Well I think I may have worded it incorrectly β¦ it ushered in what we eventually called βsecretary artβ because it made possible typography from an untrained eye, e.g., the misuse of inch marks instead of curly quotes, and bad kerning galore
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It improved lives for some, but put many others out of work β¦ with the digital workflow many typesetters went out of business, ditto stat houses and color separators β¦ design was made easier but not necessarily better because it made it possible to deliver a finished looking design of a poor concept
In 1991 I taught myself how to use Quark and (before Photoshop) PixelPaint so I could remain employable β¦ even though the studio where I worked was still doing paste-up. As the head production artist I took one Macintosh class and I was on my way β I retired in 2016
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You learned it better in a phototypositor making headlines
I used #11 X-Acto blades, blue pencils, a proportion wheel, rubber cement, Bestine in a conical can and a rubber cement eraser β¦ I also did simple color separations but left the advanced compositing to the experts at the printers πβοΈπ
