Thank you for your question and support, BetterinWriting! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam questions: ua-cam.com/channels/iDJtJKMICpb9B1qf7qjEOA.htmljoin
I majored in Visual Communications. I use the same "standards" in graphic design when I am creating patterns and designs for my leather work. It takes longer to plan, but putting everything together is so much faster and creates a much more appealing result. The big picture is the most important thing unless the item is going to be displayed on it's own. Some of my stuff just looks "ok" sitting on a table, but when the customer is wearing it they tell me they get so many compliments. It's very satisfying and keeps me going.
Adam, this is pure gold. I work in the automotive industry as a designer for badges and emblems for one of the major American car companies. My job is a marriage between graphic design and product design. My team uses these principles of distance, primary read, secondary read, tertiary read, negative space, flow of information, etc. whenever we place a badge or emblem or individual letters on the surfaces of all of our vehicles. We must also consider feasibility and manufacturing constraints of actually building these letters and emblems and attaching them to the vehicles.
As a scientist/engineer, my favorite thing is when I have to do a presentation, and I get to "pretend to be a graphic designer" and put together all my information and figures in the powerpoint. Formatting scientific figures for maximum ease of understanding of the story that they tell is incredibly difficult, tedious, and time consuming, but very fun and rewarding. Thanks for the encouragement in that department, Adam!
I really would have loved to have heard more about the perspective characteristics and tricks used for stage and/or screen props. I love forced perspective, and the way it’s often used in many stage show backgrounds and both static as well as active props. Another thing that blew my mind was learning about the makeup worn by the actors back in the first days of film. The makeup, in order to be effective was incredibly exaggerated and not at all suitable under any other conditions.
I am reminded of a calculus teacher I had back in high school - he was so efficient and precise when it came to conveying the steps of solving equations, graphing, etc. Never since have I seen anyone so fully aware of the limitations of the paper when writing things down. If you look up pictures online of people's neat and tidy calculus/chemistry notes, you'll know what I'm talking about. This guy must have had at least some experience with drafting and/or graphic design. I'm still in awe of how cleanly he conveyed information years later.
I so enjoy how playfully passionate Adam is about a relatively small detail like that font kerfuffle. The joy he shows in attention to detail is infectious and I think that’s why so much of us enjoy his work.
The client's disease: thinking you are better at the job than the professional who is entrusted with executing the project (even if you did dabble in the field 35 years ago)
Holiday, feeling seen there. I don't think I'm particularly a typeface snob, but as I've gotten on in my career, I am surprised how easily I recognize typefaces in the wild. It really shows the power and magic of the human brain... nearly anyone can become an expert in something, just takes lots of practice.
Is there any doubt Adam is one of the best, most interesting people on earth? Every topic he covers, even if it's a subject I normally am not interested in, he makes it seem fascinating and I have to watch it all the way to the end. 👍
I've never done Graphic Design either in school or professionally but I can attest to the desire to get it right. I was working on a display for a continuing education board that was very visible from our office (and we walked past it multiple times a day) but very easily overlooked. My first display had people looking at it, commenting on the content, and actual education happened. For the next month, I started working on another display and was doing some comparison measurements that I hadn't done the month before. My manager asked what I was doing and why I was fussing with it. (She was an excellent manager, but sometimes got lost in the weeds.) I looked at her and asked what the purpose of the board was. Before she could answer I asked if it was something for staff to really learn from or was it a prop to show to the administration 'what great inservice/education we did? If it's the former, let me get on with what I'm doing, if it's the second I'll have some typed words in there in 5 min. She left me alone.
I can relate to the graphic design thing very well! I write video game walkthroughs for a living, and displaying the information in an easy-to-read manner is one of the more important factors, almost as important as the writing itself in my opinion. Paragraphs can work perfectly fine but they're also a fantastic way to bury important information within a block of text (almost like a tools drawer as Adam has said in the past). Bullet point lists are great for a bunch of tips and info on a singular subject, while tables make better lateral use of the web page in many cases. Screenshots I also use not just to beautify the page but also as navigation: on a very long page, what screenshots the text was placed between can make it much easier to get back to where you were, or figure out *when* in the level you are when scrolling through the page!
