De ses humbles débuts dans une petite ville du Texas, il y a huit ans, Doyald Young devient typographe légendaire, créateur de logo, auteur et professeur. Aussi élégant que ses polices script et aussi sage que son ensemble de dictionnaires Oxford, Young établit la norme pour son métier. Son ami et designer Stefan Bucher décrit Young comme « … quelqu’un qui aurait facilement pu faire ce qu’il fait à la Renaissance, et pourrait facilement faire encore ça pendant 300 ans ». Cet artisan accompli, travaille avec un accent joyeux dans son lieu de prédilection, sa table à dessin. Au Young Art Center College of Design de Pasadena, il partage ses talents avec les designers de demain. L’histoire de Young est convaincante, captivante, et surtout, source d’inspiration.
[ENG] 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.