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Creative Dev
React
Shopify
Prismic
WebGL
Stone work by New York artist Matthew Fisher, on the web
Design: CUSP
View live: mfisher.com
First site for artist Matthew Fisher — the start of a longer run that produced two more builds and a few hard technical answers.
Matthew Fisher cuts stone in New York. His pieces have shown in On The Verge and at The Noguchi Museum. He wanted the objects to lead; the site’s details only wake up when you start to move.
More than 50,000 views in the first 60 days; some collections sold out. Matthew came back for two more builds: a site for the second collection, and the immersive room later named The Quarry House.

A React storefront talks to Shopify’s Storefront API for cart, products and most copy. That split lets the look and the galleries go further than a stock theme, while checkout still behaves like a shop.
Visual problems get studio-written tools. The two we reach for most: SAW scroll and the frame predictor.
SAW scroll sits under almost every build and gets faster each time we ship. It keeps components in step, locks HTML to WebGL, listens to scroll, and only paints what is on screen.
The piece we still talk about is a predictor we wrote: it watches the last moves and preloads what is about to enter the frame. Fast galleries with 4K stills — Matthew’s site especially — would otherwise hitch. The predictor keeps every tile visible even when someone tears through the scroll.

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