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PROCESS IN FOLIO Is a book about a bunch of hot stuff I found and states of mind I passed through, how my thoughts got filled in an imagine world beyond life. - SD.
P O RT F O L I O OVERVIEW
Portfolio Somesd 26 / 29
Experimental Font 30 / 35
Set Me Free
PROCESS IN FOLIO 12’13
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Nature Power 6 / 25
Identity 36 / 41
Looking right through 104 / 107
The Pattern Of Light 70 / 85
Pixels In My Vision 108 / 133
Bursts of colours 146 / 151
Further Than The Eye 86 / 103
Colour Perception
Fundamental Drawing
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DVD add 156
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Third Bachelor graphic design we’re now running through. In team of 5 indivuals we did some research last semester about the given “POWER” - in high feather, influence, able, deep-rooted, vigorous, resistless , in full force, might, physical, turn. It made us all think in different ways, I had a big fascination for the powers of nature, the wealth of structures and shapes it’s given, extremely weather and the states of our physical minds. These are all images I found wich had to with different types of force, I have made a selection of my blog as a source of inspiration.
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Wondering what’s causing all the extreme weather we’ve seen lately? The short answer, scientists say, is rotten luck and a warmer planet. It’s not easy to shatter a record that has lasted for more than 75 years. But that’s what happened last month, when a stubborn heat wave pushed July temperatures in the United States into uncharted territory. Not since 1895, when national record keeping began, has the thermometer stayed so high. The average temperature in July was 3.3°F (1.8°C) above the 20th-century average, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), breaking a record set in 1936. Besides making life miserable for people in places like Kansas
drought in its history. It wasn’t just bad luck that caused these disasters, he explained. Human-induced global warming was also to blame. Since 1970, the average global temperature has risen by 0.9°F (0.5°C), primarily as a result of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, according to most scientists. This additional heat has increased the chances for severe heat waves, drought, and other forms of extreme weather. “Given how little rain we had, we probably would have had record warmth in Texas in 2011 even without climate change,” Nielsonn-Gammon said. “But climate change added an additional degree or so of heat to it.”
“What’s causing extreme weather?”
Greater Rainfall Expected
City, Missouri, where the temperature hit 107°F (42°C) on July 25, the withering heat is also taking a toll on wildlife and crops. Streams in the Midwest got so hot in recent weeks, and water levels dropped so low, that the extreme conditions killed tens of thousands of sturgeon and other fishes. Meanwhile, crops such as corn and soybeans, despite welcome rains across the Midwest this week, have been devastated by the recent drought and are now expected to produce the smallest yields in years, according to theU.S. Depatment of Agriculture.
Behind the warming Supercharging Extreme Weather
The main forces behind these disasters have been natural weather cycles, such as back-toback La Niñas in 2010 and 2011 that routed storms away from drought-prone parts of North America, and a massive high pressure system, known as a heat ridge, that parked itself over the U.S. this summer and refused to budge. But there’s more to the story, said John Nielsen-Gammon, state climatologist in Texas, which just went through the worst one-year
And that’s not all. As Earth’s oceans grow warmer, they evaporate more moisture into the atmosphere—about 4 percent more since 1970, according to recent data. This additional moisture in the air makes it more likely that storms will bring downpours like the ones that hit Beijing in late July. Authorities there described those rains as the heaviest in six decades. “Everybody knows that if you turn up the fire on your stove, you evaporate the water in a pot more rapidly,” said Jay Gulledge, senior scientist at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), a think tank in Arlington, Virginia. Luck will always play a role in determining whether it’s sunny or rainy on any particular day. But these two factors, rising temperatures and increased moisture in the atmosphere, make the chances for extreme weather that much greater from here on. From: news.nationalgeographic.com
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A shipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wake cuts through a pattern of oil near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday May 17, 2010.