@@samueldeter9735 I personally use screenshots like visual bookmarks.90% of the time folks are looking up a guide for help with one specific section, so the images are there to let you know when in the level you are as you scroll down (while also annotating the text in some way). They do become functional for things like Collectibles, Maps and Puzzle solutions, but you can usually tell by the text if the image will assist with a provided screenshot.
So much about graphic design is learning to notice how conveyance and other things aren't always clear even if all the information is technically present. It's also interesting how much that helps in grasping details of other fields, like software development, or even in how complicated it is to write a polling question that doesn't present bias towards the answers, and give back bad data.
So basically what you were saying in 9 minutes was like Coco Chanel's "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off"? She was talking about accessories catching the eye and distracting too much from the overall appearance as well. I love that this basically applies to stage / costume design as well!
Thank you for your book! I am currently mid-way through the audio version and I’m already using checkbox lists to improve my planning. Absolutely loving it.
I love hearing about your design background. I have a graphic design degree. My classmates and I would joke about the superpower/curse of seeing imperfection and dissecting font choices all-around us. 😅 My art and design background has definitely helped my cosplay and replica productions.
HAHAHA!! I totally have one of the books with the wrong font on the spine. I don't think I ever would have noticed, only because I always leave the dust jacket on. It's my built in book mark.
I've always had an appreciation for elegance in all its various forms. It comes in the form of design. There's a lot of badly designed products out there. Not that they don't do the thing they're supposed to do, but that they EXCLUSIVELY do the thing they're supposed to do. A piece of metal with a sharp edge and a handle is a knife, but a great knife is a tool that accounts for how it will be used. Its context. What metal does it need? The grind, the bevel, the finish? What kind of handle? The size, the shape, the materials, the construction? Is it a folding knife? A straight blade? Full tang, ½, ¾? When I get a new thing, I explore its qualities, its preferred method of use. My favorite moments are finding out that a cheap tool I picked up was so well designed that it fills significantly more roles than is immediately apparent. Conversely my most frustrating moments are when a tool sucks at even its main intended function. A dull knife that won't take an edge for example
Follow up question: Do you save all the scraps from the initial concept for each project, or maybe a few from each stage, or does everything but the final product and any molds associated with it get scrapped to save room? I’m sure I’m not the only one who geeks out over the earliest germination of an idea that turns out to be amazing.
As someone that had to take classes on all that (both for graphics and prop making in the Media Arts and Animation program I was in) - I love seeing this video, and hope a lot of people I know actually watch it so they sometimes understand why I sometimes get irritated at things in movie/TV - especially those with existing material, like Halo.
Re 7:31 - Hah, sigh. Done a bit of pre press graphic design, and my own books covers. Can relate when something is off. Both been the one to do it and had it done when handed off to someone else.💔🤐
i love people that were taught in old school ways.they seem to be the most creative. todays stuff i find to be very blahhhh.i love that vice in the backround!
With props especially scale is important. I have a friend who cosplayes Genesis from Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core. The character is over 6 feet tall, my friend is 5 foot, so when I made their sword I scaled it to their height
Well, I'll be hecked! Once the vid was over, I immediately went and took off my copy of Every Tool's a Hammer's dust jacket and lo and behold, that's not the Futura font! Grrr indeed! 😂 (but rather neat to have the early mistake-print version)
Ok. I can’t help it. The thumbnail reminds me of the Simpsons. Someone says “he’s happier than a man holding two knives” then it cuts to Moe, holding two knives, and he says, “I gotta tell ya. This is pretty terrific”.
An easy way to solve the sting issue would be to have a 10 year old hold a long medieval crusader dagger. That will give a scale reference for comparison.
