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We build distinctive identities and make websites and digital products easier to use. Explore the 40 principles behind our work, free to use in yours.
Ten disciplines. Forty laws. Published in full.
Not content marketing — the standard we review our own work against. Every principle carries its reasoning, a do-and-avoid list, and a test you can run yourself.
3D & Spatial / Principle 02
Make scale understandable
Use consistent scene units and recognisable context when size matters.
Explore this principle →How to apply it
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Keep scene units consistent
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Include context when size matters
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Provide dimensions when accuracy is required
Check your work
Ask someone unfamiliar with the model to estimate its size. If their answer is far from the intended scale, add clearer context or dimensions.
The work of applying them.
Seven disciplines we take on commercially. Every engagement opens with a review, because the stated problem and the actual problem differ more often than not.
Projects, and the reasoning behind them.
Most studios keep their ethics informal — which means they get negotiated away one deadline at a time.
So we wrote ours down. Eight clauses, versioned in public, so that saying no is a matter of policy rather than a matter of nerve.
Essays, teardowns and field notes.
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