Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow FUI (Fantasy User Interface): Decide the one thing to be read first and aim the light and the motion at it. Fill the rest with density that carries no meaning
- Type
- Set in FUI (Fantasy User Interface)'s manner (Lead with monospace and let most of the text act as texture. Only the word that must be read changes size and brightness), and let The New Aesthetic's lettering (Set coordinates, labels and confidence scores on a separate layer from human explanation) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in FUI (Fantasy User Interface)'s material (One or two luminous colours on black, thin strokes, almost no fill. Pull the brightness down so the screen sits inside the photographed shot); bring in exactly one thing from The New Aesthetic (Leave low resolution, compression and sensor output visibly unresolved).
- Colour
- Build on #000000, #4FE3FF, #FF6A00 and admit one accent from #E8E8E8, #00FF66, #111111.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- FUI (Fantasy User Interface) Trying to make the screen genuinely operable thins out the density and scatters the information, and it stops being readable in the length of the performance.
- The New Aesthetic Pixels and detection boxes used only as futuristic decoration erase the politics of who classifies whom.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from FUI (Fantasy User Interface) (style, 1997–) and their accent from The New Aesthetic (aesthetic, 2011–). ## What to make Make the kind of thing FUI (Fantasy User Interface) exists for: designing a screen that has to be read in the few seconds an actor is looking at it, or designing the display of a device that does not exist, as a picture that never has to work. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from FUI (Fantasy User Interface) - One thing per screen that the audience is meant to read, with everything else present as density - Columns of monospaced figures updating continuously while computing nothing - Thin luminous lines on black, with shapes drawn as outlines and almost no fill - Frames and controls that look like plausible equipment rather than pure abstraction Composition: Decide the one thing to be read first and aim the light and the motion at it. Fill the rest with density that carries no meaning. Type and lettering: Lead with monospace and let most of the text act as texture. Only the word that must be read changes size and brightness. ## Accent comes from The New Aesthetic, used sparingly - Pixels enlarged onto physical objects - Recognition rectangles and coordinates - Satellite, map and surveillance viewpoints - Compression, omission and machine misclassification Let one material quality come from it: Leave low resolution, compression and sensor output visibly unresolved. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #4FE3FF, carry the structure in #FF6A00 and #000000, and let a single accent come from #00FF66. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: futurity, technique, exhilaration, rebellion. ## What goes wrong - FUI (Fantasy User Interface): Trying to make the screen genuinely operable thins out the density and scatters the information, and it stops being readable in the length of the performance. - The New Aesthetic: Pixels and detection boxes used only as futuristic decoration erase the politics of who classifies whom. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- FUI (Fantasy User Interface) 1997– / Style / UI Expression
The name that stuck to the craft of making the screens that appear inside films. It spread around the work of Mark Coleran, who says he is given credit for the term without being sure he can take it, and who describes these screens as illustration and a storytelling device that was never designed to be used. He works with light, shape, form, movement and sound so that each film screen has one thing the audience is meant to read.
- The New Aesthetic 2011– / Aesthetic / Digital Culture
James Bridle's New Aesthetic names the way machine vision and network imagery leak into physical culture through pixels, satellite views, detection boxes and sensor errors.
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