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Do visually impaired people get to appreciate Graphic Design? (self.Blind)
submitted by Varrie
fastfinge 2 points 5y ago
Well, some people with limited sight might appreciate it more than fully sighted folks. Graphic designs that communicate clearly, can be easily enlarged, have good contrast, etc, make things much easier for them, in ways fully sighted people might not appreciate.

As for completely blind people like myself: not really. I don't think raised graphics are appreciated the same way at all. However, there is more to design than just graphics. For example, I suspect I find unboxing Apple products just as appealing as a sighted person does. There is a lot more than visuals that goes into that design. Same with any other product design, or movie, or anything really.
Varrie [OP] 2 points 5y ago
I am currently studying Graphic Design at the Glasgow School of Art and I want to create a piece which can be appreciated by both sighted and non sighted people.
Do you not think raised shapes and typography would be an interesting experience for someone with a visual impairment?
You're replies are really helpful thank you!
fastfinge 1 points 5y ago
Maybe or maybe not. The important thing to remember is that raised shapes aren't experienced visually, so it can create quite a different impression. With your eyes, you can look at something, and get an overview of the entire thing quickly. Touch is much more granular, and lends itself to a more detailed, and slower, experience of an object. Also, colour and texture are quite different experiences, as far as I can tell. So things that work visually may not work tactilely. Also, tactile information is just processed differently. And I might not have the context to recognize things that would be obvious to someone visually. Statues and figurines are a good example. I can never identify them unless someone tells me what to look for, first. Then I can usually pick out the unique/interesting parts. But even though a figurine is perfectly obvious visually, I've never scene the character in question, and so touching it just doesn't draw any obvious connections for me. And after I touch a figure of, say, a famous movie character, it doesn't change the way I imagine that character in my head. That figure and that character just aren't strongly connected for me, even after I've been told what it is.
walter10h 1 points 5y ago
Absolutely. I have a very high myopia (-14 Left, -16 Right) as well as other eye conditions like astigmatism, retinopathy of prematurity (My eyesight is safe now, after a couple of surgeries to strengthen my retina) and nystagmus. Even though it's hard to see things from far away, I can see smaller details up close just fine.
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