Exploring the limits of type design, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has developed Braille Neue, an attempt to combine Braille with the English and Japanese alphabets. This is no easy feat.

When Amit Patel lost his sight because of an illness a decade ago—early in his career as a trauma doctor at an emergency room in the U.K.—he struggled to learn Braille with traditional tools. He ...

Graeme Douglas has received research funding from a variety of research funding organisations, including: Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), The Nuffield Foundation, Thomas Pocklington ...

Japanese designer Kosuke Takahashi created a new font called Braille Neue that overlays English and Japanese alphabets with Braille, in an attempt to create more synchronicity and co-use between the ...

Although the way we read printed or written text hasn’t changed much over the last 600 years, the media used for carrying the words have evolved significantly. From animal skin and waxed wooden ...