The Blind Spots: A Matter of Persepctive
Experience Design
In this project, I took everyday, overlooked objects from the streets of New York City and elevated them into "readymade artifacts" by placing them in an exhibition setting — a space where people naturally slow down, pay close attention, and treat everything around them as precious. By creating a graphic intervention that changes how people relate to their environment, I used design to subtly influence the way they move through space.
I titled the exhibition The Blind Spots: A Matter of Perspective to highlight how just adding a small label and a simple white border can completely shift the way we think, behave, and see the everyday world around us.
• Inspiration
The initial inspiration came from the famous twit by a 17-year-old student, TJ Khayatan. TJ and his friends decided to put a pair of glasses on the floor of a gallery, then people’s reaction towards that object became completely different; they passed, looked, looked closer, reflected, thought and photographed.
(Credit: teejay (@TJCruda) May 24, 2016)
• Reference
The charts of the actual blind spot test were used as references for the posters.