Hahaha. Great story about cover font. Sounds like publishing house might employ at least one passive-aggressive graphic designer! .... Fine! I'll change the title font if you insist! (Inner dialog) But, mister high and mighty boss man, you didn't say anything about the spine.
An area where this has suffered the biggest decline in this regard is directions and doseage of over the counter medications. It should leap off the label at you. It is so frustrating to find this MOST IMPORTANT information these days. And I remember when it wasn't.
You gotta watch Adam , like my Welch Terrier , they both will get lost in the weeds sometimes . Fortunately , the both come back after their done : ) .
"How old am I? Old enough to remember when we cut-and-paste using razor blades and glue. We used to count the characters in a document by hand!" -- Adam 'ancient craft knowledge' Savage
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Adam Savage, the world's biggest digressor. Ask him any question and within a mere 2 or 3 hours, he'll answer. Viewer: "What was your favorite Myth on Mythbusters?" Adam: My favorite episode was (pause to take a dramatic drink from this odd bottle of liquid that couldn't have been edited out) ....and after rambling about 10 things completely unrelated to the question...he finally arrives at an answer...kind of.
One of the "best" examples of bad graphic design: A wall calender covering the whole year including bank holidays, week numbers and so on, without telling you which year it is. Like a calender for the year 2022 with the number 2022 nowhere to be found on it.
Hey, that way if they don't sell it in 2022, maybe they'll manage to shift a few in 2023. So what if the days don't match? Time is subjective, anyway. ;-)
Here is a link to a sword maker who talks about considerations for film and TV from someone who makes historically accurate replica weapons. ua-cam.com/video/mF1VFlCnLQ4/v-deo.html He is one of the people who produced weapons for the Witcher (among others)
Thank you for your question and support, BetterinWriting! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam questions: ua-cam.com/channels/iDJtJKMICpb9B1qf7qjEOA.htmljoin
Is the original Livestream recording this comes from (7/18) available to members? I can't find it in the playlist.
Adam, you are my inspiration. Keep making these amazing videos.
I majored in Visual Communications. I use the same "standards" in graphic design when I am creating patterns and designs for my leather work. It takes longer to plan, but putting everything together is so much faster and creates a much more appealing result. The big picture is the most important thing unless the item is going to be displayed on it's own. Some of my stuff just looks "ok" sitting on a table, but when the customer is wearing it they tell me they get so many compliments. It's very satisfying and keeps me going.
Adam, this is pure gold. I work in the automotive industry as a designer for badges and emblems for one of the major American car companies. My job is a marriage between graphic design and product design. My team uses these principles of distance, primary read, secondary read, tertiary read, negative space, flow of information, etc. whenever we place a badge or emblem or individual letters on the surfaces of all of our vehicles. We must also consider feasibility and manufacturing constraints of actually building these letters and emblems and attaching them to the vehicles.
Is it Ford? If so I have a question about the 3150, lol
As a scientist/engineer, my favorite thing is when I have to do a presentation, and I get to "pretend to be a graphic designer" and put together all my information and figures in the powerpoint. Formatting scientific figures for maximum ease of understanding of the story that they tell is incredibly difficult, tedious, and time consuming, but very fun and rewarding. Thanks for the encouragement in that department, Adam!
I really would have loved to have heard more about the perspective characteristics and tricks used for stage and/or screen props.
I love forced perspective, and the way it’s often used in many stage show backgrounds and both static as well as active props.
Another thing that blew my mind was learning about the makeup worn by the actors back in the first days of film.
The makeup, in order to be effective was incredibly exaggerated and not at all suitable under any other conditions.
I am reminded of a calculus teacher I had back in high school - he was so efficient and precise when it came to conveying the steps of solving equations, graphing, etc. Never since have I seen anyone so fully aware of the limitations of the paper when writing things down. If you look up pictures online of people's neat and tidy calculus/chemistry notes, you'll know what I'm talking about. This guy must have had at least some experience with drafting and/or graphic design. I'm still in awe of how cleanly he conveyed information years later.
