Knoll — the fan page, by the fans

the second bench: eighty-four design-canvas panels off seventy-one drawings, live, and sitting on the paper as themselves — no panels, no cases, no handles. The bench moves like figma's canvas — hold the scroll wheel (or space) and drag to pan, scroll to pan, ctrl+scroll or pinch to zoom, shift 1 to fit the lot on screen. Drag the bare paper and you pull a band out instead: everything it touches is picked, shift-click adds one or drops one, and dragging any of them carries the lot. Hold ctrl and the hitbox stops being the box: what answers the pointer is what is drawn under it, so you can take one tree out of a crowd of them and the gaps between the branches belong to whatever is behind. The ? in the corner has the rest. Each feature is asleep until you click it, which is what keeps the wheel panning the bench instead of disappearing into it; drag it anywhere to move it, and esc or the pointer leaving puts it back to sleep. Its bottom-right corner re-cuts it — the box is a window with the drawing fitted into it, so a smaller box is the same drawing smaller rather than a cropped one, and nothing on this bench scrolls — and double-clicking that corner fits it back to its own drawing. The dock at the bottom draws on the paper itself; esc puts the pen down, and ctrl+z — or its undo button — takes back the last thing you moved or drew, whichever of the two it was. Its upload tool stands the tracing table up the left of the screen: lay a picture on it (or drag one straight onto the flat file at its foot), trace it, file it, and click the paper to stamp the tracing there; its sticker tool puts the sticker drawer in the same place, which holds the artwork that came WITH the bench — rummage, pick one out, and click the paper, or drag one straight onto it. Both panels are chrome, not scenery: they hold still while the bench moves under them. ctrl+c then ctrl+v copies whatever is picked (or awake) and pastes a working second one a nudge down-right. Right-click a feature for its menu: raise and lower step it over or under the next thing it overlaps, and delete takes it off the paper (ctrl+z brings it back).

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