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Kryten602
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It is amazing how far graphic design has come since I started around 1970. To draw a cutter you had to use a 6H pencil with a needle point and the tolerance in any direction was .2mm so when a dozen boxes were put into the outer carton they fitted. Everything else was done using gouache, felt makers, Rotring pens, Letraset/Meconorma, set squares, process white, scalpels, CS2 / CS10 board, layout paper, process cameras, Cow Gum etc., etc. Do your visual manually, paste it onto a board, put a cover on it, phone the client make appt., and any changes rinse and repeat. Looking back design and artwork took ages.
You're a bit before me, I don't quite remember all that, started in around 1997 and remember film to plate, but it was output on paper and shot on camera to film, but that process was just out the door when I started and I was mainly producing film on rolls and trimming them down and then exposing plates.
Still did manual mockups, printing them out, folding them up, putting into an envelope and sending in the post, it would be weeks before we got the changes back, and took a long time to get sign off.
If there was a rush the sales department might drive out with them. But that wasn't normal.
Then there was the rush to get the proof in the mail so it made the Express Train.
We had no email, internet was in it's infancy, and most was done via post/phone calls or information passed through sales, which was not very efficient looking back.
Still did manual mockups, printing them out, folding them up, putting into an envelope and sending in the post, it would be weeks before we got the changes back, and took a long time to get sign off.
If there was a rush the sales department might drive out with them. But that wasn't normal.
Then there was the rush to get the proof in the mail so it made the Express Train.
We had no email, internet was in it's infancy, and most was done via post/phone calls or information passed through sales, which was not very efficient looking back.