The Studio

Half gallery, half laboratory. A look at the studio desk: finished commissions pinned to the wall, interactive prototypes currently in progress, flat files of sketches, and a few visual experiments kept for the archives.

STUDIO TUTORIALS

A collection of structural drafting theories, software foundations, and hybrid workflows from the studio desk.

Browse the Stacks

Selected Verses

Poems by Laura

At Kylemore Abbey

At kylmore abbey

The pigs and ponies

Round the heights

And claim the views

Of towering walls and

Carefully pruned gardens

A living memory

A proof of the past

Written in flesh

writing

Workshop Process

Video Documentation

Blueprint Animation Trailer

Playing with style.

animation

Planet Petroleum Jelly

Scientific illustration study

Digital Painting

gallery

The Cheeseburger Store

Brand identity design

Vector

gallery

Process is messy.

A peek inside the workshop.

The Aesthetic Switchboard

An exploration of style and taste

v1.1 // Formalist Schema

THE AESTHETIC SWITCHBOARD

An Exploratory Laboratory for Visual Style & Art Theory

The 18-Dimension Switchboard

Process / Execution

P1Process

DirectSynthesis

P2Intent

UnintentionalIntentional

P3Representation

LiteralSymbolic

P4Aesthetic

UglyBeauty

Goal / Vector

G1Response

ReflectionAction

G2Scale

IndividualPublic

G3Message

PersuasionDidactic

G4Motion

StasisKinesis

Subject Matter

S1Focus

InwardOutward

S2Driver

EmotionLogic

S3Domain

MindWorld

S4Scope

PrivatePublic

S5Context

Self-containedReferential

S6Method

DestructiveConstructive

S7Structure

ChaosOrder

S8Nature

TruthFalsehood

S9Source

ImitativeImaginative

S10Consistency

VariabilityUniformity

Neural Loop Score

100

🔥 High Stickiness

L = ((P2+S10)+(P3+S7)) / 2

Intentionality × Chaos

Closest Movement

Art Movement

Post-Impressionism

81% match

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Diagnostic / Construct

The Deep Puzzle

A 'stuck' image that forces the brain to reconcile opposing clues — highly intentional craft operating on top of unresolvable symbolic content.

Focus Area: High Stickiness. Stays with the viewer long after leaving the gallery.

The Aesthetic Switchboard · v1.1 · Formalist Schema · 30 Movements · 18 Dimensions

app

Roosevelt Room Cocktails

1 / 14 — Click to Flip

collection

“Better gray than garish.”

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Pinyin Trainer

Pronunciation tool

Pīnyīn Trainer

Master Mandarin pronunciation — initials, finals, tones, and rules

Initial

zh

"j" in "judge" — tongue curled back

click to reveal

1 / 35

app

Creative Friction Map

Process visualization

Diagram

concept

Thanksgiving Parade

Sketched in the rain on 73rd & CPW

Live Drawing

sketch

PEWI: Watershed Integration

Asset illustration & UI for ISU's ecological simulator.

PEWI Simulator

USDA • Iowa State University

PEWI (People in Ecosystems/Watershed Integration) is a web-based educational game designed to help users understand the environmental consequences of agricultural and conservation practices.

While the underlying code, interface layout, and ecological modeling were engineered by Iowa State University's NREM program, Laura was commissioned to create the game's visual components. Her work focused entirely on illustrating the environmental backgrounds, custom iconography, and the interactive isometric land-use tiles, bringing a cohesive, tactile feel to the digital ecosystem.

Launch Simulator ↗

app

Mixtape's Eternal Purr

In loving memory of Mixtape, we donated $1 of each 2026 Cats Calendar sale to helping cats in need

Mixtape's Eternal Purr

Sounds in loving memory

app

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Survival Chinese

Mandarin ordering simulator

Survival Chinese

Restaurant Mode

面 (Noodles)

牛肉面

面 (Noodles)

鸡肉面

面 (Noodles)

炒面

面 (Noodles)

汤面

饭 (Rice)

白饭

饭 (Rice)

蛋炒饭

饭 (Rice)

海鲜炒饭

炒菜 (Stir-Fries)

炒青菜

炒菜 (Stir-Fries)

麻婆豆腐

炒菜 (Stir-Fries)

宫保鸡丁

汤 (Soups)

酸辣汤

饮料 (Drinks)

冰水

饮料 (Drinks)

啤酒

app

Tahoma Collections

gallery

Feeding Mechanisms of the Medicinal Leech

Scientific illustration

Biological study

gallery

Orphaned Artifacts.

Completed experiments from the cutting room floor.

Shop Artifacts

Collections and Curiosities

collection

Daily Self-Portraits

5-minute ink daily for a month

Ink on Paper

sketch

T.S. Eliot

“But there is no competition. There is only the fight to recover what has been lost and found and lost once again... and now under conditions that seem unpropitious.”