The idea behind a series of posters is to highlight the unique and interesting characteristics of the shipping forecasts and represent these visually. Having picked up on the potential of sayings, traditions, the beaufort scale I can see the visual joys you can have with them. The unexplored visual potential of the these, all born from a regimented yet poetic language, is vast with ideas picking up on beautiful elements and others relating to cakes, theres unseen and unexplored potential here, all of which are ideas to have a bit of fun with.
Initial ideas: "Losing its identity" "Rain later, good" "Lightly icing" "Rising more slowly" |
Should these ideas be coherent to a style, recognisable as a series?
Could they all be relatable to more everyday things, something the language and the worlds of the shipping forecasts are sometimes not? DEFINE THE IDEA: Visualising the language taken from the shipping forecasts into print posters. I will visualise them to a coherent style so they become a set, I have two concept options for each poster idea. I can either create visuals based around objects people are familiar with, objects you'd find around the home etc. Or simplify the idea behind each concept right down so they become minimalist posters in every way although if the posters become to abstracted it's possible the idea behind them will become lost. |
Initially thinking about the idea of becoming one person, one personality, one style, having no individuality. This could be in the form of losing your fingerprint, the one thing that is always truly unique, turning into a very common item, the barcode. The idea of pixelating, perhaps through a line, or maybe sea wave, it pixelates, fades out or blurs. I was also thinking about the idea of no individuality and what that almost meant with nazi doings, striving for a blonde haired, blue eyed world, an idea with too many meanings and too much controversy.
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It's such a sweet, delicate phrase, a phrase that immediately turns the mind, fancily, to beautifully crafted cupcakes and hungers the stomach. There are many textures and a huge beauty to icing done well. A cake covered in icing, most often with a rippled effect, shares similarities with that of surface sea water which could become something nice once visualised. Another idea flour or icing sugar and the way it 'lightly' covers surfaces, this could look quite effective if over a bold colour and sprinkled carefully.
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The negative connotation to the word rain is then reversed with the positivity of good. Visualizing a phrase that is contradicting becomes more of a challenge making you think about the scene described. Rain later in the forecasts is a warning giving you time to prepare for the weather, something us on land would prepare for with an umbrella.
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The beaufort scale has had many modifications to the way its visualised and the way its written having many updates over the years. There are many ways you can simulate the telling of wind, the wind sock is quite a nice example and if illustrated beautifully could be a fun take on the original idea of sea state. If i make my ideas more about 'everyday things' i could reflect this idea with the commonly used washing line when accompanied by dreaded wind!
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Finisterre, the previous name of sea area Fitzroy, means the end of the world. To say it rolls of the tongue, fading out into a soft phonic. To look at its a pleasing spelling with the double 'rr' and recurring letters. The meaning brings an eery depth to the world but also a meaning quite fulfilling, a meaning very unknown to man. it could be displayed in darkness, the unknown, or when the sea regions were named it was thought this could have been the end of one of the seas on the flat Earth which could be an interesting visual to play on.
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Visibility is a constant and key theme throughout the forecasts causing contradiction, irony and helping to enhance the repetitive melodic poem that is read.
As a research task investigating the vision within the forecasts it’s difficult not to imagine the potential, with four visibility explanations from 1000m to 5 nautical miles it’s also clear that the language becomes more of a chart of accuracy than a bedtime lullaby. |
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Rising more slowly causes fury amongst the land lubber due to the strange and inaccurate wording because of the capped word cap. It's a phrase that causes confusion as its only part of the sea weather pressure report. Theres a few ways i can visualise this mainly through the use of bubbles in water or steam vapour rising.
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