Yeah. Back in the 80’s my wife worked for a guy who did scientific illustrations; all the charts and figures in a published papers, presentation slides, meeting posters and such. Even then it was largely computerized…he was the first peron I ever met who had a Mac II, with a gargantuan 16” 16-bit color monitor. He almost never used his big photostat machine, although he did still use the occasional rubylith masked plate. It was a reasonably good living, then
That’s a profession that’s extinct now. There are ‘scientific illustrators’ still but they don’t do bread and butter stuff like that any more; that’s generated by the researchers themselves in Excel or Sigmaplot, or increasingly, generated on the spot by the software built into the instruments. It’s been a long long time since the days when I integrated the area under a chromatograph curve by carefully cutting out the trace on the chart paper (or a xerox of the chart paper) and weighed it. On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:40 PM, M Christol <[email protected]> wrote: > Just scrolling thru > The drop off in advertising is really dramatic as you just needed less & less > hardware to set your type over the years. > > > On 1/8/14 5:28 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> Yeah I got there via this link in the Creative Pros newsletter, which I >> highly recommend subscribing to >> >> <http://www.creativepro.com/article/typetalk-ulc-magazine-retrospective-reinventing-tables-of-contents>. >> >> She discussed the magazine in that context. >> >> >> On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:25 PM, M Christol <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> That's actually an interesting time frame due to all the tech changes that >>> were going on then. >>> >>> >>> On 1/8/14 12:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>>> >From 1974 to 1999 ITC published an extravagant magazine called "U&lc, the >>>> >international journal of Typographics”. >>>> >>>> Some amazing graphic design, and oh, the ads… >>>> >>>> <http://blog.fonts.com/2010/10/25/ulc-back-issues-to-be-made-available/> >>>> >>>> A font junkies' opium den… >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "StrataList-OT" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "StrataList-OT" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
