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Matthew Smith
Designer, inventor, and entrepreneur.
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You jacked my scroll bro
The problem with scroll jacking is not a technical one.
Motion in design is theatre. It predates movies and film. It is the playing out of actors on a stage. The focus of your attention on movement when rest was expected. A man holds his hands in the air, the fingers on his left hand twitch and twittle, which hand are you looking at — the left of course. Movement can be conveyed in visual language on a two dimensional surface through diagonals, or pressures of space, but brought to life film and video movement takes on a new dimension, and a new…
Matthew Smith
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It’s Time to Make Meaning-Machines
My friend Perry White rebuilds old canvas wrapped wooden canoes.
Matthew Smith
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Forced Reduced Formality
A small but helpful lesson in design and life.
Matthew Smith
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On an extremely serious note
This is the most serious cereal that ever serioused, seriously. No, for serious.
Matthew Smith
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