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Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - $tevie - 03-13-2006
http://baltimore.craigslist.org/zip/140312469.html
Looking at that photo sure takes me back. I used that exact same waxer at a couple different jobs. I can hear the thing whirring away, and almost feel how hot that metal plate would get. I'm remembering what an improvement it was to use compared to rubber cement, and no more Bestine. Wow.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - Gutenberg - 03-13-2006
I have an Artwaxer if you want it. I could bring it over.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - $tevie - 03-13-2006
No thanks. I don't think I can squeeze one more thing into this place. :-D
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - Gutenberg - 03-13-2006
Dang.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - Seacrest - 03-13-2006
"...10 years ago."
Uh, try 20.
Ten years ago we setup our first website and were accepting files over some newfangled thing called "FTP." We had long since stopped doing RC paper output, and would buy our first digital press two years later.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - MacArtist - 03-13-2006
It brings back memories...
Rubylith and X-acto knives
PressType
Rapidograph pens and french curves
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - blooz - 03-13-2006
Hell, we were using one at Star Press as little as three years ago. Admittedly, we didn't use it much.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - Gutenberg - 03-13-2006
We still have some amberlith lying around somewhere. About 10 years ago I stopped by a friend's house and he was using ruby to mask the floor while he painted his baseboard heaters. We were still cutting ambers for spot color.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - MacArtist - 03-13-2006
Sad to think about all the dollars I spent on presstype while attending art school. Being smarty-pants know-it-alls; we asked why there weren't any Macs around ('88). The teachers replies were "we aren't sure what impact computers will have on the graphic arts."
Yeah, right.
Re: Nostalgic item for older graphic design types: - rgG - 03-13-2006
I came along during the spray mount era. At my first job right out of college they had just ditched the waxers and moved to spray mount. I still remember running across art boards with type stuck down with wax in the files, though.
MacArtist,
Don't forget those long rubber flexible curves, too.