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5th June 2001

War of the Worlds

Cover art A collection of 76 different cover designs. “Why The War of the Worlds? For a couple of reasons. First of all, it’s been in print for over one hundred years, so it has an extremely long history of interaction with society’s ideas on alien invasion,

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5th June 2001

Art, Design and Gestalt theory

“Gestalt psychology was founded in 1910 by three German psychologists, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler. The author discusses gestalt theory’s influence on modern art and design, describes its resemblance to Japanese-inspired theories of aesthetics and finds evidence of a mutual, if limited, interest between the gestalt psychologists and certain artists.”

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5th June 2001

Rudolf Arnheim: The Little Owl on the Shoulder of Athene

“Contending that ‘all perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention,’ [Rudolf Arnheim] attacked the established assumptions that words, not images, are the primary ingredients of thinking, and that language precedes perception.”

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5th June 2001

Then, Now, Next: Five Perspectives on the Web Development Industry

“The feverish euphoria over Internet-based companies has worn off. In light of fallen stock prices and scarce venture capital, now seems like a good time for reflection. In order to gain some perspective, I thought it might be wise to email some of the Web’s well-known mentors: Jeffrey Zeldman, Todd Purgason, Lynda Weinman, Jakob Nielsen, and David Siegel. I wasn’t disappointed. In return I got perspective-and then some!”

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5th June 2001

Final Week of Tomalak’s Realm

“For the past month or two, I’ve been thinking about the future of the site and I’ve recently decided to retire the site and to make the last entry this Friday. I have a few things on my plate and one involves heading back to school to finish my degree and the other being a possible business venture (unrelated to the site).” It’s no substitute for the mighty Tomalak’s, but you might want to check out our bBlog if you have a need for useful business intelligence linking. Update: 16 Jun 2001: Tomalak’s is not shutting down. Yes!

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