I thought this was just a joke but he goes through everything and it's ridiculous how close he gets to the finished product
I don't get it. Man uses shapes to make other shapes. You could do that with almost any program that allows drawing of shapes.
Dear god... I can't even put one picture next to some text in word without it (a) freaking out and/or (b) moving all the text somewhere else and/or (c) stuff just disappearing completely... Very impressive...
The same tutorials exist for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Basically any software with image-editing and vector-shape capabilities can be used to create stuff like that.
Basically Word is a pretty powerful (if not exactly the most user-friendly) package. I can knock up pretty sophisticated graphics with Paint.Net also.