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LOOK INSIDE THERE IS MYSTERY AND EXCITEMENT IN THE UNKNOWN “While experiencing heavier fog than I have ever known, I couldn’t help but to allow my mind to wonder off in a million places.”
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Symbolically, both the fog and the veil represent mystery and distorted vision. To continue exploring the idea of symbolism one could also include visual representations of confusion, danger and mental unclearity. On the other hand, visuals could also represent excitement depending on ones perception of the unknown.
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Using the coin filled cups submerged in milky water, I was able to visually depict depth of field. As water was added, the coins became less visable, similar to what objects look like when moving further away in foggy conditions. Symbolically, the veil symbolizes hidden truths and mysteries.
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Embrassing the negative space provided for us in most visual examples of fog allows us to be creative when placing text in the image.
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CITY & FIELD Essentially, fog is a cloud that occurs at ground level instead of in the sky. Fog is made up of tiny droplets of water that float suspended in the air, but it also may consist of ice particles during very cold conditions. Under most circumstances, air contains water vapor. The warmer the air, the more water it can hold. As the air cools, it loses its ability to hold that water. When the air cools to the so-called dew point, it becomes fully saturated with water vapor. If the air cools any further, it loses the ability to hold all of that water vapor and forces some of the vapor to condense around microscopic particles, like dust, forming droplets. When enough of these droplets form, fog is made.
A mist of fog cascades through English town and country. Blue wind drift on, blow through till the dust is gone. Gone, confusion fog.
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I felt inspired to choose this particular subject because of unusual amounts of fog we have been experiencing in Detroit, Michigan. While experiencing heavier fog than normal, I couldn’t help but to allow my mind to explore the possibilities. In exploration of the phenomenon (fog), the Creative Connection cards where used to guide our discovery process. Using tubs of milky water, a liquidized fog was immulated and experiented with using cups, coins, fingers and photography.
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TOYING WITH PHENOMENONS As clichĂŠ as it sounds, experiencing such an unusual weather condition helped me to think more creatively due to the change in everyday experience. I am hoping that this project will allow me to explore how I can capture a feeling of mystery and excitement of the unknown. For part three of this assignment, I explored many areas of interpreting the topic. To capture fog in motion I simulated fog using a vape pen, blowing billows of smoke into large wine glasses and observed as the smoke swept the insides of the glass and remained inside like a witches brew.
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Essentially, fog is a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface that obscures or restricts visibility
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TENSION RISING The inclusion of environmental factors such as fog, wind, snow, and rain into a design produces both a visual and psycological effect on an audience. Climate can serve as something much more important than just a backdrop for the story; it can function as an antagonist to a character, or creat a mood of tension. Whether atmospheric conditions are naturalistic or surreal they must be, from the designers standpoint, controlled to the extent that they can be adequately documented. Since the various conditions of weather seldomly conform to a preferred schedule, a designer can find ways to reproduce the element of fog indoors or out. In film, one of the most common atmospheric effects utilized is the creation of a foggy mist. Perhaps the easiest way to create a fogshrouded environment is to use a fog filter in front of the camera, but for more realistic results one can use fog machines, smudgepots or dry ice.
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CLARITY AT THE SURFACE
TYPOGRAPHY OF TRANSPARENT PAINT T h i n l a ye r s o f p ai n t appear t rans parent unt il layers are applied
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CHANGING THE SUBJECT MATTER Illustrating fog eases the severity of the subject matter and transforms it into a playful topic that can be more inviting to the viewer. In this example the audience is engaged with curiosity at the thought of folklore. The background in this example allows for the giant fog creature to be a focal point as he breathes fog down upon the land.
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TYPOGRAPHY Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written languages legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line spacing (leading), letter-spacing (tracking), and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning).
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The term typography is also applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters, numbers, and symbols created by the process. Type design is a closely related craft, sometimes considered part of typography; most typographers do not design typefaces, and some type designers do not consider themselves typographers.Typography also may be used as a decorative device, unrelated to communication of information.
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MAKE FA M I L I A R STRANGE When writing about their research process, doctoral researchers sometimes refer to the need to deal with things that up till then they have taken for granted. They say that they have to de-familiarise e v e n t s , p e o p l e , p ra c t i c e s a n d ways of speaking which they know well. It is not at all uncommon for people to use phrases such as “making the familiar strange� when describing this process.
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This statement usually leads on to a commentary about the processes used to promote reflexivity–keeping a journal, interrogating what’s written, being acutely aware of their own positioning and so on.
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THE ANATOMY OF FOG Essentially, fog is a cloud that occurs at ground level instead of in the sky. Fog is made up of tiny droplets of water that float suspended in the air, but it also may consist of ice particles during very cold conditions. Under most circumstances, air contains water vapor. The warmer the air, the more water it can hold. As the air cools, it loses its ability to hold that water. When the air cools to the so-called dew point, it becomes fully saturated with water vapor.
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P AT T E R N S E M U L AT I N G N AT U R E lines used to trace the movement of water vapor
lines used to trace the movement of water vapor
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THE POWER O F PAT T E R N S A basic human skill is the ability to interpret patterns. We use them to gauge the past, present, and future in all kinds of things: the layers of earth that allow archaeologists to date their findings, or the movement of pressure systems that enable weather predictions. We also use patterns to articulate messages in design. Think about a few logos that are seen everyday, and how they use pattern to inform. Patterns are at the very existence of life as we know it—the spiral of a hurricane, rippling sand dunes, waves in the ocean, circular volcanos, winding rivers, a plant flowering, the lines on the palms of our hands, the prints on our fingers, the crystals in snowflakes. But with so many distractions, so much worry about not enough time, we kind of blank them out, which can be a shame.
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ma r k e r u s e d to s k et ch o ut a hand let t ered vers io n then imported into psd, type used to emulate chalk.
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“As we develop ever more sophisticated technology, we become more disconnected from nature and less able to understand and appreciate its patterns. We forget that the human form itself is a construct of natural pattern — embedded in our DNA as the double helix of evolving life — and it is essential to everything related to our existence.” — maggie macnab
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