“There is some truth in the notion that the paintings are to the drawings as rhetoric to is to reality. We tend to forget the extent to which great artists like Leonardo and Dürer saw more vividly and more personally then they painted. Certainly from the Renaissance to the end of the 18th century there was enormous pressure on artists to paint the ideal, not the real. With few exceptions, Rembrandt being the greatest, artists did not paint what they saw but what they wished to see or even what their patrons wished to see.”

“The St. Louis Group for Information Architecture is pleased to announce an interactive prototyping IA session: Thursday, January 24 at 7 p.m., at the offices of XPLANE, 809 Geyer Ave. (in Soulard). Attendees will work in groups to rapidly create prototypes and a solution to an Information Architecture problem. (The specific task will be announced at the beginning of the meeting.) It will be a great experience to learn more about IA, work with others and get hands-on experience with IA issues. This meeting is open to all. An informal cocktail hour will follow afterwards at Norton’s. Hope to see you this Thursday!”

“Founded in July 1997 by a group of visual effects and animation professionals, Visual Magic Magazine is one of the Internet’s most popular online magazines devoted to 3D animation and visual effects.”

An uncommonly beautiful collection of photos by Dean Allen. I could look at these all day.

“Today more and more companies are realizing that building customer loyalty (and profitability) takes more than a flashy website. With competition a mere click away, businesses are finally understanding that Quality of Experience (QoE) is critical to success. Customers, and we use the term to mean customers, suppliers, partners, employees, indeed all business stakeholders, demand an integrated, transparent, and accountable approach spanning the entire digital value-chain.”

“The Visual Resources Association is devoted to advancing knowledge, research, and education in the field of visual information resources. VRA advocates and promotes a spirit of cooperation among its members and with related professional organizations. If you are interested in issues related to the study of, access to, and management of images in any media, we encourage you to join our organization.”

“Psychologist George Miller published the original study in 1956. Since then, the (7±2) rule has been cited frequently by interface designers. A closer reading shows that Miller makes no conclusions that can be directly applied to web navigation.”

“A new subscription-based service from the company that helped unleash the weblogging phenomenon. Blogger Pro is for users who are willing to pay for increased reliability, higher performance, new tools, and advanced features and flexibility. Regular Blogger will continue to be available and free.”

“Over the years, there have been more than a few misconceptions about Macs. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular ones…”

“PICTOPLASMA presents the first global exhibition of contemporary character design… [a] collection of over 3300 contemporary character designs from 359 artists, designers and companies world wide.”

“Newspaper writers and editors like to pack as much information into a sentence as possible. But packing extraneous information into a sentence, just to achieve a knowing tone, reduces clarity and can drive readers away. [Here’s] how to spot problem sentences and what to do about them.”

“PICTOPLASMA presents the first global exhibition of contemporary character design… [a] collection of over 3300 contemporary character designs from 359 artists, designers and companies world wide.”

“In today’s cooled-down economic climate, with Web project budgets under increasing scrutiny and many in-house Web teams feeling the fiscal chill, managers are asking tougher questions about the return on investment (ROI) of Web initiatives.”

“In today’s cooled-down economic climate, with Web project budgets under increasing scrutiny and many in-house Web teams feeling the fiscal chill, managers are asking tougher questions about the return on investment (ROI) of Web initiatives.”

“In today’s cooled-down economic climate, with Web project budgets under increasing scrutiny and many in-house Web teams feeling the fiscal chill, managers are asking tougher questions about the return on investment (ROI) of Web initiatives.”