TTMM for Pebble Time Round — Archive (2015–2016)

“Through TTMM I am searching for a form, a sign, a logo for TIME.”

— Albert Salamon

The circular constraint
In late 2015 Pebble released the Pebble Time Round — its first and only circular-screen device. The screen was 180 pixels in diameter, the device the slimmest smartwatch in production at the time, and the geometry was new. TTMM had spent two years designing for rectangular displays. The Round demanded that the entire grammar be re-thought.

TTMM for Pebble Time Round is the result — 30 original watchface designs produced between late 2015 and the end of 2016, every one re-designed from the rectangle outward. It is the smallest of the three Pebble-era collections, and in many ways the most disciplined. A circular screen punishes laziness: there is no left or right, no top or bottom, no axis to lean on. Every design here had to find a different way to organise time.

Device
Pebble Time Round — circular e-paper colour display, 180-pixel diameter, 64-colour palette, always-on, no backlight. Launched late 2015. Pebble’s only round-screen device.

Award
Silver A’ Design Award, Interface and Interaction Design Category, 2015–2016 — TTMM for Pebble Time Round.

The full catalogue
The complete TTMM for Pebble Time Round archive (all 30 designs, alphabetical): 2TTMM, 9TTMM, ABOUTTMM, COLONTTMM, COUNTTMM, FEELTTMM, FULLTTMM, GETTMM, NETTMM, NIGHTTMM, PLAITTMM, PREVENTTMM, SPLITTMM, STATTMM, TTMM24, TTMM59, TTMM88, TTMMARC, TTMMBRN, TTMMHORIZON, TTMMNAME, TTMMRIVAL, TTMMROSE, TTMMSPACE, TTMMSTRINGS, TTTMMD, UNITTMM, VITTMM, WATCHTTMM, WHEELTTMM.

For existing users: direct Rebble App Store download links by design are on the main Pebble Archive page.

Press
Designboom covered the launch of the TTMM for Pebble Time Round collection in August 2017 — focusing on the studio’s adaptation of its visual language to the circular form. See the full Press archive.

Books
An ebook documenting the TTMM watchfaces for the colour Pebble Time platform — including 20 designs for Pebble Time Round and 80 for the rectangular Pebble Time — published 2021 by Albert Salamon. Full-page artwork with brief design notes for each face. Available on Apple Books, Google Play Books, and Amazon Kindle.

What came next
The circular language of TTMM for Pebble Time Round continued on Fitbit Versa with TTMM-S, and returns in the upcoming TTMM collection for Pebble Round 2 — currently in development under Eric Migicovsky’s revived Pebble platform. The current TTMM collection for the new rectangular Pebble 2 Duo and the original Pebble devices is TIC-VOL 1.

Team
Design: Albert Salamon; Pebble programming: Michał Żyliński, Wincenty Gulewicz, Artur Salamon, Elijah Kang, Grégoire Sage; iOS programming: Arkadiusz Banaś, Rafał Gorczyński; Android programming: Artur Salamon; Translation: Joanna Szymańska, Gregory McCormick