Colin Merrik Middleton
Colin Merrik Middleton
Wilkes is an online music streaming service much like Spotify or Pandora. However, the music library is contrived of only unsigned musicians. We do not interrupt your listening experience with excessive advertising, instead we offer penny skips. So if you don't like a song, either you can change the radio station or you can pay a penny to skip the song. It seems like a fleeting notion but we have provided listeners with an incentive to pay pennies. Instead of funding our organization, your pennies will be pooled with those accumulated by your community, those pennies will then go towards funding a local free and public event featuring those musicians chosen by your community. As well as a music streaming service, our website is also treated as a networking page for both venues and musicians not associated with any sort of agency. In other words, if a venue is in need of a band to fill a time slot, they can easily look for local artists looking for gigs. Conversely, musicians can easily navigate our website and find venues across the States in need of talent. This is arguably the most important aspect of Wilkes because it allows independent musicians and organizations to form a true symbiotic relationship in which both sides receive equal benefit in separate ways.
This is a way-finding info-graphic hybrid. It is meant to provide participants with all information regarding the pseudo first ever Wilkes penny festival located in Keene NH. It provides viewers with everything from bus schedules, set lists, stage locations, and parking information, to musician bios, vendor listings, and activities at the event.