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Author/Editor: Ric Holland Publisher: Systems Design Limited Editorial Assistance: Sabine Mende Production Assistance: Izumi Tosa, Heidi Thurner and Mig Holland
© 2009 Ric Holland/Systems Design Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanical, without the prior written consent of the publisher. All artworks are copyright 2009 by the credited artists, their representative or copyright holders. Every effort has been made to ensure the credits and contact details listed are correct, however, if any errors have occurred the editors and publisher disclaim any liability and respectfully direct people to the website www.artofwa. com for any updated information on or corrections.
This book is sponsored by:
Contactinformation: www.wacom.com
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Technical and Web Support: Brendan Holland, Ryan Farrow Coconut Graphics Transcrip tion Services: Su Pollard -Smart Docs Pty Ltd Cover images by the following artists – Ron Cobb, John Derry, Nick Pill, Steve Stamatiadis, Matt Taylor, Man Qin, David Davidson, Fernanda Cohen, Evan Shipard, Lok Jansen, Raziman Baharudin, Robin Preston, Saul Zanolari, Yongkiat Karnchanapayap & Onuma Chintanasathit, Jean-Luc Touillon, Waheed Nasir.
Special thanks to: Laurence Ng, John Derry, Dr Phillip George, Masahiko Yamada, Shigeki Komiyama, Noboru Fujisaki, David Spencer, Stefan Kirmse, Han Stoffels, Scott Rawlings and many more people throughout Wacom, you know who you are, thanks for your support and encouragement.
��� � �� �� 2009 First Edition Published by Systems Design Limited The Publisher of IdN Magazine 4/F Jonsim Place, 228 Queen’s Road East Wanchai, Hong Kong T: +852 2528 5744 F: +852 2529 1296 E:
[email protected] W: www.idnworld.com
Author/Editor: Ric Holland Publisher: Systems Design Limited Editorial Assistance: Sabine Mende Production Assistance: Izumi Tosa, Heidi Thurner and Mig Holland
© 2009 Ric Holland/Systems Design Limited. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically or mechanical, without the prior written consent of the publisher. All artworks are copyright 2009 by the credited artists, their representative or copyright holders. Every effort has been made to ensure the credits and contact details listed are correct, however, if any errors have occurred the editors and publisher disclaim any liability and respectfully direct people to the website www.artofwa. com for any updated information on or corrections.
This book is sponsored by:
Technical and Web Support: Brendan Holland, Ryan Farrow Coconut Graphics Transcrip tion Services: Su Pollard -Smart Docs Pty Ltd
Contactinformation: www.wacom.com
[email protected]
Cover images by the following artists – Ron Cobb, John Derry, Nick Pill, Steve Stamatiadis, Matt Taylor, Man Qin, David Davidson, Fernanda Cohen, Evan Shipard, Lok Jansen, Raziman Baharudin, Robin Preston, Saul Zanolari, Yongkiat Karnchanapayap & Onuma Chintanasathit, Jean-Luc Touillon, Waheed Nasir.
Special thanks to: Laurence Ng, John Derry, Dr Phillip George, Masahiko Yamada, Shigeki Komiyama, Noboru Fujisaki, David Spencer, Stefan Kirmse, Han Stoffels, Scott Rawlings and many more people throughout Wacom, you know who you are, thanks for your support and encouragement.
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Welcome to Art of Making Marks, a comprehens comprehensive ive history of expressive digital mark making, told through many conversations I have had with Industry Pioneers and Creative Innovators - people who I believe have made significant contributions to the development of technologies and creative techniques, and have helped form the digital creative industries we recognise today. today. Read about the early introductions of pen/ Yamada, and early partner technologies like Quantel’s tablets from Wacom’s President and CEO Masahiko Yamada, Quantel’s Paintbox systems and the introduction of PC based image manipulation software that got it all started back then and also take away rare insights on possible future computing technologies. Journey with pioneers John Derry, Derry, Mark Zimmer and Tom Hedge who developed Fractal Design Painter. John Derry weaves a story of art and technology development in a way that only John can. Russell Brown the Creative Director of Adobe since it’s early beginnings shows his humorous side and serious depth of knowledge to bring us up to the present state of play. Be taken behind the scenes through my interviews with Keshen Teo, Teo, designer of Wacom’s new branding while at Wolff Olins agency and Jeremy Sutton, who gives us his views as a portrait painter crossing back and forth between traditional painting and digital tools. Be inspired and excited by some future visions from Bill Buxton who pioneered the concept of multi-touch user interfaces and was chief scientist at Alias. Now with Microsoft, he is behind exciting developments with Surface technology and Tablet PCs. Duncan Brinsmead a chief scientist at Autodesk, developed ‘Brushes’ in Maya and he continues to push the creative boundaries in CG (Computer Graphics) for the benefit of movie audiences around the globe. The chapter on Creative Innovators presents a series of interviews I have had with people like Ron Cobb to name just one more amazing person to read about in this book, representa representative tive of his creative professional professional field ‘Concept Art’. The diagram on the contents page might help to illustrate the creative professional world. Note the lines are blurred as everything now is connected digitally and people cross over from one field to the other in their everyday job tasks.
