lynda.com documentary | Doyald Young, Logotype Designer

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From humble beginnings in a small Texas town eight decades ago comes legendary typographer, logotype designer, author, and teacher Doyald Young. As elegant as his script fonts and as wise as his set of Oxford English dictionaries, Young sets the standard for his craft. Friend and designer Stefan Bucher describes Young as "...someone who could easily have done what he does in the Renaissance, and could easily do it 300 years from now." In this installment of Creative Inspirations, we enjoy a window into the life of this accomplished artisan as he works with joyous focus in his favorite spot, his drawing table. We follow Young to Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where he shares his talents with tomorrow's designers. He recalls the hundreds of iterations he went through in creating the logo for Prudential, and he puts pencil to tissue creating the pages for his next book about script lettering, Learning Curves. Young's story is compelling, captivating, and most of all, inspiring.

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  Howto & Style

[rullkamera]

Drawing from 1938 and still learning, That's the attitude! "Typography permeates our lives". It sure does.

[Chesley Nassaney]

Staedtler lead holder and Staedtler lead pointer. HB & 2H leads.

[revolutionize017]

RIP Doyald. You're now one of my inspiration.

[thinknewdirection]

It's 1948 :)

[fernandatralala]

:)

[wendileona]

When you draw letters, concentrate on the nuances of letterforms and draw them carefully, dedicate time to drawing them out, that in itself is ESSENTIAL for a graphic designer. It just develops a certain sensibility and observation and love for typography that is very valuable to you as a graphic designer and/or typographer. - Gary

[Paul Murray]

He simultaneously makes me want to improve and want to give up...

RIP

[redralph]

He uses different softness of pencils depending on the weather condition... that was not a joke btw

[13820]

R.I.P. Doyald

[sallysax]

amazing