Laimė Lukošiūnaitė

Lithuanian graphic designer based in London, making publications, type-driven visuals, lettering and illustration. With a practice based around tactile typographic experimentation as a tool for ideation, Laimė queries varied mediums and printing techniques, from „dirty-lockups” within letterpress and bitmap-driven screen printing. The practice sifts between experimental and generative type systems, often utilising matrix grid systems as modular shape generation methods. With interests in mark-making in writing, learnings from different historical periods of early letter formations, drive the practice.

At Kintai Arts residency, Laimė sets off on letter quests, foraging writing tools from nearby abandoned dwellings, forests and swamps. Concerned with walking as a means for thinking and making, the project engages a practicing travelling scribe conjuring up letterforms collected from varied traces of the surrounding expanse of nature. The intricate architectural heritage and the profoundly diverse local peoples history guides the project, seeping forms of local folk vernacular. The letterforms are a mash-up of observed and discarded objects from weeds to chopped wood, tangly fences, jolting roofs, wells, shrubbery, carts and architecture. They bow to local ancestry of curonian baltic tribes and swampland people that inhabitted the surrounding flooded meadows.

↣ tools:

☼ sorrel
☼ sow thistles
☼ black alder
☼ birch branch
☼ reed stick
☼ oak branch
☼ broken crockery
☼ seaweed
☼ smoothed rocks
☼ tree bark

▶ Kintai Arts residency programme for individual projects