Dec 30, 06:25 PM · Packages
I’m laying out my Xeric package right now (and I highly recommend InDesign if you can afford/borrow it). I’m getting excited; the actual artwork has been all laid out, and I can actually get a vague sense of what it would look like as a book. If you can imagine looking at older pictures of yourself as a kid, that is kind of what the feeling is. Awkward and impressed at the same time because you know how you’ve turned out, but it is still hard to believe that little guy will become you in time.
As it gets closer to put together my submission packages (I need six), I’m wondering about purchasing my very own color copier. They are surprisingly affordable! You can get an HP color copier for 300 dollars! If Kinko’s charges $1.00 per color copy, my money would be better spent purchasing one of these low end color copiers.
It makes me feel… weird. When I first started doing design work (waaaay back in 1994) for our school newspaper, our team would have killed to have a color copier, just to screw around with. A scanner was a giant privilege at this time. By and large, we were doing a bizarre hybrid of paste-up and laser-printed pagination with Mac Classics. A lens flare effect in Photoshop used to take 6 – 8 hours to render on our Quadra.
Progress is so cool. However, it makes me feel strange to be able to buy technology that ten years ago would have cost around $80,000.