E. E. Cummings Cross Media Presence

Project

Website, iPhone app and bookmarks for E. E. Cummings, an American poet, writer and artist.

Notes

This project focused on creating a cross media presence for E. E. Cummings. The website includes his poetry, a list of his books and works, his artwork, a list of live reading dates, an online store and contact information. Overall, the design reflects his sense of modern style and experimentation.

The iPhone app, "Poetry Like E.E. Cummings," encourages users to write poetry in the E. E. Cumming's style. Once inside the app, the user can create a poem, see their saved poems or see other user-submitted poems. A word bank suggestion box will be included on the writing screen, and the poems will be limited to 400 characters. Once the poem is finished, the user will be prompted to shake the app up. The shake will both create spaces between words, sentences and letters and move words around to open up new possibilities for the poem. When the user marks the poem as finished, they will have the option to share their work via email, Facebook, Twitter or in the user archives.

The E. E. Cummings bookmark series is designed to come in a pack of three. When broken apart, the bookmarks each have a poem on the front and a partial image on the back. When a series is put together, the partial image fits with the other two bookmarks to show a full painting or drawing by E. E. Cummings.

Both the website and iPhone app designs are mockups only.

Categories

brand development, promo design