Open Montessori

Professional Project

Collected here is a series of photographs of designed and fabricated toys and crayons for visually impaired students. Funded by the non-profit Open Montessori in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the toys are meant to apply texture to color through sense of touch and pattern recognition.

At Colab XYZ, the team and I designed and produced a set of 3D printed colored blocks that each have a textured pattern associated with the color.

A wooden tray was created to hold the blocks, with each section having one of the textured patterns laser cut into the wood, so students would be able to know where each block went and continue to develop the correlation between the colors and the patterns.

Category

Year

Art Direction

2022

Colorful magnetic building blocks and matching pens arranged on a wooden floor, with a wooden guide strip and a purple LED strip in the background.
Colorful rubber pencils arranged in a row on a wooden surface, with a dark background.
Colorful 3D-printed geometric cubes and a wooden display tray with six compartments, each with intricate geometric patterns.
A person's hand holding a small, patterned wooden cube, with other similar cubes and a wooden box on a table, illuminated by colorful LED lights in the background.
Colorful plastic dominoes stacked and scattered on a wooden surface, with a background of similar dominoes arranged in a row.
A cardboard box with the words "open montessori" and a logo featuring the letters "OM" inside a circular design, partially visible green geometric object to the right.