With a global explosion in the production and consump- This book endeavours to showcase some of the world’s tion of digital images, photos, music, interactive games foremost digital pioneers and creative innovators who and video content we have become immersed in our use these digital tools to make their expressive marks. digital lifestyles. It will inform you about the history of digital mark making and provide some useful insights and inspiration from the Amongst a host of devices such as mobile phones, MP3 close up and personal perspective of people who ar e players, digital cameras and computers of all shapes passionate about creativity and love what they do. and sizes, sits a range of tools from Wacom called pressure sensitive pen/tablets and screen tablets. Whether or not you are a creative professional, a dedicated enthusiast, a student or you have never even heard These humble digital tools enable millions of people all of making expressive use of Wacom pressure sensitive around the world to write, draw, paint, create and inter- pen/tablets, this book will open your mind to the creative act with computer devices, creatively and intuitively. professional’s best-kept secret.
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Welcome to Art of Making Marks, a comprehens comprehensive ive history of expressive digital mark making, told through many conversations I have had with Industry Pioneers and Creative Innovators - people who I believe have made significant contributions to the development of technologies and creative techniques, and have helped form the digital creative industries we recognise today. today. Read about the early introductions of pen/ Yamada, and early partner technologies like Quantel’s tablets from Wacom’s President and CEO Masahiko Yamada, Quantel’s Paintbox systems and the introduction of PC based image manipulation software that got it all started back then and also take away rare insights on possible future computing technologies. Journey with pioneers John Derry, Derry, Mark Zimmer and Tom Hedge who developed Fractal Design Painter. John Derry weaves a story of art and technology development in a way that only John can. Russell Brown the Creative Director of Adobe since it’s early beginnings shows his humorous side and serious depth of knowledge to bring us up to the present state of play. Be taken behind the scenes through my interviews with Keshen Teo, Teo, designer of Wacom’s new branding while at Wolff Olins agency and Jeremy Sutton, who gives us his views as a portrait painter crossing back and forth between traditional painting and digital tools. Be inspired and excited by some future visions from Bill Buxton who pioneered the concept of multi-touch user interfaces and was chief scientist at Alias. Now with Microsoft, he is behind exciting developments with Surface technology and Tablet PCs. Duncan Brinsmead a chief scientist at Autodesk, developed ‘Brushes’ in Maya and he continues to push the creative boundaries in CG (Computer Graphics) for the benefit of movie audiences around the globe. The chapter on Creative Innovators presents a series of interviews I have had with people like Ron Cobb to name just one more amazing person to read about in this book, representa representative tive of his creative professional professional field ‘Concept Art’. The diagram on the contents page might help to illustrate the creative professional world. Note the lines are blurred as everything now is connected digitally and people cross over from one field to the other in their everyday job tasks.
With a global explosion in the production and consump- This book endeavours to showcase some of the world’s tion of digital images, photos, music, interactive games foremost digital pioneers and creative innovators who and video content we have become immersed in our use these digital tools to make their expressive marks. digital lifestyles. It will inform you about the history of digital mark making and provide some useful insights and inspiration from the Amongst a host of devices such as mobile phones, MP3 close up and personal perspective of people who ar e players, digital cameras and computers of all shapes passionate about creativity and love what they do. and sizes, sits a range of tools from Wacom called pressure sensitive pen/tablets and screen tablets. Whether or not you are a creative professional, a dedicated enthusiast, a student or you have never even heard These humble digital tools enable millions of people all of making expressive use of Wacom pressure sensitive around the world to write, draw, paint, create and inter- pen/tablets, this book will open your mind to the creative act with computer devices, creatively and intuitively. professional’s best-kept secret.
