Weekly Inspiration: Graphic Means

I came across this Graphic Means trailer on Creative Review.

The trailer gives an insight into the coming film, which focuses on the processes used in graphic design before the invention of desktop publishing.
I found this so interesting as obviously I am from the digital generation who has grown up with computers and the way I have learnt graphic design is through Adobe software, primarily during A Levels where our course was digitally based. During foundation year I started discovering more hands on techniques where at one point we experimented with Letraset.

From the looks of the trailer, the film will be a detailed insight into the hands on world from the 1950's to the 1990's - the age before digital computers. I have so much respect for designers that worked in this period, the amount of work needed to create a piece of work is astonishing, as the processes were long winded and often didn't turn out the way they were intended. In comparison to the way I create designs on Illustrator and Indesign etc, where I can quickly draw and delete designs in a matter of seconds, the original processes of typesetting and paste up design could take days to reach a final piece. The skills needed and gained through the years would be invaluable nowadays, whereas anybody with a computer can create a design now.

One part in the trailer features Malcolm Garrett, a designer and educator, who reaches for his laptop and states 'the amazing thing is that this is your studio now', meaning that everything you need is contained in a laptop. This is both amazing - showing the depth of technological advancement we have reached in such a short space of time, enabling us to work quickly and easily within our laptops - and a bit sad as most of the processes used to design in those days are in decline or dead. The old ways of design can be seen as an art form really as only a few require the skills needed to use these processes/machinery. 
This has inspired me to get out of my computer and be less of a 'mac monkey', and start looking at more analog techniques instead of relying on my computer software.