Loading ...I really like this blog called Creative Bits. They often have little bits and snips of design ideas. Today they have a list of 10 things that’ll help you be a more gooderest designer.
I scored my first design job when I was about 14 years old. A local T-shirt shop owner got tired of me hanging out at his place and taught me to cut color separations. Before long, I was handling layout for his customers and even doing design work on the side. I loved it. Little did I know then that I’d still be doing it, and still loving it nearly 30 years later.
I feel that I have a somewhat unique perspective on design, being that I learned good design and layout principles and techniques way before the age of desktop publishing. It used to take us weeks to do something that today takes a few hours. Still, some of the old camera tricks, color layering, overprinting and spot varnish techniques are still used in the work I do today, and it’s always fun to get a “How in the hell did you do that…” from designers in the younger, post-digital-design camp. Yeah… That’s old school, baby.
Here’s a few tidbits that I’d like to pass along to those who may not remember Amberlith, Zip-A-Tone, Exacto knives, burnishers and airbrushes that actually clogged. Some technical, some practical, some just common sense.
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