Tactile design

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Nicolette Bodewes has created a tactile toolkit designed to be used in psychotherapy sessions.

the interactive audio and lighting project by eun hee jo explores flexible materials as 2D planes, and how they can integrate into an environment.

“In visual maps information is encoded in position, size, shape, value, color, hue, orientation, and texture. In tactile maps for the blind vibration, flutter, pressure, temperature, size, shape, texture, orientation, and elevation are used instead.”

Some of the people with whom I work lack sensation in their fingers (peripheral neuropathy) as well as being visually impaired. They can feel big thi

Brush, sculpt, tear and bend are not usually actions you associate with walls — but interactive surface coverings that will change all that are on their way…

The recent talk of haptic technologies refers, implicitly or explicitly, to touchscreens and the like, and while capacitive latency and the ever-growing arsenal of gestures are certainly paramount for glass surfaces, the empirical world is far richer in breadth and depth. As some have argued, tactility is paramount to our...

The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) advances the interior design profession and communicates the impact of design on the human experience.

Tactile picture book for blind children Wondrous World [Čudesan svijet] is the MA graduation project on Visual communications that comprises research, idea, story-writing, design and hand-made production of the model.

Interactive installation exploring a concept of a large-scale visualisation of information.