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As a kid, Charles Taylor was always interested in tech – though he didn’t know exactly what that meant, beyond translating to a job related to computer science. Growing up in Littleton, North Carolina – an actual little town with less than 700 people – he went to school with the same group of...

Ryogo Toyoda is now a successful 3D illustrator based in Tokyo, but he began with more traditional influences. Drawing comics and picture books since he was in kindergarten, he gradually added the manga style to his creations in elementary school. Growing up in Japan, video games and anime would...

Link Removed Chris working through the design process on a Surface Studio. Burton has been synonymous with the sport of snowboarding for decades. Since the company’s founding, Snowboarding has grown and evolved, even becoming an Olympic sport in 1998. Burton has been a key piece of the sport’s...

Link Removed We build Surface for people whose ideas are their currency. We want to empower people to create without limits by designing Surface to disappear into the background so that creators can immerse in their creative process. Whether it’s the high-resolution PixelSense displays that...

With the debut of Windows Ink in the Windows Anniversary Update, we introduced simultaneous pen and touch as the dawn of a revolutionary change in interacting with Windows. In our blog post, we discuss how you can use the APIs that you are already familiar with for touch to handle both touch and...

Using a pen and computer has an interesting history that goes farther back than you’d think. In 1888, the first patent for a “electric stylus device for capturing handwriting” was issued to Elisha Gray for the Telautograph. In fact, pen input was being used 20 years before mouse and GUI input...

“Surface — like fashion — is a blend of art and business,” according to Skimm’r (frequent reader of theSkimm), fashion tech entrepreneur and Surface fan Amanda Curtis. Link Removed Skimm’r and CEO Amanda Curtis working on Surface Pro 4. As Ferris Bueller says, “life moves pretty fast,” so...

Link Removed Nate Mars – Music Producer, Sound Designer and Immersive Content Creator Meet Nate Mars: a producer and music technologist based in New York City. He has released original music on several labels in addition to having songs licensed for documentary films and television. Nate is...

A few years ago I met Gustavo Arteaga during the Transformation Challenge. The event was drawn together between Microsoft Surface and Link Removed. We have been keeping in touch and Gustavo has been learning, growing, and developing his skills a lot since graduating from art school. We wanted to...

Link Removed If design can be said to have one big secret, something that makes designers what they are and distinguishes them from coders, it is sketching. At the same time, it is an easy skill to learn—though not to master—and you have probably been doing it all of your life without realizing...

The Surface Book with its incredibly accurate screen, pen, and detachable screen is an amazing tool in the hands of artists like Jordan Crane. I first met Jordan Crane, comic book artist, during the Transformation Challenge. For that project, Jordan worked with the winner of a DeviantArt...

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Artist Craig Tracy has found a way to give his work added depth, by using naked women as a canvas to create a painting of a tiger. Craig Tracy worked with three models for 24 hours to create this image of the endangered South China tiger. He...

Body Painters Create Walking Works of Art at Australian Body Art Carnivale - AOL News (May 18) -- Some artists work with canvas -- others prefer skin. Some of the world's top body painters gathered in Oz over the weekend, where they turned humans into living works of fantasy at the...