ttmm for Pebble Watchfaces Apps

Readability and Style. Pebble smartwatches use low resolution (144x168 px) e-ink displays which in daylight make graphic perfectly clear, but in medium light cotrast is very low. To balance these two completely different way of showing time I design simple and clear graphic with rather large visual elements and digits.

New forms of time. I experimented with new abstract ways of showing four digits of time. There is PLAITTMM with a new font where every element in digit counts, so 1, 2, 3 are light digits and 7, 8, 9 are dense. In other models I wanted to express metaphor that life is precious and means something. MOMENTTMM is new way to see time passing by - unpredicted change in endless combination pointing for you something unique which last only for a moment like luck or love, and in CELLTTMM time is in a cage of grid eats nothing and grows so that each hour can count. TTMMFALG shows how "wind of the TIME" blows. TTMMAZE reveal the maze of the time and TTMMSTRING is kind of time instrument where hours are strings.

I am going to find partner or investor to design and produce TTMM hardware watch. If you are interested let me know.

I designed the TTMM for Pebble collection out of pure desire to create for my own pleasure and to discover my creativity. The black and white screen of the Pebble smartwatch was like discovering a new world for me. I can compare it to discovering sheet music and experimenting with what can be depicted on it. The Pebble watch allowed me to compose and visualize my own graphic melodies of time. Harmony, rhythm and flow were important. It was breaking the sound barrier and flying into the future.

Both movies are peppered with small elements of abstract graphical interfaces in spaceship cockpits. In Star Wars Episode IV, in the X-Wing cockpit during the finale of the attack on the Death Star, you can see buttons with dots, circles and lines. These unassociated and unspoken, yet characteristic abstract graphic elements meant something and had their functions. These elements stuck with me and triggered questions "what are these strange buttons for and what do they mean?" And so I decided to create my own designs that I understood and liked to look at.

Tests, trials and improvements. The visual appeal came from treating the watch screen like a postage stamp field or a miniaturized poster that had to convey the content (TIME) quickly and attractively. The limited 1-bit resolution of the Pebble smartwatch screen (144x168 pixels) required a completely new extreme approach to graphic design. Working on the projects resembled creating single-color animated icons from which a significant image emerged. I was most pleased with the micro icons that represented a specific visualization of the dial and which had a size of 24x28 pixels.