky Literary Management)
Check me out on Instagram (woo) @laurentamaki
BRAGGING!
2023 Robert F. Sibert Medal for Seen and Unseen
The BolognaRagazzi Award for 2023
Special Category of PHOTOGRAPHY for Seen and Unseen
SPD 60 Judge
Chair for Society of Illustrators 62
Panelist at Talking Pictures: The Visual Book Now Symposium
Gold Medal / The 2018 National Magazine Awards
Society of Illustrators 64, 60, 59
American Illustration 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 32, 31
Silver Medal / The 32nd Society for News Design Competition
INTERVIEWS
The Children’s Book Podcast
Los Angeles Public Library Video Interview
The Horn Book Interview with Elizabeth Partridge
First Generation Burden
Domestika Creatives (Video)
Girls Club Asia
Penguin Teen Canada
Video Interviews + Paint with One More Thing
Soft Focus
CBC
National Magazine Awards
Mundo Mendo
Refinery29
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