Michael Buchino

creative director, graphic designer, illustrator, animator, educator, letterer, et ceterer…

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Event poster art (The Porcupine, 2025–present)

Poster art for film festivals, plays and music gigs at The Porcupine theater.

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The Bugs in My Beard short film (2026)

Inspired by true events.

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Illustration features (Illustoria, 2019–2025)

An illustrated vocabulary feature subsumed within the folios of Illustoria, born from Lexigraphique, a diurnal account for limning morphemes and the sporadic spelunking of etymon.

Illustoria № 9: Food

Illustoria № 10: Color

Illustoria № 11: Creatures

Illustoria № 12: Upcycle

Illustoria № 13: Maps

Illustoria № 14: Myth

Illustoria № 17: Senses

Illustoria № 27: Bugs

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“Being” music video (My Little Edgar Allan Pony, 2024)

Music video for My Little Edgar Allan Pony.

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Il Murale del Bagno (2023)

Bathroom mural art.

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30th Anniversary commercial video (Pizza Schmizza, 2023)

Celebrating 30 years of Schmizza.

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Wrongful Conviction Explained video (The Innocence Network, 2022)

Explainer video for The Innocence Network.

How many people are wrongfully convicted in the United States, and why?

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Why 350 ppm? video (Our Children’s Trust, 2022)

Explainer video for Our Children’s Trust.

Heating is the symptom; increased concentrations of greenhouse gases is the cause. Policy needs to be tied to variables we can control—the amount of carbon in the air (350 parts per million), not degrees of temperature (1.5°C, 2°C, etc.).

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Drinkware illustration (World Coffee Research, 2022)

Illustration for MiiR × World Coffee Research’s sustainable drinking vessels.

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Lexigraphique (2019–2021ish)

A diurnal account for limning morphemes (2019) and the sporadic spelunking of etymon.

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3 COVID-19 Measures We Need to Keep Around to Tackle Neglected Tropical Diseases video (Global Citizen, 2021)

Explainer video art direction and illustration for Global Citizen.

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of parasitic and bacterial diseases that affect more than 1 billion people and that have severe side effects. Many of them can easily be prevented or treated with the right funding and care, but they are so often forgotten. COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on health care systems worldwide, but it’s also led to health interventions that can be applied to prevent future health crises, including outbreaks of NTDs.

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Herd Immunity video (Global Citizen, 2020)

Explainer video for Global Citizen.

Herd immunity protects a population from a virus, and is best achieved through vaccination. Here’s how it works.

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Hold Still, Lion album art (Cake to Age, 2020)

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Boring Ghost short film (Sam Miller, 2020)

A cel animation about afterlife, written and narrated by Sam Miller.

Featured in Kyiv International Short Film Festival 10 (2020), Portland Comedy Film Festival (2022), Pictoplasma Berlin (2024), Pictoplasma New York (2024) and Cardiff Animation Nights (October 2024).

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USPS postcards (2020)

A collaborative love letter to the United States Postal Service—four pre-stamped, USPS-themed letterpress postcards.

Made in partnership with pals Kyle Durrie, BT Livermore and Julia McNamara.

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Chinook Book (Celilo Group Media, 2017–2020)

Annual coupon book cover (2019–2020) and gift card (2017–2020) design and illustration.

Made in partnership with Julia McNamara.

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6 Questions You Might Have About Neglected Tropical Diseases video (Global Citizen, 2020)

Explainer video art direction and illustration for Global Citizen.

In addition to diseases of poverty like cholera or malaria, there are others that are much less well known, but just as menacing — neglected tropical disease (NTDs). Watch the video to find out more about these diseases that affect more than 1 billion people worldwide.