More tactile books!
This has been a wonderful and at the same time challenging design project with strict educational requirements, a set budget for all six books and many technical challenges. In particular I really enjoyed working closely with the teachers from Visio and the children who gave real time feedback during the design process. This helped me find a balance between functionality and aesthetics in order to design and produce high quality children’s tactile books.
It is the first time that such an ambitious project has been undertaken in the Netherlands; for my part also a new undertaking. Apart from the actual designing I managed the production and developed a workflow which will hopefully help to pave the way for more tactile books being designed and produced here in the future. To realize this project I worked closely with the Visio School in Rotterdam. The project was managed by Dedicon and supported by the Novum Foundation.
It’s a great honour to be rewarded with a Typhlo & Tactus prize. There were 61 entries from 18 countries.
The aim of Typhlo & Tactus: more tactile illustrated books, better in quality, more tactually efficient, for all visually impaired children.
