GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY

The poetry of forgotten design tools

A trip down memory lane, and a test of chatGPT

Chris Raymond
7 min readMar 14, 2023

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Photo of mylar rulers, a proportion wheel, X-acto knife, and two rubber cement pickups.
Photo illustration by the author.

I had a seven-year run as a print graphic designer starting in the late 1990s, in the adolescence of “desktop publishing,” following three semesters of coursework in graphic design.

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Chris Raymond

Artist, designer, snark lover. Cynical takes on senior life, sentimental ones on family. She/her www.chrisaraymond.dunked.com | www.instagram.com/chrisrcreates/