Xencelabs Pen Display 16

Designed with mobility in mind. I designed the advanced pen display to be used everywhere with quick and easy setup wherever creative professionals want to draw and work.

Role strategy & innovation, design, packaging
Team Volker Huebner (strategy, lead, ID), Linda Wu Tingmeng (bag + packaging)
Company Xencelabs 2022–2024

A new generation of pen displays designed with mobility in mind. With a light weight aluminum housing and slim profile, 4K-OLED-Display with best in class color space and a superb fine etched anti-glare glass surface for nearly no reflections and naturally pen on paper feeling. A single-USB-C-cable-connectivity provides nearly unlimited freedom to professional creatives where ever they would like to work.

The design included the Mobile Easel, an easy foldable stand, the QuickKeys remote and a versatile carrying bag that holds the Pen Display 16 plus the laptop and all necessary accessories, ready to go in a minute.

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The Mobile Easel unfolds easily and provides 2 angles at 18° and 35° degrees.

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The aluminum housing has a groove to attach accessories like different pen holders. Rubber bumpers at each corner allow the display to be leaned e.g. against the wall and avoid slipping down.

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always right in place –
ready to go within a minute

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The Desktop Easel for the Pen Display 16 is designed to match the individual needs and preferences of different users and workflows. And for mobility too. The Pen Display 16 snaps easily into the Desktop Easel and can as easily to be detached just by pressing the 2 buttons right and left.
It ships with an easy to operate tilt stand providing angles from 20°–70° degree angle for convenient drawing. With the integrated rotation mechanism the user easily can switch from landscape to portrait mode.

For the off-the-desk-mode I designed the front feet as a kind of "claw" so the display can be placed at the edge of the desktop to sit conveninent on your lap for long working hours without exhausting. This also provides free rotation at any tilt angle.

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flexibility and versatility

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For even more flexibility and versatility the Desktop Easel can be attached to a sturdy third-party monitor arm providing the freedom of multiple angles as well as rotation for always the best position for the perfect stroke. And when the Pen Display 16 ist not used it can be easily moved away to make room on the desk for other tasks.

Image credits: Volker Huebner