Braille bracelet wins Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum award
This silver Braille Alphabet Bracelet designed to teach braille won a People’s Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. It was designed by Leslie Ligon, a mother of a blind son. I was astonished at how few people actually know Braille, which makes educational things like this bracelet all the more important. According to [...]
Read More »Blind artist paints by touch
Psychology Today has a fascinating read on blind artist John Bramblitt who didn’t start painting until after he had lost his sight in his twenties. While his “twenty-five years of visual experience provided him with mental images of what he wanted to paint,” an activity he picked up mainly as an outlet and act of [...]
Read More »Photographs by blind photographers
Photograph by Gerardo Nigenda Currently showing at University of California Riverside, “Sight Unseen” is an exhibit of works by accomplished blind photographers. TIME has a photo gallery of this exhibit accompanied by brief commentary that makes for a very interesting read. The artists utilizes their other senses to help frame the photo, but for many [...]
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