Saturday, September 11, 2010

Novelty Textures

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  1. this makes me think that there must be something similar to abstract comics for blind readers: a series of textures to be felt in sequence.

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  2. I've wondered the same thing. I have some printing plates (not plates, really, but the rubber sheets? not sure of term) from old newspaper comic pages, and it's fascinating to see and feel how subtle the raised textures are, particularly the zip-a-tone and wash screens. I do believe some blind people can "read" raised text and I wonder if relief-type imagery in comic book form would also work. I've also done some drawing on pages torn from braille books (pardon the NSFW content):

    http://www.goofbutton.com/2007/02/braille.html

    http://www.goofbutton.com/2007/02/night_writing.html

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