Art was science. Look at the gorgeous color. The fabric is like a thin canvas. Metal rails top and bottom. Its going on my wall. ... After I figure out how to safely mount it.
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This looks like an assload of work to design and get to print nicely back in the day
That's why I shared it. Just printing it would have taken the finest gear. I figured this community would see the beauty in science ... and how much we used to treasure it. An assload of work indeed.
People used to learn those skills by apprenticing, and also art and design schools. Some of the people that did this work had amazing hand skills, even when they were about to retire, when I was just entering that field.
Some of the older folks here took Drafting classes in high school. I had all the tools it took to do this, but not a shred of the skill. A drafter was like a junior engineer. A whole career path that no longer exists.
I’m one of those. I took drafting 1 in high school including vellum blueprints and later autocad. But I was more interested in design and ended up in the art department.
Photoshop 3 had just come out annd introduced layers, we had 2 Macs in the back of the classroom, but in school we still had a phototypesetter, knives, airbrushes, and rubber cement.