rubber cement
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When desktop publishing arrived in the 1980s, he was a graphic designer using triangles and rubber cement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
In those early days, the Archie McPhee team got the word out through its catalog, which was created using an old Pentax SLR film camera, IBM typewriter and rubber cement.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023
He often brought work home, using an X-Acto knife and rubber cement to cut and paste layouts, decades before I'd learn to do so on a Mac.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022
“Bob had built an eight- or ten-foot X out of plywood,” Doe recalls, “took it out to the desert, covered it in rubber cement because it burned slower and burned it and filmed it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2020
I had always counted on these friends to loan me the adhesive of my choice, but then, seemingly overnight, their Scotch tape and rubber cement were gone, replaced with odorless computers and spongy mouse pads.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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