PickVidsBest Graphic design & typography Videos
The 38 Graphic design & typography videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 2 intermediate, 29 for a general viewer, and 2 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Computerphile, Tom Scott, Technology Connections.
Shop Vac (kinetic typography animation)
A kinetic typography animation for Jonathan Coulton's song 'Shop Vac', made by Jarrett Heather with Illustrator, After Effects and other tools over 500-1000 hours.
There's No Crying in Flag Design
CGP Grey discusses flag design principles and grades flags, following the Minnesota state flag redesign.
Real Life Emoji Keyboard!
Tom Scott shows a full-size real-life emoji keyboard built from 14 keyboards and over 1,000 hand-placed stickers, covering all of Unicode 8.
Glenn Vanderburg - Cló: The Algorithms of TeX in Clojure
Glenn Vanderburg presents Cló, a Clojure library that reimplements TeX's core typesetting algorithms as composable functions.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)
Weird Al Yankovic's 2014 parody of 'Blurred Lines' that scolds common grammar and usage errors, with a kinetic typography video.
Pricing Design Work & Creativity (The Guide)
The Futur's guide to pricing design and creative work, arguing against hourly rates and for value-based pricing.
Typesetters in the '80s - Computerphile
Professor Brailsford of the University of Nottingham describes how the university set out to print its own mathematics exam papers in the 1980s.
Redesign Your Logo (2010 live backing video)
Neil Cicierega's parody song 'Redesign Your Logo', played over a live backing video with corporate PowerPoint visuals.
The Weird World in RGB
Technology Connections explains how RGB light and color work, from hue and saturation to color vision and how objects appear under different lighting.
Lies on the London Underground
Tom Scott and Matt Parker investigate some of the small deceptions and oddities of the London Underground, such as misleading signage and map distortions.
I can't show you how pink this pink is.
Tom Scott explains why a vivid pink pigment by artist Stuart Semple cannot be fully shown on a screen, and touches on the dispute over exclusive rights to the blackest black pigment.
American Psycho -Business Card Scene
The business card scene from the film American Psycho, in which characters compare their business cards.
The Tube Map nearly looked very different
Map Men's Jay Foreman tells the story of how the London Tube map nearly looked very different, including Harry Beck's design and TfL's initial rejection of it.
Papyrus - SNL
An SNL sketch in which Ryan Gosling's character is obsessed with the font choice (Papyrus) in the movie Avatar's title.