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So my gratitude goes out to all those Industry Pioneers and Creative Innovators who made this book possible with their unique and insightful interviews. It surely is my great pleasure indeed to know them all. Many of the beautiful images in this book come from top professionals in their fields. However I would like to point out that creativity is for everyone and a Wacom pen/tablet is just a device to help break down any creative barriers to self expression, letting loose a primal human urge to make expressive marks to illustrate emotion, communicate ideas or just as often as not to have fun. Wacom pen/tablets for me have always been the link between man and machine for all creative disciplines and now even for not so creative industries like medicine, finance, geology, construction, etc, and so the list has actually become endless. Maybe that’s my next book! Don’t take my word for it though - please read on and let these stories inspire you to pursue your creative dreams, thus creating your own digital style in life. The Showcase towards the back of this book highlights my point by mixing up Professional, Semi Professional and Amateur art works done by artists and designers from different parts of the world and diverse cultural backgrounds. You can find extended content and interviews at my blog site www.artofwa.com - look for the URL addresses throughout the book.
art and graphic design in the late 70s and then as the tide of digital technologies rolled in through the 80s and 90s I just kept soaking it all up and pushed the technology to achieve the results that fuelled my 25 year long design career. I ran my own design business Extreme Digital through most of the 80s and 90s. Joined MetaCreations Corporation before their melt down and then was hired as Creative Director for IBM’s e-Business Innovation Centres in Asia Pacific before the Dot Com bubble burst. Since then I’ve continued to enjoy a rich and diverse career in digital media consulting and teaching but with always more to learn. Drawing and painting is still in my blood and so working at Wacom has been satisfying my desire to get back to those roots. Art of Making Marks is also the title of my PhD Thesis I intend to complete over the next couple of years. Email me at
[email protected] if you would like to comment or contribute. My intention is to delve even deeper into the concept of expressive mark making, starting from the early cave paintings and progressing through time to show how expressive mark making techniques have evolved with the way humans communicate and illustrate concepts. I will document the refinement of various tools to capture expressive hand motions from people with highly developed motor skills and how that has then been translated into the digital tools of today. I pose the Just so you have a little background knowledge question, have we reached the point where it’s just as about me, most recently I have been working as natural to be expressive with digital tools as it is with a full time employee with Wacom but have spent physical art tools and techniques? My goal with this many more years working as an Artist/Illustrator, particular book, Art of Making Marks is to lay down Graphic Designer, Art Director and Creative Director some foundations on which you can draw your own using Wacom pen/tablets along with a host of conclusions, opening up your senses to many new technologies. I was traditionally trained in commercial creative possibilities.
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So my gratitude goes out to all those Industry Pioneers and Creative Innovators who made this book possible with their unique and insightful interviews. It surely is my great pleasure indeed to know them all. Many of the beautiful images in this book come from top professionals in their fields. However I would like to point out that creativity is for everyone and a Wacom pen/tablet is just a device to help break down any creative barriers to self expression, letting loose a primal human urge to make expressive marks to illustrate emotion, communicate ideas or just as often as not to have fun. Wacom pen/tablets for me have always been the link between man and machine for all creative disciplines and now even for not so creative industries like medicine, finance, geology, construction, etc, and so the list has actually become endless. Maybe that’s my next book! Don’t take my word for it though - please read on and let these stories inspire you to pursue your creative dreams, thus creating your own digital style in life. The Showcase towards the back of this book highlights my point by mixing up Professional, Semi Professional and Amateur art works done by artists and designers from different parts of the world and diverse cultural backgrounds. You can find extended content and interviews at my blog site www.artofwa.com - look for the URL addresses throughout the book.
art and graphic design in the late 70s and then as the tide of digital technologies rolled in through the 80s and 90s I just kept soaking it all up and pushed the technology to achieve the results that fuelled my 25 year long design career. I ran my own design business Extreme Digital through most of the 80s and 90s. Joined MetaCreations Corporation before their melt down and then was hired as Creative Director for IBM’s e-Business Innovation Centres in Asia Pacific before the Dot Com bubble burst. Since then I’ve continued to enjoy a rich and diverse career in digital media consulting and teaching but with always more to learn. Drawing and painting is still in my blood and so working at Wacom has been satisfying my desire to get back to those roots. Art of Making Marks is also the title of my PhD Thesis I intend to complete over the next couple of years. Email me at
[email protected] if you would like to comment or contribute. My intention is to delve even deeper into the concept of expressive mark making, starting from the early cave paintings and progressing through time to show how expressive mark making techniques have evolved with the way humans communicate and illustrate concepts. I will document the refinement of various tools to capture expressive hand motions from people with highly developed motor skills and how that has then been translated into the digital tools of today. I pose the Just so you have a little background knowledge question, have we reached the point where it’s just as about me, most recently I have been working as natural to be expressive with digital tools as it is with a full time employee with Wacom but have spent physical art tools and techniques? My goal with this many more years working as an Artist/Illustrator, particular book, Art of Making Marks is to lay down Graphic Designer, Art Director and Creative Director some foundations on which you can draw your own using Wacom pen/tablets along with a host of conclusions, opening up your senses to many new technologies. I was traditionally trained in commercial creative possibilities.
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