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I've just got back from a day at my parents. My Mom handed me a cardboard box and said it was old stuff of mine to go through. I've just been through its all the work I did at my first job in the mid 80's. Not only do I have the finished, printed brochures, but I also have the hand drawn visuals drawn up for the client to sign off that were carefully made out of layout paper with body copy hand rendered on, all logos drawn, all illustrations and photographs 'ticked' in with edding .25mm black jeylines and pantone marker colouration. Its wild. Its really amazing to see that pre-computer wat of working. The finished, printed brochures match the rendered mock-ups almost exactly and I remember how I used to have to use a typescale to measure the proint size, leading, tracking and line length of the rendered bod copy and then spec up the typed out copy for the phototypesetters.
Then I'd get the typesetting back on bromides, proof check it, roll hot wax on the back and 'strip it in' to the layout boards.
I'd go back to that way of working tomorrow if I could.
I also have copies of my first logo design, my first airbrush illustration, my first ever layout grid. = D