The Trapper Keeper, as you might recall, was the hot school supply to have in the 1980s. I mean, I had to have one. (SOUNDBITE OF AD) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) That's all you're taking ...

E. Bryant Crutchfield, a paper-company executive whose signature product design became a touchstone of student life in the 1980s and ’90s, and an orderly object of nostalgia forever after, died ...

A 2007 relaunch of the Trapper Keeper fizzled, as did an attempted comeback in 2014, when the company redesigned it to accommodate a tablet device. But the current wave of 1980s nostalgia ...