I went to design school in the early 90s, which was a weird transitional time; most of my professors had taught since the late 60s or mid 70s and insisted on teaching us to use Letraset, rubylith, hand-spec’d type, etc. We weren’t allowed to use computers at all. But then the young TAs would sneak us into the computer lab and show us Quark and Illustrator when the profs were out.
The weirdest was working at the school paper in 1994. We’d lay it out in Quark, print it out, then paste that down on big sheets with hot wax and use letraset, rubylith, and rub down shading as needed. No PDFs yet! That was years away.
