Current, the editorial arm of the Criterion Collection, has a new oral history about the design collaboration between Dot Graphics and Janus Films. The feature collects anecdotes from Dot Graphics' original partners, Lee Reedy and Robert Clayton, about the golden age of pre-Adobe design, during which black paint doubled as blood, a typewriter was new technology, and film clips were cut with an X-Acto knife and colored by hand.

Check out the gallery and read more war stories at Current.