The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.The Laurel's training travels with the people who pass through it. Recruits, instructors and former trainees carry its habits and loyalties into different lives, each with a different understanding of what belonging means.
Recruits, instructors and former trainees carry different experiences of the Black Laurel. Its training shapes their habits, loyalties and understanding of what the institution expects from them. Those influences continue into the lives that follow, but a shared background does not give everyone the same values or the same sense of belonging. The people formed by the Laurel bring different judgments to the obligations that connect them.
The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.
Ori Refael PeretzSeries installment concept
02The AlumniOri Refael Peretz
Beyond the first assignment.
Training can build capability without answering every question of duty or loyalty. That tension belongs to the series’ continuing world.
The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.
Ori Refael PeretzSeries installment concept
03The AlumniOri Refael Peretz
A continuing world.
Recruits, instructors, former operators and factions provide the context. The individual character and conflict remain to be developed.
The Laurel is a hard habit to lose.
Ori Refael PeretzSeries installment concept
The catalogueThe Laurel is a hard habit to lose.Series installment concept
The Black Laurel
Beyond the first assignment
Recruits
Instructors
Alumni
Factions
The Alumni is a working installment in The Black Laurel, rooted in the institution’s continuing social world. Recruits, instructors, alumni and factions carry different experiences of the same institution and its demands.
Training gives the series a recurring story engine, but capability alone does not resolve questions of loyalty and duty. The Alumni belongs to that broader world of people whose lives continue to be shaped by the Laurel.
Working installment title
The story in development
The central character, conflict and position in the sequence remain to be chosen. The title establishes an installment direction, with the individual narrative still ahead.
Detail from the cover concept
The visual identity
An image of belonging.
The cover concept for The Alumni. Explore the complete artwork at a larger size.
