Graffiti for the blind
A niche graffiti art movement is brewing out of Portland, Oregon and it involves stickers and braille.
Began in August 2007, Braille Graffiti is set on a mission to bring graffiti to the masses — that is, to those who can’t experience it by sight. Since graffiti is primarily been a visual medium, this this leaves a percentage of the population unable to experience graffiti because they cannot see. Braille Graffiti hopes to remedy this problem. [via]
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August 31st, 2007 at 4:46 am
This idea doesn’t make sense to me. I mean, yeah, the point of some graffiti is to get a message out there, but doesn’t a big part of graffiti have to do with the artistic-ness and style of writing? How do you stylize Braille? Are there different kind of fonts in Braille? (Braille is basically a formation of dots to symbolize letters and numbers, right?) And even if there are “fonts” in Braille, how the heck are blind people suppose to know where the Braille Graffiti is? Plus, they put them is stupid (like the side of a truck) and gross-to-touch places.
August 31st, 2007 at 8:58 am
yeah i was thinking the same thing.. what makes it graffiti? the fact that it’s somewhere it isn’t supposed to be? and yeah.. how are the blind supposed to know that it’s there.. they put it in places that are so obscure where most blind people would never touch.. haha they had a good idea.. but reality slapped it in the face and said “stop” hahahahaha.. plus most graffiti is so stylized that u can’t read the words unless you stop and look at it or if it’s just one word.. braille street poetry might be a better title for what they’re trying to do