In late summer 2021, Thinkable CEO Jaap Breider was visited by journalist Eskandar Abadi and filmmaker Shahab Kermani. They produced a video for Deutsche Welle TV (Persian department). Jaap was accompanied and interviewed during a full day in his house and company headquarters in Huissen (The Netherlands).
Besides receiving his guests, talking about himself and Thinkable, Jaap explains the basics of tactile graphics to the interviewer. Being a blind man himself, the interviewer is clearly experiencing something completely new: Jaap draws or plots graphics for him while he also explains the “codes” behind certain ways of drawing from the visual world.
It is these kinds of moments that keep Jaap inspired for decades. With Thinkable, he constantly works on innovations to give ever more visually impaired people access to tactile graphic information.
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho_Lg3yekKE