Skills:
Computer: Primary: Photoshop; Illustrator; Dreamweaver Secondary: Quark; Pagemaker;

Traditional: with or without computer enhancement - drawing, carbon dust, colored pencil, ink, watercolor, oil painting.

Experience/Education:
University of Georgia: Fine Arts, Music
California State University Long Beach: Design and art - emphasis in product design and development.
Coursework included extensive drawing and design courses, design methodology, marketing, physics, materials of industry studies and sculpture. While attending college, Laurel worked at a product design studio, and did freelance graphic design. She also spent 2 years competing with the Long Beach State crew team.

After college, Laurel worked doing historic building restoration in Portland Oregon for Architectural Reproductions Inc.. Skills utilized were materials research and development, sculpture, drawing, design, mold and model making, marketing, management, and client interaction. During this time Laurel also did freelance graphic design and continued studies in human anatomy and physiology, comparative vertebrate embryology, life drawing, and painting.

Laurel returned to graduate school at the University of California Santa Cruz to study Science Illustration. During this time she did illustrations for the Monterey Bay Aquarium. She completed an internship at Scientific American Magazine in New York City doing illustration and design. After receiving her Graduate certificate, she managed/produced children's educational multimedia software at Engineering Animation Inc. in Ames Iowa.

Laurel lives in Ramona California. As a freelance illustrator, designer, and a docent at the San Diego Museum of Natural History, she continues towards her goal to educate and excite people about science and the world around them.