Designürd

A growing selection of videos designers will enjoy. You're welcome.

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How Colored Pencils are Made

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Futura: the font that escaped the Nazis and landed on the moon

via - VOX

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The Beauty of Sound Design

via - Subtraction

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The Evolution of TV Title Sequences

via - WIRED & Subtraction.com

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Adobe Illustrator at Thirty

Adobe has a brief write-up of it in this blog post, and this video tells the product’s story very nicely. But be sure to see Khoi Vinh's (Principal Designer at Adobe) insights here.

via - Subtraction.com

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How They Animated ‘The Lego Batman Movie’

'The Lego Batman Movie' uses an impressive style of animation that replicates the look of real lego bricks. These digital bricks abide by all the rules of real Lego bricks, so they cannot bend or move in an impractical way. Mike Seymour breaks down a few of the most remarkable scenes, where numerous complex techniques were used to create a believable image. 

via - WIRED

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Style is Substance

The story of Saul Bass in Hollywood

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Dr. Seuss - Putting Rhymes to Good Use

via - the ever talented kaptainkristian

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BLOOM 2

Strobe Animated Sculptures Invented by John Edmark

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Art is Theft

via- swissmiss

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How Stamps Get Designed

via - swissmiss

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A Visual History of Adobe Photoshop

Learn the history or Photoshop in 3 minutes

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The Colourist - The Forgotten Art of Hand Colored Photographs

This short documentary spotlights Grace Rawson, an 83-year old New Zealander who, in her youth in the 1950s, worked as a hand colorist. Along with other young women, she was employed by a company called White’s Aviation to meticulously add color tinting to the company’s aviation photography. As she says in the video, each piece was created lovingly by hand, and though the technique is not generally looked back upon with great fondness, the care that Rawson put into them is evident. She demonstrates the technique here for the first time in many decades, and the results have a winningly imprecise charm that is rare in today’s age of highly manipulated digital color.

via - subtraction.com

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Google Fonts

The new Google Fonts makes it easier than ever to browse open source fonts and learn more about the people behind them. Using the Material Design framework, Google created a design that scales across different screen sizes and devices, and updated the entire of the site, from the overall interactivity all the way down to the logo design. Nicely done!

via - FormFiftyFive & Creative Bloq

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3 Million LEGO Bricks

Behind the scenes of Legoland’s model workshop

via - kotte.org

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How Does a Editor Think and Feel?

via - Subtraction.com

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Sketching New York City Subway Stations

Philip Coppola is a man who loves New York’s subway stations so much that he’s spent the last 38 years sketching them in glorious detail with just a ball point pen.

via - swissmiss