Documentary about typesetting and page layout from precomputers through Desktop Publishing. I was very much involved with it having one of the first laser printers connected to an IBM PC in Seattle's University District. Did a lot of people's papers, publications, charts, etc... A fun time.
Here is the website for the movie: graphic means
It’s been roughly 30 years since the desktop computer revolutionized the way the graphic design industry works. For decades before that, it was the hands of industrious workers, and various ingenious machines and tools that brought type and image together on meticulously prepared paste-up boards, before they were sent to the printer.
The documentary, Graphic Means, which is now in production, will explore graphic design production of the 1950s through the 1990s—from linecaster to photocomposition, and from paste-up to PDF.
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