Laura Coutain-Walker +44 (0) 7734830162 laura_cw@hotmail.co.uk
Random. Occurrence. Conscious. Creation. Unforeseeable Design
The exploration of chance procedures through text and image manipulation. Various systems and rules have been set in place to produce an unforeseen outcome. Experimenting with text and the effect of screen printing and the idea of thing never being perfect or the same is a theme that continues though out the zines.
Random. Occurrence. Conscious. Creation. Unforeseeable. Design Frottage technique/ Oil pastel on stone. A piece of imagery inside zine 3 (Conscious)
Random. Occurrence. Conscious. Creation. Unforeseeable. Design
Allowing the concept of chance to take the forefront. This piece was created by soaking pieces of string in ink then dropping it from a height allowing marks to be made at random.
Random. Occurrence. Conscious. Creation. Unforeseeable. Design
Screen printed A2 poster using a quote from a questionnaire as a apart of a system to generate chance text’.
Random. Occurrence. Conscious. Creation. Unforeseeable. Design
Screen Printed Pinhole photography images. The handmade cardboard camera was positioned and left to capture, the developing process revealed a very dynamic and airy photograph, which i then used within my zine as an other medium to capture ‘chance’.
Random. Occurrence. Conscious. Creation. Unforeseeable. Design
Things go wrong and its alright: This pice sums up the concept of the series of zines as a whole. Not being restricted by the perfect idea of design and embracing the flaws.
Random. Occurrence. Conscious. Creation. Unforeseeable. Design
Photography of my Final Degree Piece at the University for the Creative Arts: Series of six zines, screen printed zines and perfect bound book.
Collage
Group piece based on identity. Simple illustration which were the collaged, placing each pice of a person with the other.
Illustrations
Simple biro pen drawing of a still life set up. This is very much my style of illustration and way of working, sketch are the foundation of my illustrations.
TYpography, Typography, typography... and some layouts.
From the questionnaire I developed for the ‘chance text’ for my zines I created this pieces based on the answer from graphic Designer and Tutor Brian Whitehead.
Ample Typeface
Ample type face was the first working type face that I had created. Developing it from sketches I was able to create a simplistic almost futuristic typeface. The concept that i was tying to capture the utopia for the future.
Who killed Walter Benjamin?
Brief: From the person you have selected at random tell their story. I choose Walter Benjamin a philosopher I Investigated his death as it was so mysterious and created a lot of controversy. I created an installation to represent my research and a billboard for the Tate Britain exhibiting the Walter Benjamin exhibition.
Pinhole Photography
Pinhole photography Images made from cardboard constructed camera
Penguin Design Award
Submission for the Penguin Design Award 2012 for the book ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ by Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
Ken Kesey
!A roar of protest against middlebrow society"s Rules and the Rulers who enforce them" Time
PENGUIN
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Fiction
Cover design
One Flew Over the Cuckoo!s Nest
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy!s heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey!s extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo!s Nest
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!An attack on all forms of authority and a celebration of the free spirit" Guardian NEW B FORMAT.indd 1
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