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2/4/2009 6:42 PM

created "No Danger" in Photoshop 2 or 3, no layers. Yea things are so much easier these days, but good design still stands out, and Green Thumb Club is definitely GD.

2/4/2009 6:42 PM

I am an eccentric old woman and I like to refer to GD in the BC era, before computers. I remember all of the cutting and pasting, stat cameras, photo slides of the actual artwork.

2/4/2009 5:25 PM

And TT remember the MacPlus didn't come out until 1985, six years later...

2/4/2009 5:22 PM

I'm giving a history lesson here. You children (written with respect, just remember I'm a crotchety old man) don't have a clue how easy you have it now with Photoshop or even with that wizz bang graphics tablet I won't win.

2/4/2009 5:17 PM

TT, look at The Green Thumb Club an actual, now antique graphic design specifically shown on television from a 35mm slide.

2/4/2009 5:11 PM

Or tell you what, I'll take off my entry and replace it with an actual TV graphic I did in 1979 (or so) for a Gardening show.

2/4/2009 5:09 PM

like if AFTS (Armed Forces Television Service) needed to inform viewers that Community News was on next, a graphic (for example) like "We meet again" would be on the screen for 30 seconds.

2/4/2009 5:07 PM

no you totally misunderstand, For many many years before character generators came on the scene, TV used slides for prompts...

2/4/2009 1:02 PM

..funny but I used to produce art, photograph it and the 35mm slide would be used as a television graphic....so what was I doing? I still have a whole slide tray of them, all art and type.

2/4/2009 1:01 PM

Ha Ha... losts of Navy Graphics shops had two people... A PhoJo (photojournalist) and a DM (Illustrator/Draftsman).

2/4/2009 8:31 AM

The Navy really got its money's worth out of you, didn't they? Great experience to look back on though I'm sure!

2/4/2009 8:29 AM

You ain't no Old fart! sweetie.... yet! (but I do love your work!) too bad you weren't a little older... I might consider taking Mae West's advice.....

2/4/2009 8:28 AM

Hey KID, I call anyone a kid who was in 3rd grade when I graduated high school (lol), when I did that work in a two man Navy graphics shop all those "jobs" were expected to be performed by one of them-ME!

2/4/2009 8:19 AM

Great discussion on graphic design! It's so easy to miss the point, communication! It can be done without words if the design has pertinent applications, but sometimes the words are the message.

2/4/2009 6:14 AM

Hey Charles, it's nice to see that you invited 300 of your friends on to the site and had them vote for you. JK

2/4/2009 5:02 AM

Sorry to take so much of your space, reminiscing about the days of my youth...Terry, I thoroughly enjoy your piece, honestly, but when I was 25, that piece would have been "cost prohibitive" to produce.

2/4/2009 4:58 AM

Ah, the smell of the NuArc and solvents used to clean an Ozalid (which used Anhydrous Ammonia to etch the film) in the morning.... Anyway, I digress...GraphicDeano, you have my vote.

2/4/2009 4:54 AM

using amberlith and an exacto knife, dry transfer letters, and huge vertical cameras to produce negatives to physically "burn" an image onto the numerous plates used to print one to four colors.

2/4/2009 4:51 AM

In those days, the GDers were actually the technicians who made the plates for offset printing, who did the trapping behind each letter into an image by hand and those of us who did layers of overlays...

2/4/2009 4:50 AM

To this old man, UN Rights, etc, is a classic example of what I was taught was Graphic Design. Of course, I was doing it long before the MacPlus gave Designers the ability to merge type and graphics.

2/3/2009 10:15 PM

I just joined this site and I love it! I like that there are free contests to win cool stuff such as this one. I submitted my work just now - "UN Rights Article 15" - check it out.

2/3/2009 8:47 PM

Its some good work on here..I should've enter a different design..lol

2/3/2009 3:54 PM

good luck all just put mine in "Tiled Sunflower" take a look :-)

2/3/2009 7:34 AM

Just awesome.... Love all the entries! Goodluck All! Bye4now

2/3/2009 7:34 AM

You know what I love about these contests. They bring everyone together from all levels from beginners to pro's. From guys like me who have never seen the inside of a class room, to folks with degrees.

2/3/2009 5:36 AM

Just a silly question... if the Taltopia Staff is to choose the winner from the top five, I wonder what would happen if all the entries got an equal number of votes? We'd know how the "staff" defines graphic design then, right?

2/2/2009 10:26 PM

a picture is worth a thousand words.

2/2/2009 9:27 PM

I love it Terry, and what ever you want to call it...I'm voting for it!

2/2/2009 6:55 PM

And yet to me, Forever Brotherhood is a Photo Journalistic Essay. Powerful yes, Communicative yes, Cover/Poster adaptable yes, Art absolutely, but I don't see it as graphic design. To me. it's a photograph with type elements.

2/2/2009 6:26 PM

I agree, perhaps the digital part confused some people, but some very nice imagery.

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