Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

links for 2007-09-03

• This Way to the Web, Print Designers! | Subtraction
  “Flash is wonderful, and I think it has its place. But I think it’s absolutely the wrong way to start learning how to work on the Web…” Amen.
  (tags: education design webdesign)
• blueprintcss | Google Code
  Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.
  (tags: css webdesign tools toread via:kvinh)
• The Road to Clarity | New York Times
  How a graphic designer and a typographer and their obsession with fonts and legibility led to a painstaking effort to clean up America’s road signs, one letter at a time.
  (tags: typography roadtrip history design)
• Graphic Design at 70 M.P.H. | Subtraction
  Khoi Vinh comments on the NYT article about type and highway road signs, including images of how the story appeared in print.
  (tags: design typography roadtrip webdesign)