Monday Eye Candy: Design Meets Disability

In our last Monday Eye Candy post of 2011, we featured photographs from Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht's Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space. For the first Monday Eye Candy of 2012, we present images from Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin. Design Meets Disability contains 114 color illustrations to show us how design and disability can inspire each other. Why, Pullin asks, shouldn’t hearing aids be as fashionable as eyewear? Here are a few illustrations from the book (click on each image to enlarge):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a memorable Cutler and Gross advertisement from the early 1990s
Photo: Platon, courtesy of Cutler and Gross

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aimee Mullins’s carved wooden legs
Photo: Aimee Mullins

 

 

 

 

 

 

chairs designed by a diversity of international designers for the nextmaruni collection
Photo: Yoneo Kawabe © nextmaruni

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tissot Silen-T tactile watch
Photo: courtesy of Tissot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mebox storage with perforated dots that can be punched out to create letters or icons, designed and manufactured by GTF
Photo: courtesy of GTF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

message wall for O2 by Durrell Bishop and Tom Hulbert at IDEO
Photo: Thomas Stewart, courtesy of IDEO