Research

Research
When looking at musical space I thought of no better place to start that apple.com and itunes. I found the two sites quite starkly contrasted. The itunes “page” is an integrated part of itunes music player. As well as being a player it is a browser, catalogue and informative tool. Although in a certain sense it portrays musical space – I believe it takes a much broader approach to where my ideas lie. It choose musical space as a global medium, always moving, updated and in your face.

I then looked at the apple website and the all popular ipod. I found this site to be much more targeted at what I was looking to achieve. The ipod presents a clean sleak design. Open and white backdrops to the highlighted and powerful colour of the ipod itself. Although obviously with the intention to sell, the ipod page (in my opinion) has a lot to do with musical space. The ipod is a distinct musical figure, its space in the world is growing and in terms of musical space each different model of ipod holds a different part of that space. E.g. the small shuffle and the larger ipod for more heavy going music listeners.



I was intrigued by the common flow of white in the apple site and it reminded me of the google website. With google being such a huge website I did some research into its design. In terms of space google would present a strong case for global space – nearly any space being possible. The white background conveys this in that it’s a blank slate. Any search can be made, the opportunities are endless and at your fingertips. I really wanted to incorporate this idea of freedom and elegance in my theme to portray the fact that musical space as I was to interpret it is free, open and in its own sense endless.