Recent architecture graduate Nikki Onderstall uses accurate geographic information in model-sculptures to examine Cape Town's city planning.
A story on NPR about Braille city maps for the blind instantly reminded me of some artifacts I had read about during one of my literature surveys for my oral exams (Place as Recently Imagined by Archaeologists, to be exact). Peter Whitridge wrote a brilliant article titled Landscapes, Houses, Bodies, Things: "Place" and the Archaeology…
Mahalo, says thine Spawn: Yesterday Mr. Telecanter posted an image of an Inuit tactile map carved in wood, that allowed Inuit folks to na...
National Braille Press offers blind children the power of literacy and blind adults access to the printed word.
3D printing technologies help make a difference in the lives of many people across the globe, and in so many ways. Soon, thanks to the ingenuity of a freshman engineering student, the lives of the visually impaired at Texas A&M University will also be changed for the better with the help of 3D printing. By Tess,
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if it’s coincidence or the start of a trend, but in 3D printing news, certain topics seem to suddenly be everywhere at once. Lately, stories...
Frances MacLeod is an artist & designer creating floral artwork & patterns, custom lettering, and tactile design work for the detail-oriented among us.
Positive wayfinding tactile paving and Braille maps on handrails. Schladming, Austria.
Berlin, Stadtansichten Magazin Berlin-based Sarah Illenberger is well know for her use of humble materials—paper, styrofoam, cold cuts, etc...
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The accessible wayfinding system for the Sidur Museum consists of tactile nameplates, maps, and stickers on the railing. Done in the 2016 year.
Last week was super duper crazy. We had to get in our final graded writing prompt for our administration {yes…in February…insert slight sigh...
Making tactile maps are fun and extremely useful! Kids can run their fingers along a tactile map
My thesis project "Tactile Supports for Wayfinding" is composed by a prototype of the tactile maps for visually impaired people and a research project to test the design process.
This emotional map is based on the Inuit floating maps of territorial fishing grounds of coastal Greenland. This tactile map depicts my weekly emotional state during the first year of my MFA at Edinburgh College of Art from September 2009 to July 2010. On one side of the map Fear is measured against Elation. On … Emotional Tactile Map Read More »
Make these impressive 3D Salt Dough Maps with your kids to learn about and explore geography and landforms in a tactile, hands-on project!
Four colossal bookcases. Seven thermoform machines, five binding machines, and two light projectors. Twenty boxes bursting with aluminum tactile graphics ranging from fungi to fish, electricity to elements, geomorphology to geometry, mitosis to moon phases. And the pièce de résistance: 40 volumes amounting to 2,177 pages of the most comprehensive maps available in a tactile…
I am prone to make digital maps that try to look like they are assembled from actual materials other than pixels and protocols. It's because I like physical, tactile, maps. They are real in a way that digital maps aren't. So I tried my hand at drawing a map for the first time since like,…
Description: Map of southwest Germany with embossed Roman text at the bottom. From a collection of tactile maps made for use by the blind. Created by Martin Kunz, Director of the Illzach School near Mulhouse, France. Creator: Martin Kunz Date: ca. 1900 Format: map Physical Collection: AG227 M. Kunz Tactile illustrations and maps Digital Identifier: TM0040 Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
