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Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - elmo3 - 03-13-2006
orange tape....
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - BigGuynRusty - 03-13-2006
elmo3 Wrote:
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> orange tape....
And Lightboxes, holy crap that takes me back!
BGnR
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - rtwdwk - 03-13-2006
red tape,
choke,
spead,
drum scanner,
KO,
some of my best work was done in the dark ages, pre Mac.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - MacArtist - 03-13-2006
rgG Wrote:
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> MacArtist,
> Don't forget those long rubber flexible curves,
> too.
I remember them!
Gawd, I remember the frustration of drawing with french curves and then during the final inking forgetting what part of the curve or combination of the curves I used to draw a complex shape.
I remember the first day of art school. The portfolio bag that contained all our books, t-square, triangles, templates, and drawing board weighed about 150 lbs. and then you had to buy the requisite Art Bin box to carry everything else. I lugged everything around for a few days until I realized my right arm was 4 inches longer than my left. It was a challenge to carry that bag on the crowded RTD busses.
Lot's of great memories, though. I loved art school. The place had a lot of energy. Students were open to suggestions and contributed ideas to each other.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - Refurbvirgin - 03-13-2006
So who's going to be the curator of the MacResource Archaic Graphic Arts Museum? Surely there needs to be a place to take your grandkids and shame them for whining about not having the latest and greatest technology:
"Why, when I was your age we used to have to photocopy pages from a Letraset catalog, cut out the letters, paste them up and blow them up to make a transparency to project a sign. And we had to walk five miles through the snow both ways to the copy machine, too."
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - rgG - 03-13-2006
MacArtist wrote:
"and then you had to buy the requisite Art Bin box to carry everything else. "
We all used tackle boxes to carry our art supplies for drawing and painting classes. One day it was raining like hell and the buses were very crowded. I got on and while jostling among all the wet drippy students, I somehow pushed out the little pin on the tackle box latch. Well, there went charcoal, kneaded erasers, pastels, blending stumps, and who knows what else from the front of the bus to the back. After that, I used something more secure to fasten the latch. I still remember having to crawl around on the wet floor of that bus looking for all my stuff-sheeze.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - jdc - 03-13-2006
the problem was that in 88 a mac IIsi with 5 megs of ram, 40 meg drive and 13 color monitor was $5000 -- as much as a honda civic wagon!
and i went to "design" school -- not art school -- 1985ish
you guys forgot Pantone paper and pens =)
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - MacArtist - 03-13-2006
jdc Wrote:
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> the problem was that in 88 a mac IIsi with 5 megs
> of ram, 40 meg drive and 13 color monitor was
> $5000 -- as much as a honda civic wagon!
>
> and i went to "design" school -- not art school --
> 1985ish
>
> you guys forgot Pantone paper and pens =)
Yeah, my tuition was $3,000 a quarter, now it's around $7,000. Still, I thought at the time they should have had a computer lab to at least expose us to newer technology.
How could I forget Pantone paper!?! They didn't give that stuff away either. Some of my projects cost $75-100.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - rgG - 03-13-2006
Color Keys, I forgot color keys. The most accurate proofing method ever-not!
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - SteveO - 03-13-2006
Get out your pica poles! And as my German graphics teacher used to say...take owt yourrrr pra-porrrshun whhheeels!