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A pink Five Star Trapper Keeper. Trapper Keeper is a brand of loose-leaf binder created by Mead.Popular with students in the United States and parts of Latin America from the 1970s to the 1990s, it featured sliding plastic rings (instead of standard snap-closed metal binder rings), folders, and pockets to keep schoolwork and papers, and a wrap-around flap with a Velcro closure (originally a ...
Crutchfield had begun to evolve his loose-leaf ring binder "Trapper Keeper" in the 1970s, but took his time bringing it to market. [4] [5] It was officially released nationwide in 1981 by Mead. The company estimated that by the end of the 1980s, half of American middle and high schoolers owned one. [2]
Pages in category "Typefaces and fonts introduced in the 1980s" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Lisa Frank's line of products—folders, pencil cases, erasers, Trapper Keepers, and notebooks—were very popular, and the company grossed over $60 million a year in sales during its peak in the 1990s. [4] In 1989, the company stopped using the hand-painted airbrushing technique and switched to using computer software. [2]
Lisa Frank (born 1955) is an American artist and businesswoman, the founder of Lisa Frank Incorporated, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona.She is known for producing whimsical commercial design for school supplies and other products that are primarily marketed to children and young adolescents.
Contrary to their current perception, in its early years, the Bauhaus school printed serif art nouveau typefaces. After some years of design work at the school, Herbert Bayer and Joost Schmidt created the more recognizable proposals—sans-serif geometric letterings, with decorative elements of the font removed for a crisp industrial style.
Diagram of a cast metal sort.a face, b body or shank, c point size, 1 shoulder, 2 nick, 3 groove, 4 foot.. In professional typography, [a] the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font (originally "fount" in British English, and pronounced "font"), because the term font has historically been defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size.
He suggested the name "Trapper Keeper" for the binder that could hold the folders with vertical pockets, which ultimately became the iconic product. Additionally, Wyant designed the shape of the binder, the shape of the folders, the flap closure, the logo, and even the plastic clipboard in the back with the spot for the pencil, resulting in a ...