Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production

Until more than 30 years ago, when the desktop computer began, the entire production process was designed, mostly by hand, with the help of analog devices. Design and printing industries have used various types to capture type and image on film, pages and finally to the printed page. Graphic Tools is a journey through this crazy common man of pre-digital design to the advent of the desktop computer. It examines the tools and social developments that led to the graphic arts industry as we know it today...