What is it like to be Dyslexic?

My Contributions

Research and concept

Copywriting

Storyboarding / Visualisation

Design & Motion

June 2016

There are many organisations who work to help individuals with dyslexia and the daily struggles that they face. I, as a dyslexia student (at the time of creating this project), wanted to take a different approach with this project. I wanted to communicate to individuals that do not suffer from dyslexia, I wanted to find a way to communicate to them and show them exactly what it is.

My first thought was to create something print based, whether this was a poster or leaflet, anything. But, I eventually discovered that this would have been the most ineffective solution possible. I would have been giving people a piece of printed design, with jumbled letters, bad spelling and other dyslexia symptoms and essentially telling them "here...read this badly".

As a result, I have created an exaggerated, kinetic typography animation describing and showcasing what it is like to have dyslexia, using a high contrast, minimalist colour pallet that people with dyslexia struggle with the most, paired with the font 'Garamond', a serif font that a majority of dyslexic people may struggle to read.

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