Nostalgia: Kimwipes, Quink and Eraser Toys

I stumbled upon a link recently to The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies. Some of the objects were before my time, but others bring back memories.

The set of metal-bodied Design markers, for example. Once they caught on, glass-bodied markers became obsolete and cheap. Great for starving art students. However, if one of them happened to roll off your drafting table, it shattered. Indelible ink and colourful shrapnel all over the studio floor. I found this out the hard way, with a process magenta marker, of course. Despite what you might have seen on Twitter, believe me, magenta is no lie.

Some of the tools in the museum, such as artists' buddies and kneadable erasers, are still used by sketchers and fine artists. Good riddance to rubber cement and its vile-smelling thinner, though. Thanks to digital design and layout, the studio of the 21st century smells okay.