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Hundreds of thousands of gallons of Crude Oil have poured into the Gulf of Mexico, every day, for days now. The Oil is gushing from a well 5,000 feet underwater. An explosion and fire on a drilling rig on April 20, 2010; left 11 workers missing and presumed dead. The rig sank two days later about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. Immediate States Affected: Louisiana, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas (basically the Southern Coastline). The oil slick was 16 miles offshore the Mississippi River Delta, the marshlands at Louisiana where the river empties into the ocean. The Coast Guard and Navy aided BP with 100,000 feet of protective booms have been laid down to protect the shoreline, with 500,000 feet more standing by. Two Air Force C-130 Hercules planes have been sent to Mississippi and were awaiting orders to start dumping chemicals on the oil spill in the water. Wind patterns pushed the spill into the Louisiana Coast, prompting consideration of more urgent measures to protect coastal wildlife. photos and article Š scodpub.wordpress.com
THE 2010 GREAT AMERICAN OIL SPILL
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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer onboard NASAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Terra satellite took this picture of the two cyclones south of Iceland on November 20, 2006 Š image credits NASA
Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones are one coastal areas, but it also hits areas hundreds of of nature’s most powerful forces. They are all miles inland. In some cases, flooding occurs tropical storms whose winds reach around days after a storm actually hits shore.Months 74 miles per hour or even more. Their wind when it occurs include: August and September blows in a spiral direction are the peak months during around a relatively calm hurricane season. Hurricane area known as “The Eye”. season is between June 1st WHAT’S IN THE The eye is usually 20 to and November 30th.The 30 miles wide. The most NAME HURRICANE name Hurricane was apviolent activity takes place plied to migratory tropical in the area immediately cyclones. They originate over around the eye, called “The Eyewall”. As the oceans in certain regions near the equator, and hurricane approaches, the sky begins to darken, particularly to those arising in the West Indian and the wind gets stronger. As it nears lands, region, including the Caribbean Sea and the it may bring torrential rain, storm surges, and Gulf of Mexico. In the North Pacific and Philvery high winds. One hurricane can last for ippines area are “typhoons” while in the Indian more than 2 weeks in open waters. The heavy and South Pacific Ocean are “cyclones.” rain brought by a hurricane not only threatens
Broken Levee hurricane Katrina © Vincent Laforet, New York Times.
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Polar low Š Image Credits: Nasa
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South of Khartoum, Sudan, Dec 2008 © NASA CREDITS Terra satellite
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Waves of the diminutive Amsterdam Island © Jeff Schmaltz/ NASA CREDITS
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Dallol vulcano © Jeff Schmaltz
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Nevada IKONOS satellite, Sept 2004 © IKONOS image ©2004 GeoEye
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There are so many things that keep my head spinning, sounds and environments are always integrating me, I like colours blinding my eyes, so I f* love nature and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extends, structures and shapes, patterns and plants, experimental typefaces and collages, animals like we are, feathers & fashion, Acne, things making me think twice and all kind of beauty that warms me up.
MY LIFE IN AN IMAGINE WORLD STEPHANIE C H A N TA L DEHEYDER
I made this as annex related to my sollicitation for internship.
C CA AN N ’’ TT YY O OU U SS EE EE II TT ’’ SS N NO O TT M M EE
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SOMESD. TUMBLR .COM STEPHANIE DEHEYDER
T MY K OU TFOLIO C E H C OR & NE P ONLI IC DESIGN H GRAP RATION T ILLUS
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EXPERIMENTAL FONT
FONT MAGMAFLOOD For this type design I got inspired by natural phenomena within the theme power, my fascination for structures and shapes have led me to this form of letter design. Magmaflood is inspired by lava flowing to stone.
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Experimental posters using the font showing the ambiance of it. â&#x2C6;&#x2122; 420 x 297
Font Magmaflood
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;MOVE MY TYPEâ&#x20AC;? My interest in moving fonts led me to the experiment that I was looking for different ways to transform my created font. So I looked at it through a plastic bottle, a glass of water, a kaleidoscope, a bag of crips or other light transmission materials. I wanted to give the magmaflood font a new dimension.
MOVING FONT FLOODED
printscreens of the moving font
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“GOTTA HAVE HOUSE MUSIC ALL NITE LONG, WITH THAT HOUSE MUSIC U CAN’T GO WRONG”
That specific song you are listening to, the affect how you feel.The nature of emotions created by music has been a matter of much debate. Music has that power and none of us realize that until we really think about it. Happy rhythms and brass sounds have the highest capability of recharging and energizing your body. Music affects your emotions in many ways. Music also is the key to your enjoying of a movie. Music affects your emotions by being able to change your state of mind from a sad mood to at happy, upbeat mood. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just say MUSIC IS A MYSTERY.
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Our sense of color-one of the most mysterious of perceptions - depends upon three varieties of cone cells in the retina. Cones react to wavelenghts of bright light associated with green red and blue. As the intensity of the color grows stronger, these neurons ratchet up the strength of the electrochemical signals that eventually wend their way to the brain’s visual center. Neural networks create other colors by mixing the sensation of the three primary colours of light(red, yellow and blue) in varying intensities. But this mixing doesn”t work in the same wat as combining colors of paint. If you blend red and green paint you get brown. However mixing red and green wavelenghts of light creates yellow. If the cones have an impaired ir absent ability to register all hues of the visual spectrum, the result is color blindness. The fourth type of light-sensitive neurons is called rods. They register light when its intensity is low, as on a moonless nihgt, but do not add to the mix of primary colors from the cones. From: National Geographic magazine “Our Brain”
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L I K E WA T E R ’S F L OA T I N G Y O U ‘ R E G OO IN THROUGH MY VA I N S .
