When you live with a chronic illness like rheumatoid arthritis, going to all of your different health care appointments can easily feel like a full time job. And to make the situation even more complicated, everything is usually in a different place. You have to go one place to see your rheumatologist, another place to [...]
A few weeks ago, Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy wrote a post about Arthritis Friendly Packaging. In this post, I described my personal experiences with Universal Design – which is the idea that all types of design should incorporate the needs of a wide range of users. I also went on to describe many of the difficulties [...]
All too often, we hear about dreams being compromised due to the limitations of living with rheumatoid arthritis. Sometimes, it just seems like “what we can do” does not quite match up with “what we want to do”.
When the arthritis begins to affect our hands and fingers, it’s even easier to start to get scared [...]
Rheumatoid Arthritis Guy was recently contacted by a group of graduate industrial design students from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, asking if he could provide some feedback on living with rheumatoid arthritis – with an emphasis on packaging design. I was more than happy to oblige.
When I was a graduate design student, [...]
Site Unseen 2009: (Dis)abling Conditions
A Site-Specific Performance Event Takes Over the Chicago Cultural Center November 9, 2009, 6-9 pm
For one night only on Monday, November 9, 2009, from 6-9 p.m., the Chicago Cultural Center will host Site Unseen, a site-specific performance event featuring theater, dance, music, and visual art by individual artists and ensembles of local and international acclaim. [...]
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