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[VIDEO] Did This Guy Just Recreate iOS 7 With Microsoft Word?

Designer Vaclav Krejci has skills! Besides building basically every last detail of the OS, he also shows how Apple’s designers might have used Word to make the iPhone hardware image used in advertisements.

By Judith Yeoh — 22 Oct 2013, 03:11 PM — Updated almost 11 years ago

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WATCH: The video that shows how iOS 7 was (or could have been) created in Microsoft Word!

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PS: Be sure to stick through to the end of the video, where Krejci does perhaps his most astonishing work with Word—recreating the angled, reflective image of an iPhone used in Apple ads.

So...did Jony Ive design iOS 7 in Microsoft Word to win a bet or something?

Of course not, but he could have. Every single one of the new iOS 7 icons — including the more intricate ones like Game Center, Maps, and Stocks — can be recreated almost perfectly in Word as Vaclav Krejci demonstrates the whole process in the video above.

We've no idea how long this video took to make, but it’s ten minutes long — and that’s after it has been sped up quite significantly. It’s likely to take the average Joe a lot longer, too, because we're assuming most people’s Word skills aren’t quite as spectacular as Krejci’s.

This video serves as a good example of the skill and determination of Krejci rather than how bad or good iOS 7 icons are. It’s also quite incredible that a word-processor has good-enough vector tools to enable such creations.

Why did the designer do this?

For one thing, Krejci notes that his other design tutorials haven't received a ton of views on YouTube. The cheekily titled "Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?" video had more than 500,000 views as of today afternoon (22nd Oct.)

But Krejci further states that in reality, "[t]his video is not about iOS 7 nor Word. It's about thinking out of the box." Think outside the box he does, using Word 2013's array of shader tools, distortion filters, and even a very clever use of the character map to perfectly replicate the breezy icons on the iOS 7 home screen.

Krejci makes it clear he doesn't think iOS 7 was created in Word—he suspects like most people that it was done in Adobe Illustrator—but he was happy to show us that it certainly could have been.