Geneva Business Performance – website
I have two related passions in my life – art and website design. I would like to share with you a recently completed “week-end” web design project which was worked on in conjunction with the Tatiana Coursoisier for her management consulting and business education company “Geneva Business Performance”. https://businessperformance.ch This project was quite challenging but…
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“Tenderness” – SOLD
The method of painting I used is based on the methods of Flemish Masters of the 16th- 17th centuries such as Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. This method develops a painting from a detailed drawing through seven stages to the completed painting. It took me more then six months to complete the painting……
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“The Way To Ynys Afallon” – SOLD
What if there, beyond the familiar three dimensional world, is another mysterious fourth face, revealing other spaces filled with wonders. And in that deep unknown is no grief, nor senility, nor deception, and to get there, one must overcome the strange and dangerous way which can be done only by being sacred…
My Oil Paintings
These are some of my oil paintings, and some of them are sold and they gratify houses in France, Wales, England and Switzerland, some of them are still with me, because I truly love them, some of them are still work in progress. …
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Haunted London: Highgate Cemetery West
Exclusively for Halloween…Would you like to see real vampires? Then take a visit to North London. One place has them for sure… Welcome, of course, for a while, to purportedly haunted Highgate Cemetery West…where on 21 December 1969 David Farrant, a member of a group of young people interested in the occult, spent the night……
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Mind Games Behind Usability and Writing for Web: Zeigarnik effect
What is the human mind ? Is it the abyss or the ultimate organized structure? Or the abyss and the ultimate organized structure all in one? So, to understand it, or, at least, merely try to grasp a tiny bit of these sophisticated movements of the human psyche in a casual life and daily work we…
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Website Barber – the Occam’s Razor Principle
Occam’s razor is a principle of economy or a principle of concision. A website creation process includes many tasks and sometimes we face some problems, then we must narrow them down, for the reason of time , budget or any other reason and here the Occam’s razor principle could be very helpful. It is an intellectual…
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Colours are… the silent stimulus
The first impression is enormously powerful! Colours are the first thing that a website user sees and they are virtually the silent stimulus of the first impression. Colour is a very tricky thing to explore, simply because they change under different light conditions, there are some discrepancies in perception between different age groups, and nobody really has control over their appearance…
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Halo Effect & Devil Effect in web design
I have always been deeply interested in how visual aspects influence the human behaviour.In this article I would like to dig deeper into the subject : how does the visual appeal of a website affects its users decisions. There is a very interesting social-psychology phenomenon known as the “Halo Effect” where people’s judgments are based on their…
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Infographic in the raw: strip the data down!
The main reason why I wrote this article is that I HATE infographics! I hate infographics as they are presented nowadays online. And I really don’t see any point why the infographics make such a big buzz around the Internet. Who really looks at them? Or are they just easy to pin ? This type…
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