When Canadian media artist Nicholas Hanna first moved to the Chinese city of Beijing, he was quite taken with the water calligraphy that he saw people creating in the parks. The art form consists of ...

In more civilized parts of the world (ahem!), the measure of a man is his calligraphy. Sad to say this particular kind of bragging right is near extinction in this day and age. That doesn’t mean ...

Beijing Design Week 2011: a tricycle modified by Canadian artist Nicholas Hanna mimics the Chinese custom of writing temporary messages on the road with water. A computer strapped to the handlebars of ...

Opinion Water Calligraphy Street Art LOS ANGELES/BEIJING — The sanlunche (三轮车), or tricycle, is ubiquitous in Beijing. A cart dragged along by either a human-powered or electric-powered bicycle, it ...

Many westerners visiting or living in China may observe the art of “water calligraphy” and some may even try to imitate it. However, media artist [Nicholas Hanna] decided to take a totally new ...

Chinese water calligraphy is often seen as a hobby of elderly Chinese men. Every morning, elderly men gather in Beijing's parks to practice this ancient art on the ground with giant brushes dipped in ...

Beijing-based Canadian artist Nicholas Hanna has developed a "water calligraphy device," a bike hack that lets the rider paint temporary Chinese poetry on the street while in motion. He unveiled his ...

Water calligraphy, or ground writing in Chinese by an anonymous artist in Montreal, the largest city in Canada's Quebec province, has sparked local people's interest in ancient Chinese poetry. A ...

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