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In reply to the discussion: Do you have any job skills that are now obsolete? [View all]electric_blue68
(25,687 posts)fashioned way for Dance Magazine, Schlolastic Magazines, a small Ad Co (but it was on Madison Ave 😄 ), and a few other places. Also some graphic design, and illustration.
I did some at home for small clients, too. Had on a long table; a portable, tilting drawing board frame, and drawing board. My trusty metal T-Sqaure, triangles, rapidiographs, non-reproducible photoblue pencil, and more. 😄👍
While sometimes frustrating, it could be interesting, and creative fun - esp the graphics, and illustrationsc!
When I was at Scholastic a few yrs in (2 wks a month or so) Computer Graphics began to arrive.
Luckily, I didn't do much type specing. It scared 😱 me! 😄
Otoh, at the ad agency, wow, did I have to do a lot of Letrasetting! Luckily I was very skilled at it. I think I quit bc I had to use so much more rubber cement than the other places where we used waxing machines for the type gallies. Thst much began to bother me. They might eventually have thought to fire me, bc occasionally I was a little slower than I should have been.