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

Thu Oct 21 13:36:15 UTC 2010

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From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] 
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:35 AM
To: 'Deborah Brown'; 'Reyazuddin, Yasmin'
Subject: FW: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille bracelet wins People's Design Award - Core77

I thought the NFB sold the braille bracelet. I have one and I never knew it had print on it.  Guess I will have to check and see if they are the same.

Terry

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From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rovig, Lorraine
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 9:22 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Braille bracelet wins People's Design Award - Core77

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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