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 Comic books and visual novels are difficult to translate into Braille; Usually, theyre novelized or retold in audio formats. But is it possible to tell a visual story using tactile means alone  A Berlin-based interaction design s stanley cup tudent named Philipp Meyer thinks so.     Working with a blind collaborator named Michael and NOTA, a Copenhagen-based institute for the blind, Meyer spent seven weeks prototyping and testing a tactile graphic novel thats completely without text.  I saw it as a challenge and stanley termosar  a chance to fathom the possibilities of tactile storytelling,  he explains.  My goal was to create a story that is equally explorable for people with and without eyesight.  Meyers book is called Life, and it tells the  heart-crushingly  simple story of, well, life. Using a Braille printer and a system of geometric shapes, the book tells the tale of the birth, life, and death of its  stanley thermobecher hero in a few short pages. Its a simple project, but it took weeks to refine the concept with the help of a handful of blind readers and the technical assistance of NOTA. And Meyer is quick to note that he doesn ;t see Life as an alternative to Braille鈥攊ts an experiment, plain and simple.  I want to point out that I don ;t know if this is the best or only way to create a tactile comic and if this comic works for every blind reader,  he explains.  It   an experiment inspired by the interviews with Michael and the feedback I got from him and the other readers.  Its fairly rare that design