Category Archives: Tactile Images

Musée Bonnard – French Riviera -2017

December 13, 2017Contrasted Images, Design for all, Inclusion, Tactile Images, Tactile Paintingstactilestudio

“Long live the painting!” Read More

Mucem – Museum of the European and Mediterranean Civilisations – 2013-17

December 13, 2017Architecture Models, Design for all, Multi sensory devices, Orientation plans, Tactile Images, Touchy artefactstactilestudio

The collaboration with the Mucem is an ambitious project spanning over the last 4 years and still ongoing. The Mucem is highly involved in making its venue one the most accessible in Europe. Read More

Guise’s Familistere – a comprehensive accessibility chain project

October 30, 2017Architecture Models, Design for all, Orientation plans, Tactile Imagestactilestudio

Guise’s Familistère is a complex of buildings built by the manufacturer and utopian socialist Jean-Baptiste André Godin in the mid-19th century. It is considered as one of the first (if not the first) social housing construction at all. The design solutions imagined were used more than 50 years later by architects such as Le Corbusier. Read More

Le Pantheon, home of the French great personalities

September 1, 2017Architecture Models, Multi sensory devices, Orientation plans, Tactile Images3D architecture Model, 3D Manufacturing, Braille, centre des monuments Nationaux, Heritage, Pantheon, tactile stationtactilestudio

Urban Gardening in Parc de la Villette – Paris – 2013-2017

August 8, 2017Multi sensory devices, Orientation plans, Tactile Images, Touchy artefactstactilestudio

The Parc de la Villette brought in several urban gardening projects along the exposition «Le jardin planétaire». It was the starting point to raise awareness among citizens to ecological goals and sustainability. Tactile Studio designed tactile boards to fit into this paradise of nature. They were also formulated as an invitation to look around and observe the natural environment. Read More

“The Painter’s Worshop” Gustave Courbet – Musée d’Orsay – Paris

February 1, 2017Multi sensory devices, Tactile ImagesAudiodescription, Braille, Exhibition Design, Multi Sensory, Multimodal Experience, Tactile Devices, Tactile Imagestactilestudio

The tactile exploration of the painting « L’Atelier du peintre » is part of a sensory multimodal experience. It took place during the restoration of the masterpiece in 2016-17, inside the museum itself and is now touring. Read More

Petite Galerie du Louvre – Temporary exhibitions 2017-18

October 10, 2016Contrasted Images, Design for all, Inclusion, Tactile Images, Tactile PaintingsLouvre, Museum, Paristactilestudio

La Petite Galerie du Louvre : a new place to understand and marvel Read More

French Resistance at the Pantheon mausoleum – Paris – 2015

September 1, 2015Tactile Images, Touchy artefactsAudiodescription, Braille, Exhibition Design, Pantheon, Tactile Images, Tactile Modeltactilestudio

In 2015, France honoured four members of the French Resistance with a ceremony at the Pantheon mausoleum in Paris. Read More

Louvre – Petite Galerie – Exhibition “Founding Myths. From Hercules to Darth Vader” – 2015

August 4, 2015Tactile ImagesChildren, Learning Tool, Louvre, Myths, Petite Galerie, Tactile Book, Tactile Image, Tactile Writing, Visitor Experiencetactilestudio

The Petite Galerie du Louvre is the museum’s center for learning and adresses children and youngsters, their parents and educators alike. It is here that a sample of the collection is put together for better understanding. Tactile Studio was asked to conceive a tactile book for the blind and visually impaired visitors. In 2015 the Petite Galerie’s exhibition «Founding Myths. From Hercules to Darth Vader» (Oct. 12, 2015 – July 4, 2016) illustrated how artists around the world have reanimated old myths in painting, sculpture, cinema, music and more. The tactile book is subtle, gentle to touch and durable, thanks to tearproof material used. Read More

Museum Cognacq-Jay – Paris – 2015

August 1, 2015Tactile ImagesExhibition Design, Sevres Manufacture, Tactile Images, Tactile Objectstactilestudio

With the exposition „Thé, Café ou Chocolat?“ (2015) the Cognacq-Jay Museum traced the beginning and the rapid success of cultivating «exotic» drinks among the nobels of the 18th-century society. Our team conceived objects that gives rhythm to the exhibition. A tactile information sheet describes the canvases and engravings exhibited. Read More