More than 70 years ago Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka described a fascinating effect1,2: When a contiguous grey ring is placed on a background half of one shade of grey (different from the ring ...

Gestalt principles of perception are theories proposed by German psychologists in the 1920s to explain how people organize visual information 1. Gestalt is a German word meaning shape or form.

With the help of Adrian Koffka and Cynthia Phakos of Koffka/Phakos Design, the couple added a second story, which became their master suite and gym; created a children’s wing with den on the ...