many designed objects must be grasped or handled as well as seen to be experienced. with this in mind, create six different textures on a surface that feel as well as appear different from one another.

i was browsing the internet while particularly sensitive to texture. i immediately noticed my keyboard. it was an older keyboard ripe with crumbs, hair, oils, and various spills. i imagined a new keyboard whose keys enable a user to experience, one at a time, various textures while typing. this project resulted.

as a functional prototype i suppose it serves its purpose. the textures are arranged such that the most common digraphs and trigraphs in the english language exhibit as wide a range of textures as possible. for example, the textures associated with the common trigraph t-h-e purposefully differ from one another. try spelling your name; you'll likely strike a wide sample of textures.

as a project, the work lacks process. one might expect (correctly) that the majority of the design effort occurred in my head rather than in the field. research demonstrates that design efforts that live and fester in the head prove inferior to those born from a conscientious attempted to explore with the hands.