Abstracted

Designed and created by Kevin Weber // August 2013

Abstracted is a concept that uses art to display time.

To Read

Hours are the large horizontal black bars. They act as tally marks (4 bars = 4 hours past 12, 5 bars = 5 hours past 12). Hours will count, starting from the top of the screen, up to 11, and at 12 will reset to 0 (0 hours past 12).

Minutes are the thin diagonal stripes on the left side. They too act as tally marks, counting up to 59 and at 60/0 will reset to 0. They will fill up from the bottom of the screen to the black triangle in the corner.

PM is represented by the large grey shade on the bottom right of the screen. If it is there, it is PM, if it is not, it is AM.

Note: Abstracted is in 12hr format only.

The black triangle at the top serves multiple functions.

• As a design element
• As a visual aid to know when minutes stop. This is because the minute lines are spaced out by a specific amount of pixels. If spaced out by one more pixel, the bars go off-screen, uncountable. This current spacing does not fill up the entire screeen, and therefore, without a visual aid, seem to end abruptly.
• At a later time, I may add a version with a date number that goes here.