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Wacom Connected Ink Tokyo & Digital Calligraphy

1/11/2016

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Digital Ink - moving forward

Another  Connected Ink event was recently  held in Tokyo  by Wacom for the promotion of digital ink.  ​Nearly 200 industry leaders from various global technology and stationery companies took part in this event. During the event,  Wacom  CEO Masahiko Yamada announced the establishment of the  Digital Stationery Consortium, Inc., whose  mission is to create a movement with cross-industry partners to make digital ink widely adopted and to promote the evolution of smart digital stationery.
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Masahiko Yamada, President and CEO of Wacom giving opening speech
One of the presenters was Kuretake ,   a famous  Japanese stationery  brand  whose root is in making traditional Eastern ink and related art supply. Mr. Suguru Takemoto from Kuretake Marketing talked about the "History of Handwriting – roots of ink” and  ​Expresii  was used for digital calligraphy demonstration during  his  presentation on stage:  
Expresii was also used to demo Wacom's AES pens, which are found in today's various Windows tablets, including the HP Elite x2:
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Expresii used in Wacom's demo booth (Event photos from Connected Ink website)
Check out  the AES pen ID demo and more from our previous blog entry on  CES Asia & Connected Ink Shanghai.

Digital Ink Calligraphy - Pen or Brush?

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Today 'digital ink' is often referred to as the digital counterpart of physical ink used with a pen. It's often rendered as rather uniform-looking lines. 
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However, if you mention '墨' (the Chinese character for 'ink') to a Japanese or a Chinese, the first thing they think of is the ink used in their traditional art forms, which inspired great artists like Picasso and Matisse.

'Brush Calligraphy' is  one of the most important art forms in East  Asian countries like China, Japan and Korea. For thousands of years, East Asians have been using brushes instead of pens to write. For lack of a better word, I could only translate an East Asian Brush as 'writing brush' - because it's designed specifically for expressive lines as required in Eastern calligraphy.  Another difference  between Western and Eastern calligraphy is the paper used.  Eastern art papers are absorbent  and you can get a wide range of effects depending on the paper type and how diluted the ink is.  There are even a few types of ink  that you can choose from giving you even more variations.

In the future, we might create  a new app specific for this ancient Eastern art form, making it easy for users to use subtle ink effects like  these:

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And in response to Wacom's effort in promoting digital  stationery, here is a calligraphy piece  '文房具', which means  Stationery in Japanese, done by our Dr.  Nelson Chu earlier:
Let us know if you'd like to see an  app specific for Eastern  calligraphy  from us.
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