Did any of you guys use a bromide camera for enlarging type, etc, then
have to glue all the text in straight lines on your finished artwork?
Chemicals and darkrooms!! I preferred photography, but I happened to be
good at making these strips of sticky text STRAIGHT! I could tell if
something was out by 1/2 millimetre, much to the surprise of our course
teacher. (for non-metric system users, that's really tiny!)

Didn't Letraset make money out of us while the time was ripe! I even
learnt how to make film separations and mix the chemicals for it. Up to
3 a.m. at work meeting deadlines as mags like Womans Weekly would be on
deadline at the same time and they got priority service. (Then work
would give us a CabCharge home at that crazy hour, and I met lots of
out-of-work actors as taxi drivers!) So far from a graphic design role.
Mind you, I came into the industry at the tale end of the lifespan of
all this equipment and methods, as things changed to - wait for it -
Ventura V2 on mono monitors! (a layout program like
QuarkXPress/PageMaker). Thank God for Quark and colour!! Oh, I've only
just turned 36, still young, but it seems like centuries ago ;-)
Heather :-)



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From: dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com
[mailto:dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com] On Behalf Of Sherry Blair
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 1:56 AM
To: dreamweaver@lists.blueworld.com
Subject: Re: OT] The good ol' days


Is anyone interested in "collectibles"? We've got a really good waxer &
I know where an exacto knife & a bunch of new blades are. <g> He sold a
bunch of things out of the darkroom at Christmas, but we still have more

than I want to think about. There are some 4' x 4' photo trays that we
used to develop photographic silk screen in every week for grocery store

signs. Randell also cut a lot of them from newsprint - with an exacto. I

still remember holding my breath every time a client came in to approve
the typesetting. Even with that I still had to drag Randell kicking &
screaming to get him to try a computer. The Good Old Days - boy do I NOT

miss them!
Sherry



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