POEMS - extreme minimalism
POEMS is a poetry reading app.
It is a concept driven by impracticality.
The reading experience simultaneously evokes the struggle of the poetic process, and the artistic beauty of a finished poem.
It is more of a 'work of art', than a functional product, where the experience is curated, much like an art exhibition is curated.
Alternative poem layouts.
These could represent toggle-able options - though there is a purposeful lack of absence of real UI in this concept, it is feasible that gestures alone would be enough to navigate, with enough room for a gesture to switch display modes (e.g. scroll to navigate poem, tap to change display mode and swipe to navigate screen).
Splash/loading screen concepts, populated with branding concepts.
Designed to be versatile and easy to animate - feasibly these could even form as stills from one single animation, or a variety of loading and transition animations.
Matt Burdis
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