[Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille bracelet wins People's Design Award - Core77

[Rovig, Lorraine]

My nephew in Minnesota is in industrial design courses. He sent me a
link to this interesting bit of news from "Core 77" which is "a design
magazine and resource."  And how about this?! The explanation of  the
bracelet uses all NFB wording about the Braille crisis.  This email has
this order to the data below:

 

Jewelry maker Website is http://braillejewelry.blogspot.com
<http://braillejewelry.blogspot.com/>   (includes link to a video of
Ligon accepting the award and her speech).

Award site URL and the lead-in paragraph with just the facts. The full
article is very long and rather interesting.

My description of the bracelet.

A photo of the bracelet

The "Core 77" short article

 

[paragraph from the Award site at URL: 
http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=137
25406&message_id=1135128&user_id=Cooper&group_id=530405 ]: The
Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum presented its fifth
People's Design Award to the Braille Alphabet Bracelet Thursday, Oct.
14, at its 11th annual National Design Awards gala in New York. White
House Deputy Social Secretary Ebs Burnoughand fashion designer Cynthia
Rowley announced the winning design and presented the award to Leslie
Ligon, designer of At First Sight Braille Jewelry.

 

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/braille_bracelet_wins_peoples_
design_award_17678.asp 

 

DESCRIPTION: The article has a photo of two of the bracelets. The 26
letters of the alphabet in Braille circle one's wrist.  It seems to be
made of Braille-cell-shaped silver rectangles, each "cell" having
large-size, raised silver dots making one Braille Code letter on it.  As
it goes around the wrist, in between each "cell" is a narrow bar made of
the same silver, plus a wider bar between the Z at the end and the A at
the beginning of the alphabet.  On the inside of the bracelet, one sees
an incised and black-colored print alphabet letter (lower case) that
matches the Braille code letter on the outside. It must have a stretch
band; I don't see any clasp. It is pretty and looks like it would feel
good too. Here is the photo, followed by the article in Core 77:

 

 

Surprisingly, only 10% of blind people are Braille literate; but among
blind people holding down jobs, 90% of them can read and write Braille.
In other words, Braille literacy is clearly the way to go for those
seeking self-sufficiency.

To draw awareness to Braille literacy, Leslie Ligon designed the Braille
Alphabet Bracelet, a simple way to learn the system. The Cooper-Hewitt 
conferred the People's Design Award on Ligon's bracelet
<http://www.magnetmail.net/actions/email_web_version.cfm?recipient_id=13
725406&message_id=1135128&user_id=Cooper&group_id=530405>  earlier this
month. "I'm delighted that the public has chosen to honor the Braille
Alphabet Bracelet, which looks good, communicates without a glance and
feels great too!" said Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge.

Ligon is selling the Braille Alphabet Bracelet here
<http://braillejewelry.blogspot.com/> .

 

 

 

Lorraine

Help?: Text the word BLIND to 85944 to donate $10 to the NFB Imagination
Fund via your phone bill.

 

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