Vision reveals what the touch already knows Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses touchvision
The quality of an architectural reality The quality of an architectural reality seems to depend fundamentally on peripheral vision, which enfolds the subject in the space...neurological investigations suggest that our processes of perception and cognition advance from the instantaneous grasp of entities towards the identification of details, rather than the other way around. Juhani Pallasmaa, The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses vision
The deception of color In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually. What counts here – first and last – is not so-called knowledge of so-called facts, but vision – seeing. Josef Albers, Interaction of Color visioncolor
Color Controversy A Website by Leo Robinovitch colorcontroversy.com So some friends and I were talking about colors one day and how we all see colors a bit differently and how that's neat. But is there a color that is interpreted differently THE MOST? Is there a most controversial color? Well, (if I contrive an ongoing survey and collect data about it), the answer is yes, of course! colorvisionperceptionmicrosites
Nototo An Application www.nototo.app The visual workspace for notes. Humans have incredible visual-spatial memory. Leverage that with Nototo. Spatial software referencesSpatial Interfaces notetakingmemoryspacevision
The Art of Looking Sideways A Book by Alan Fletcher www.alanfletcherarchive.com Cover art for Alan Fletcher's wonderfully expansive commonplace book. Thinking is drawing in your headThe picket fenceThe chicken was the egg's idea for getting more eggs The brain is wider than the skyWhat this site is graphicsdesigncommunicationcommonplacestylecollections
The picket fence There was a fence with spaces you could look through if you wanted to. An architect who saw this thing stood there one summer evening. Took out the spaces with great care and built a castle in the air. The fence was utterly dumbfounded, each post stood there with nothing round it. Christian Morgenstern www.andrew.cmu.edu spacearchitectureabsurdity