Nostalgic item for older graphic design types:

[Gutenberg]

Pica poles make excellent back scratchers these days.

Don't forget the type gauge. You could cover your type with the clear thingy and estimate how large it was! Useful when you were trying to reproduce something that had been shot down on the----

Stat camera!

[SteveO]

My first Creative Director was in his late 30s. This was 1991. He had an old beige Mac that was later upgraded to a B/W G3, that is now upgraded to a G5. All were and are mostly paperweights. He is old-school all the way, baby! I'm sure there is a Stat camera laying around that old shop somewheres, too.

I remember the pre-press guy who used to come over and pick up art/files. He came over probably three or four times a day. Doubtless his shop has been out of business for nearly 10 years, no thanks to computers.

Somebody burn me a fiery!

[MysteryGuest]

rgG, my best friend in high school had some kind of cut-rate plastic tackle box (I had top of the line from Sears) that would spontaneously open and fling art supplies all over the place. I had to help her pick it up everything more than once. She would never descend to the indignity of a rubber band though.

[rgG]

MysteryGuest,
My tackle box was a blue metal job that I think I may still have in the basement. I can't remember exactly what I put through the latch that made it better, but it never did that fly open and fling thing again, thank goodness.

[steve_]

Anyone remember these?



It's a Lucygraph for enlarging and reducing artwork.

[rgG]

Unfortunately. We just called ours "the Lucy". Now that is one I had forgotten about.

[MacArtist]

Steve_

I have never seen one before. I am intrigued.

rgG,

I still have my Art Bin box. It still has a partial box of #10 X-acto blades in it.

If I want to scare myself, I think back to all the times I saw stressed out classmates cut themselves with X-acto knives. While I am thinking about it, I remember a particularly bad incident a student had with a utility knife (used them for cutting illustration board and mattes). He about cut his finger off. YEOOWW!

Refurbvirgin,

We copied type out of the Letraset catalogue all the time for our projects. We worked that poor copier to death in the school library. The samples in the book were around 12 pt.

I still have my school issued pra-porrrshun whhheeel.

This brings back a lot of great memories.

[msglee]

Anyone ever get to see type lice?

[Numo]

I remember pressing wax-backed galleys down with a brayer (roller). The first time I did it, I pressed so hard that it was almost impossible to lift it up again. We had these little red cans of solvent that we used to disolve the wax when we had to make changes to a keyline.

Has anyone mentioned photo-blue pencils?

[$tevie]

We've still got a Lucy in our basement. The ad agency where I used to work gave it away to my husband, just to get it out of their space. He still uses it on occasion, usually when he is illustrating something from a photograph (he draws the old-fashioned way, by hand!) Our Lucy is a big blue metal monstrosity with crank handles, but I worked on one exactly like the one in steve's photo somewhere along the way...