The Wall of Fame: Relaunch
With the new Wall of Fame, edding reopens their international hub for creative expression and inspiration. A digital canvas that gives everyone a platform to make their mark and immortalize themselves alongside the strokes of other artists and creatives in real-time. At home or on the go – modern web technology guarantees an exciting product experience that gives stage to the brand through the stories and expressions of its fans.
Paper to Pixels
A marker doesn’t have to be a boring, pragmatic tool. It can also empower people to discover the joy of their creativity. Each edding proves that, and the brand wanted the world to experience this power of expression first-hand. The challenge: Bring that tangible product feeling to life through the web so that it can resonate with anyone, anywhere.
Feel the Fame
In order to create an impactful virtual product experience, we couldn’t just focus on the physics of it. We had to treat expression as more than an output. It had to be part of a constant exchange that encourages collaboration and feedback in order to bring the product to life and foster individual validation. One that demonstrates the might of an edding by instilling a sense of fame.
A Wall that Brings the World Together
Walls don’t have to divide, they can be a canvas that brings people together. A stage for everyone to express themselves. A living story awash with colors and powerful phrases, doodles and impressive murals. A place where creativity is celebrated and marks are made. The Wall of Fame reclaims walls for good.
Art-First
Personal expression is at the center of the experience. After all, it’s not the extra large logo that makes you fall in love with something like a marker – it’s the creative joy that the marker gives you. That’s why we took a very subtle approach when it comes to interface design and brand communication. Besides a few obligatory buttons, it’s just you, your art and your virtual edding.
An Endless Story of Strokes
As more and more people leave their mark, the limited canvas space naturally fosters a creative exchange among artists. The Wall of Fame is not just live – it is alive with individual show-offs, creative collaborations and artsy arguments. It cultivates the joy of individual expression through shared creation. Only at certain thresholds does the wall – and thus the canvas – grow to keep the conversation going. The result is a collective story told through thousands of individual expressions, and an endless artwork that evolves with every stroke.
Focus on Fame
Marks are only truly made if they are talked about. It’s the fame that makes them count: An emotional stage that lifts artists higher with every comment, Like and share. With on-platform chat we put artists directly in touch with their fans. Found a gem? Save it with a snapshot and share it with your friends or simply give it the “Fame” it deserves at the press of a button.
Quality as a Catalyst
The most important driver for becoming an inspirational and engaging art platform that generates high-quality content is having such content to begin with. Together with the agency La Red, a launch campaign and contest were realized to make people’s creative fuel burn with specially curated topics and influential artists, including Laura Klinke, Reyhan Yildirim and Pablo Fontagnier (Hombre SUK). It wasn’t just a success – it set the right creative and qualitative tone for all strokes to come.
State-of-the-Art Art
Central to experience is a drawing engine that transfers every stroke onto a digital canvas with respect to the features of the specific marker as well as velocity, curvature and even pressure – guaranteeing a true edding feeling. Each stroke is saved individually for completely separable artworks that are distributed as optimized vector graphics (and easy to moderate). Based on WebGL, this modern technological approach allows the Wall of Fame to transport edding’s power of expression around the world with great accessibility and maximum visual quality on all possible devices and media – now and in the future.
17 Strokes per Second
Within just one month, doodlers and illustrators turned an initially white wall into an inspirational story made up of thousands of artworks. It engages visitors both actively and passively around the edding brand and what it stands for: the power of expression.
