Friday, 9 January 2009

What is a book?

Found this mental book design that uses inverse braile and interpretive illustrations, just after doing a google search for braile alphabets, this came up, but it totally strips the conventional use of a book and uses 3 techniques and colours to give the book an emphatic finish, not sure who did it, but I still think its worth a big mention.

My research consisted of alot of non-visual means, as the only real categories I could establish were verbal and non verbal. Despite these seemingly limited options, I managed to make braille a visual means to communicate, by this I mean - using the references to the braille dictionary I had - a video, that was current with my theme "100 Hellos" in 100 languages. However, the research I have thus far gathered is soley internet based, as my time cannot be bent to my will doing what I would of loved to have done when I get a chance. . . nose around in the local library!
But heres the video anyway....

As you can see it is a work in progress. But due to the fact only people who have full vision and have a clear knowledge would be able to view it, which seems a bit pointless, but i still think it has a visual impact on the viewer, all images were gridded up accordance to the braille system *see research file. Then edited on photoshop.
It also seems that artist reference to my subject matter is harder to attain than a pound of platinum. Maybe a new approach is needed....

1 comment:

Bequa said...

i really love this book you found, it seems almot ironic that its so asthetically pleasing yet its aimed at the blind. but it still dose waht its suposed to.