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great frog!!!

Looks pretty good for a 21 year old frog eh? That's 157 in human years. Man, do I not miss rapidiographs.

Great one Glen :)

wooooow i love it, favvvved

Ah, Rapidographs. Did you use those plastic french curves too?

Gotta love the french curves!

Thanks guys.*And yep, french curves and those plastic green oval and circle templates. Remember, you'd put tape on the back of the curves and templates and rulers to keep them up off the paper so ink wouldn't wick under them. The only thing worse were ruling pens (where you put the drop of ink between the adjustable nibs). Ugh.

Very Ribbiting piece Hopps, I mean Hobbs.

@gt: I remember it well. My first design software was Cave Painting Pro %3B)

You forgot to mention halftone patterns and Rock chisling and Berry painting for the guys like Roy :-)

Careful, you're a dinosaur too :p

%5E Ok TyROYASaurus.

TyrexaRoyus

...and when Tippex was the undo button.

%5ELOL no kidding amen to that. Sometimes I do stuff in life thinking, I'll just UNDO that. ha ha*

I think they called that an eraser though.

no kidding amen to that. Sometimes I do stuff in life thinking, I'll just UNDO that. ha ha... amen brother!.. the amount of times ive thought that too!.. lol..

Erickdactyl :D

your like the two old guys from the %22Muppet Show%22:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D7h15xIoVwWw%26feature%3Drelated ...lol!

NOW, oh another Dinosaur! who else would know that.

Old School!!!%0D*%0D*:)

Yeah, you must be Fozzie Bear, nido.

The only thing I miss is cutting amberlyth. It was such a challenge to try to peel up the biggest piece possible without breaking it around your cuts.

We called it rubylyth. *I used to enjoy pasting in missing full points in 6pt text - NOT. A 0.1 Rapidograph came in handy for that.

haha nido...

Yep...used rubylyth too. It was a little thicker (and more ruby colored obviously). I think I still have some of the tubes that stuff came in floating around down in my basement.

%22Fozzie Bear%22:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DGJTtcMzhGEM tells it like it is bro!

LMFAO!

Anyone ever use a compugraphic system? It was like designing with a blindfold. Then there were the hot wax burns, the horrid smell of those rapidiographs, stains from over used developer, headaches from staring into the light table, smearing green acid on developed plates... I don't miss it%3B although I am very glad for the experience. Cutting rubylithe to create full color CMYK illustrations for print taught me more about color than any class. We had this ancient stat camara with holes in the bellows around the lense so they had an old blanket draped over it. Finally one day the heat of the bulb caught the whole thing on fire. Worst smell ever. Got a new blanket and went back to work.

@THEArtist: I don't miss any of it...but your a right when you say it learned us well!

Still love this Glen!! I still use my Rapidograph :)

Ahh...bromides, darkrooms, white gouache, scalpels, raps, pantone markers, wax rollers, spray adhesive....you can imagine how one could get high pretty easily back in those days. Man where has all the time gone!**Love this btw Glen. Did you still have an overlay to protect that? %3B-)

Had brown paper overlay, folded over top and cut at 45 angles before taping down.

LMAO...text book, very text book.

This thread is hilarious - the good old days of Logopond. Welcome back, Chanpion!

good god ... that's really awesome ...

@Norman and Glen: As one of the handful of design geezers on here, looks like I'm in good company.**Ahhhhh, the good 'ol days of actual, mechanical equipment, many of which produced intoxicating fumes, and tedious hand-work performed with the patience and steady hand of a surgeon. Norman, you forgot to list light tables, spray fixitive, RUBYLITH, Letraset rub-off letter sheets (%3C--LOL), T-squares, triangles, french curves, the badass Staedler-Mars electric spot eraser, and lots and lots of tracing paper.**And then, when everything went digital: SYQUEST DISKS!!! With 45MB, 88MB, and even 200MB storage!! WOO-HOO! Those were the days, man. Loved every second of taking 5-10 minutes to perform simple filters in Photoshop, only to have your lil' beige Mac crash midway through. And then saving 165 versions of your Photoshop files, because there were no layers nor a History palette.**Glen, there is something to be said for those days of going the extra mile to not only protect your work with an overlay, but to ALSO cut the angles at 45 degrees. I remember when I first learned this technique, I used my T-square and 45 degree triangle to perfectly cut those angles. After doing it a few hundred times, I got cocky and starting cutting them by eye, and then measuring my cuts with a 45 degree triangle afterward just to see how close I got.**Memories...

Where is the viagra spam comment when you need it!****

%5EI'd LOL at that, but that kind of vigorous activity might cause me to break my hip.

hah fun logo.. love the illustration

Hey Roy! Thx mate. Wheres nav and the gang these days?**LOL Jon, you just created one of those 'Chuck Flash Overload' thing. But just before I fainted I vaguely remember telling my film bureau to GIVE ME BACK MY IOMEGA 10MB DISK BACK!**They were expensive dope man. Thanks for the memories Jon!

Very-very beauty!

Reading all of these comments makes me pretty glad I have only ever had to draw in illustrator, maybe it's a disadvantage and has probably empowered too many part-timers but the time saved can be spent on brand strategy.

what a cool frog!

Thanks guys. As my design instructor used to say %22ink it BIG on hot press illustration board. Then shoot it down on the stat camera. It'll look like GOD rendered it.%22

Don't get ME started on the old stuff. :))*Agree with your teacher, worked for me. And of course if you were good with the exacto blade you could clean up that stat and then re-shot it! memories of the major clean up tricks. And don't forget the old Lettraset type you had to burnish one letter at a time. HA! Okay, done.

Something AtomicVibe said about fixative... we have a box we would set are work into to spray it. After years and years of use, it had an inches thick, beige, fungus like look to it with a menagerie of bugs that would wonder in and stick during the night and day. Some of those bugs were huge! It should have gone in a museum...

Ah yes...the makeshift spray booth

Couldn't help but smile reading this chain again. My 1987 T square hangs proudly in my office.