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FROM EYES TO BRAIN
“ I was feeling paper-thin staring at the coulours of lightning through my bottle of sweet chaï Doux.”
When light (electromagnetic radiation of a certain energy) enters the eye and strikes the retina, the decomposition of pigments in the rods and cones results in electrical activity which is integrated in the cells (ganglion and others) comprised in some the layers of the ten layer system of the retina. The ganglion cells feed the brain with information coded in chains of electrical impulses; its rate is proportional of the logarithm of the intensity of the original stimulation (Fechner’s law). Other attributes of the light, such as color are determined by which cells are firing (the cone cells are differentially sensitive to red green and blue). These cells are intermixed in the fovea and their relative excitations provides the brain with information about the color of the objects being viewed. The retina is divided vertically down the middle; the nerve fibers from the left half of each retina send information about the
right half of the visual field to the striate cortex in the left occipital lobe of the brain. The nerve fibers from the eye, reaching the striate cortex, preserve the topology and much of the geometry of the imaged scene information, the visual projection area is in approximate one to one correspondence with the retina Stimulation of the nerve cells in the visual projection area causes subjects to “see” elementary visual events and lesions in this area lead to blind spots in the visual field The region of the striate cortex immediately surrounding the visual projection is called the visual association area. Stimulation of the visual association area give rise to complex recognizable visual hallucinations and lesions in this area leads to disturbance of the perception of complete visual complexes, the inability to recognize complex objects or their pictorial representations.
HOW IS THE PATTERN OF LIGHT ENERGY PROJECTED ONTO THE LIGHT SENSITIVE CELLS AND TRANSFORMED INTO A MODEL OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD?
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SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST ILLUSION Seeing is a synthesis of various aspects; in each of those facets can be wrong-seen.Observation errors can be interpreted, include brightness (contrast illusion), color (color subjectivity), distance (3D effect), dimensions (height, size), displacement (speed). An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological ones that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type (brightness, colour, size, position, tilt, movement), and cognitive illusions, the result of unconscious inferences. There are broadly three error sources: optical illusions, caused by properties of light. Example: consider that in the evening the Sun really is red. physiological illusions, based on properties of the human eye. Example: an afterimage on the retina, or by far a billboard as homogeneous colored see, while dotted actually is. psychological illusions, where the brain interpret the signals wrong. Example: an impossible figure observing, or a face in the clouds. An illusion is an apparent reality or an incorrect concept of reality. The image that someone has is based on his observations of reality through the senses and processing of these signals in the brain. From:wikipedia.org
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“LOOKING RIGHT THROUGH” The pictures on this pages shows an example of how my eye got touched by a perceptionthrough life, so the first one is a picture of a tea pot. The photo has led me to the next following series of images. Usually I leave from photos of reflections, color inspirations, things out of nature, image deformation and so on. As you’ll see I use light and colour as mayor source of my work.
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When it is dark or at night, I see thousands of them as if the pixels are what make up the objects in my vision. I asked others if they see the same thing and some of them said so. What are these? Also, when I wake up or I am tired, my objects sometimes shift a tiny bit as if they move or my eyesight strains to focus on them, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not moving.
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I printed this pattern above - which I created by using a photo and ink - on a slideprojection paper. Each time I looked at it the print changed so I went on with a new image of it.
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Fundamental Drawing
For a school subjet ‘fundamental drawing’I kept a sort of personal diary that cleaned me up, images or text arises as I got triggered by environments, ocassions that take place or from my own concoctions or thoughts I dream away. Sometimes they also arise when I loss a sort of grip on the reality or are they an expression of repressed emotions. When I was fullfilled I’ve taken apart all the booklets and complement the emotions of the images.
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Tools I mostly used mixed media, film, photos, ink and acrylic on paper and foils, collages, textures and materials, scanner, digital camera, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe after effects, Quicktime movie maker, overheadprojection etc.
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Looking different at things in life tickles your senses again. -SD.
Where my head was at From the given power I moved on to the senses. It’s something really fascinating me and also very personal. I focused me on the aspects of seeing. It’s about the consciously and unconsciously thoughts you got when you see something or even hear. The connection between our eyes and brain, our sense of perception that can be tricked by depth perception, picture distortion such as holograms and sterograms are a source of inspiration. What do you see with eyes closed and what’s that noise playing in your head if there is none at all? Also the importance of colour perception to our brain, it’s one of the most mysterious observations which disconnects emotions and has an influence on our mind.
“Process in folio” is a book about research en own work realised in the third bachelor graphic design at St. Lucas academy of fine arts, in Antwerp. 2012 /13
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