CHLOE M. COOKE
chloemcooke02@gmail.com1. Sonder
Spring 2024
Sonder is a collaborative book project between the seventeen students within the Appalachian States Book Arts Class from Spring 2024. We all visited the Nature Preserve on campus and decided to study the site to produce our book. After we all had time to sit and connect with the preserve we concluded that a complex life existed in the space. We felt sonder about the site. Throughout this project, I worked with the design team to create the book page compositions, layouts, and ideation of three variations. During the first stage of ideation, I contributed imagery. I helped develop the concepts behind the page cutouts and how we clarified the book's narrative to our audience. Toward the end of the project, I did the last pass through the book before it got sent to print.
2. Appalachia Technical School
Spring 2024
Appalachia Technical School’s goal is to provide free education to those getting released from prison in Appalachia. The brand was developed to help Appalachian folk break the generational trauma that has existed for hundreds of years. This brand's voice was made to be professional and educational while appealing to folks getting out of prison. I want this brand to appeal to folks who may not have continued their education after K-12 classes. I created a logo and promotional material that uses traditional educational typefaces paired with colors and imagery that relate to the Appalachian region.
3. Embracing Entanglement No. 2
Fall 2023 Embracing Entanglement is an ongoing book-based study about the community mycelium has created. Mold, fungus, and mushrooms cannot exist without mycelium. Mycelium are thin strands that run underground to create systems of communication for these different species. Mycelium connects the species and creates a community of organisms that work together to keep their communities thriving. Much like mold, people often find comfort in communities because people need people to survive. Mold needs mold to survive.
4. 055
Summer 2024
This August, the city of Florence decided they wanted to expand their current cultural initiative Estate Fiorentina to include local food producers and artisans. Their festival invites tourists and Florentine citizens to come out and enjoy locally produced food and have a refreshing walk in Cascine Park at night during the hottest days of August. I named the event 055 because this is the area code for Florence, Italy. Numbers transcend most languages. This name and the logo was made to appeal to locals and tourists because of its easy recognizability. The color family and imagery was chosen to represent Italian culture. Most of the colors were colors I found repeating throughout Florence. The typeface was influenced by the letterpress because of Florence’s long history of the letterpress. The structures and iconography featured with the logo are pulled from the architecture that exists in Cascine Park.
5. Cultivating Practices
Spring 2024
I created this publication to study Bauhaus, Postmodern, and Speculative design principles. All the essays and talks featured throughout this book correlate with the style they are typeset in.
6. In Bloom
Spring 2024
In Bloom was a branding project that created the identity of the Spring 2024 senior design show at Appalachian State University. We devised a design system that assigned each member of the show a flower that is significant to them. Together, the flowers came together to create a diverse bouquet. During this project, I helped the design team during reviews of the brand's development. After the brand's identity was developed I helped my team install the vinyl imagery and pamphlets throughout the gallery.
7. Internal Landscapes
Spring 2024
When I leave a place I often feel new and like I am able to break away from the thoughts that were trapped in my old landscapes. This book displays images from many important places in my life. Writing that pairs with the images speaks to my reflections and old ideas attached to old locations. I grew up in some of the oldest land masses on Earth. My old selves are as tied to the land and much as my current self. This book captures how deeply knotted all versions of myself are to the lands I have lived and grown in.
8. Endangered Appalachia
Endangered Appalachia
All of the book forms are connected by a found poem about evolution and the species adapting to changes in their environments. This is a Riso printed series exploring how book forms can portray different storytelling methods while bringing awareness to endangered species in Appalachia. Their book forms are based on the species' physical characteristics and how they interact with their ecosystems.