I so enjoy how playfully passionate Adam is about a relatively small detail like that font kerfuffle. The joy he shows in attention to detail is infectious and I think that’s why so much of us enjoy his work.
The designer's disease: unwillingly recognizing typefaces on sight (and having the urge to tell everyone else their names)
And having the urge to tell them why it was a poor choice
The client's disease: thinking you are better at the job than the professional who is entrusted with executing the project (even if you did dabble in the field 35 years ago)
Holiday, feeling seen there. I don't think I'm particularly a typeface snob, but as I've gotten on in my career, I am surprised how easily I recognize typefaces in the wild.
It really shows the power and magic of the human brain... nearly anyone can become an expert in something, just takes lots of practice.
As someone with a metallurgy background, I notice details about metal items and surfaces.
Having a weird first edition should be sought after. You have a way to tell if you had a quirky early run unit, instant collectors item
adam going off on a rant is the way i think. one simple word can lead you down the rabbit hole or show you how the universe works
Is there any doubt Adam is one of the best, most interesting people on earth? Every topic he covers, even if it's a subject I normally am not interested in, he makes it seem fascinating and I have to watch it all the way to the end. 👍
I've never done Graphic Design either in school or professionally but I can attest to the desire to get it right. I was working on a display for a continuing education board that was very visible from our office (and we walked past it multiple times a day) but very easily overlooked. My first display had people looking at it, commenting on the content, and actual education happened. For the next month, I started working on another display and was doing some comparison measurements that I hadn't done the month before. My manager asked what I was doing and why I was fussing with it. (She was an excellent manager, but sometimes got lost in the weeds.) I looked at her and asked what the purpose of the board was. Before she could answer I asked if it was something for staff to really learn from or was it a prop to show to the administration 'what great inservice/education we did? If it's the former, let me get on with what I'm doing, if it's the second I'll have some typed words in there in 5 min. She left me alone.
I can relate to the graphic design thing very well! I write video game walkthroughs for a living, and displaying the information in an easy-to-read manner is one of the more important factors, almost as important as the writing itself in my opinion. Paragraphs can work perfectly fine but they're also a fantastic way to bury important information within a block of text (almost like a tools drawer as Adam has said in the past). Bullet point lists are great for a bunch of tips and info on a singular subject, while tables make better lateral use of the web page in many cases. Screenshots I also use not just to beautify the page but also as navigation: on a very long page, what screenshots the text was placed between can make it much easier to get back to where you were, or figure out *when* in the level you are when scrolling through the page!
It's so frustrating not knowing when to interrupt your flow reading through something to look at pictures, or whatnot alongside it
@@samueldeter9735 I personally use screenshots like visual bookmarks.90% of the time folks are looking up a guide for help with one specific section, so the images are there to let you know when in the level you are as you scroll down (while also annotating the text in some way). They do become functional for things like Collectibles, Maps and Puzzle solutions, but you can usually tell by the text if the image will assist with a provided screenshot.
@@KBABZ didn't necessarily mean related to your work specifically, your comment just made me think of it
@@samueldeter9735 Ohhh okay, apologies!
So much about graphic design is learning to notice how conveyance and other things aren't always clear even if all the information is technically present.
It's also interesting how much that helps in grasping details of other fields, like software development, or even in how complicated it is to write a polling question that doesn't present bias towards the answers, and give back bad data.
So basically what you were saying in 9 minutes was like Coco Chanel's "Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off"? She was talking about accessories catching the eye and distracting too much from the overall appearance as well. I love that this basically applies to stage / costume design as well!
Thank you for your book! I am currently mid-way through the audio version and I’m already using checkbox lists to improve my planning. Absolutely loving it.
I dig the bed head. Looks like he just woke up from a nap. 😅
Sting, from LotR. I love this.
I love hearing about your design background.
I have a graphic design degree. My classmates and I would joke about the superpower/curse of seeing imperfection and dissecting font choices all-around us. 😅
My art and design background has definitely helped my cosplay and replica productions.
Omgosh! The not-Futura-on-the-spine-of-the-book story! Excellent. Can we please have more adventures in graphic design
HAHAHA!! I totally have one of the books with the wrong font on the spine. I don't think I ever would have noticed, only because I always leave the dust jacket on. It's my built in book mark.
I've always had an appreciation for elegance in all its various forms. It comes in the form of design.
There's a lot of badly designed products out there. Not that they don't do the thing they're supposed to do, but that they EXCLUSIVELY do the thing they're supposed to do. A piece of metal with a sharp edge and a handle is a knife, but a great knife is a tool that accounts for how it will be used. Its context. What metal does it need? The grind, the bevel, the finish? What kind of handle? The size, the shape, the materials, the construction? Is it a folding knife? A straight blade? Full tang, ½, ¾?
When I get a new thing, I explore its qualities, its preferred method of use. My favorite moments are finding out that a cheap tool I picked up was so well designed that it fills significantly more roles than is immediately apparent. Conversely my most frustrating moments are when a tool sucks at even its main intended function. A dull knife that won't take an edge for example
Follow up question: Do you save all the scraps from the initial concept for each project, or maybe a few from each stage, or does everything but the final product and any molds associated with it get scrapped to save room?
I’m sure I’m not the only one who geeks out over the earliest germination of an idea that turns out to be amazing.
As someone that had to take classes on all that (both for graphics and prop making in the Media Arts and Animation program I was in) - I love seeing this video, and hope a lot of people I know actually watch it so they sometimes understand why I sometimes get irritated at things in movie/TV - especially those with existing material, like Halo.
Adam just tripled the resale value of the first printing of his book.
and how many people just went to check? ..........mine's not one though 🙁
Re 7:31 - Hah, sigh.
Done a bit of pre press graphic design, and my own books covers.
Can relate when something is off. Both been the one to do it and had it done when handed off to someone else.💔🤐
What a great explanation, it depends on the look, not formula..or formulaic.. So cool
i love people that were taught in old school ways.they seem to be the most creative. todays stuff i find to be very blahhhh.i love that vice in the backround!
In college my first tech director said, First Rule of Technical Theatre. If it can't be seen from 30 feet away. It doesn't matter that much.
Man I wish you hadn't mentioned that book thing, can't unsee
I appreciate and share your "fontstrations".
With props especially scale is important.
I have a friend who cosplayes Genesis from Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core.
The character is over 6 feet tall, my friend is 5 foot, so when I made their sword I scaled it to their height
Thank you, master of the art of making and telling.
i got a signed copy when it released, i will have to check that!
Futura is one of the greatest typesets ever made!
Well, I'll be hecked! Once the vid was over, I immediately went and took off my copy of Every Tool's a Hammer's dust jacket and lo and behold, that's not the Futura font! Grrr indeed! 😂 (but rather neat to have the early mistake-print version)
I have a copy and it is with the different font. The letter A is the giveaway, one is open and the other is closed.
Thank you.
I wonder if the broken PaperMate pencil clip dimension is near the missing sock dimension?
I swear I could listen to Adam talking about paint dry
This is a bright video, I’d cut half the lights off for shooting things like this.. love the content.
8:17 I actually screamed into my pillow over this, so infuriating!!! 🤣
Ok. I can’t help it. The thumbnail reminds me of the Simpsons. Someone says “he’s happier than a man holding two knives” then it cuts to Moe, holding two knives, and he says, “I gotta tell ya. This is pretty terrific”.
This all reminds me of an idea I applied when I was in a play: if what I’m doing is appropriate for daily speech, it is NOT appropriate for stage.
An easy way to solve the sting issue would be to have a 10 year old hold a long medieval crusader dagger. That will give a scale reference for comparison.
Wow thank you . I learned so much from you
Maybe apply your graphic design method to your videos. At the end I wasn't sure what the original question was or if it got answered.
Thanks.
Adam what would happen to the properties of iron if they cooled off in a centrifuge at high speed
Life is a matter of details, genius is a matter of which details
Anyone know what that crazy thick yellow-capped pen is? The tip looks so long and thin, and that's right up my alley. (I love my super thin pens.)
After searching the same question - it seems to be a "Pica pen/marker". Hope this helps if you haven't found out. He has a video on it
Also titled, "Fun with Fonts" :-)
Tahoma 12 is what I use instead of the default worse ones programs want me to use.
I imagine Adam is AMAZING in his HOA :-)
Holy shit! I have that book!
I never took the jacket off.
Searching "Graphics Design is my passion" on the internet is the best way to learn what not to do.
WOOHOO! Collectors item!!
I think all Marketers need to watch this...
Does anyone know what pen that is that Adam is using?
Hahaha. Great story about cover font. Sounds like publishing house might employ at least one passive-aggressive graphic designer! .... Fine! I'll change the title font if you insist! (Inner dialog) But, mister high and mighty boss man, you didn't say anything about the spine.
Did you use Letraset?
I just checked my copy of the book and it is NOT in FUTURA!!!!!!!
Question: have you tried painting some of the Lord of the Rings models from games workshop? You should do a video!
An area where this has suffered the biggest decline in this regard is directions and doseage of over the counter medications. It should leap off the label at you. It is so frustrating to find this MOST IMPORTANT information these days. And I remember when it wasn't.
You gotta watch Adam , like my Welch Terrier , they both will get lost in the weeds sometimes .
Fortunately , the both come back after their done : ) .
How long do you think you would survive if you were locked in that studio zombie apocalypse style!?
I literally have you spread eagle in my discord 24/7
"How old am I? Old enough to remember when we cut-and-paste using razor blades and glue. We used to count the characters in a document by hand!" -- Adam 'ancient craft knowledge' Savage
Discourse of discourse!
All I can think of now is 60's psychedelic concert ad's and album covers!
Pauses at 8:23 to go check my copy of the book.
Is this a re-upload?
I’m not going to lie I saw the sting sword and I clicked the video
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Adam Savage, the world's biggest digressor. Ask him any question and within a mere 2 or 3 hours, he'll answer.
Viewer: "What was your favorite Myth on Mythbusters?"
Adam: My favorite episode was (pause to take a dramatic drink from this odd bottle of liquid that couldn't have been edited out) ....and after rambling about 10 things completely unrelated to the question...he finally arrives at an answer...kind of.
One of the "best" examples of bad graphic design: A wall calender covering the whole year including bank holidays, week numbers and so on, without telling you which year it is. Like a calender for the year 2022 with the number 2022 nowhere to be found on it.
Hey, that way if they don't sell it in 2022, maybe they'll manage to shift a few in 2023. So what if the days don't match? Time is subjective, anyway. ;-)
plz make martian suit, its my dream to see one
Isn’t this a “RERUN”?
Ha ha those first editions will be worth more in 200 years on interplanetary pawn stars
3 easy things to remember when making an invitation: What, When, Where
I imagine this is how it would feel to be adams apprentice.
When building plastic military models you need to exaggerate a lot of details also to make them look more like real
A profession is a role where a particular qualification is required to practice. Examples are lawyer and doctor. Designer is a trade.
I love the part where he casually has two swords at hand
He reads theses before and preps for them.
@@ehzmia yeah, I figured that. the effect is still funny for me .. and Im sure he has random cool stuff around all the time
AH PERSPECTIVE
Every Sans is Helvetica. haha
Here is a link to a sword maker who talks about considerations for film and TV from someone who makes historically accurate replica weapons.
ua-cam.com/video/mF1VFlCnLQ4/v-deo.html
He is one of the people who produced weapons for the Witcher (among others)
😸
It's funny how people who worked in graphic design are extremely particular about fonts.
That is not the right font…
Papyrus...
I'm sure it won't haunt you for the rest of your life.
looks like Adam had access to sensitive corporate information))
I’ve heard you collect bones/ osteological specimens.. can you show and tell your bony treasures please ?!
Font nerd.