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One of the most practical articles you’ll read in a while on CSS was published in A List Apart this week: How to Size Text in CSS. Alhamdulillah I’ve been struggling with trying to figure out which way to size CSS texts.

Preparing your files for Printing on a Commercial Printing Press.

• Terminology
• Choosing your printer
• Information for your printer
• Out of your hands and into the printers
• Prepress
• In the pressroom
• The finishing area
• Distribution
• After burn - Time to clean up

Found via many sites is the awesome Blueprint CSS Framework developed by Olav Bjorkoy.

Interactive audio timeline of Typography in the 20th Century.

Alexander W. White writes on two of my favorite subjects Typography and Web Advertising.

So why is so much advertising, including web advertising, so skippable?
Partly, I think, because advertisers make the mistake of thinking of
the audience as viewers rather than targets. The distinction is real: A viewer is one who views,
which implies—but does not necessarily actually deliver—their
attention. It is a soft and flabby term that describes a mostly passive
audience. On the other hand, a target is one to whom an ad is aimed, and suggests aiming, accuracy, and a more active, vigorous stance by the advertiser.

Andy Clarke (All That Malarkey) is writing a series of monthly articles on informit.com titled “Creating Inspired Design.”

So far he has posted 4 articles on issues of inspiration, bringing print design styles to the web and color schemes.

35 Designers x 5 Questions

Via TypeForYou

TDC (Type Directors Club) announces the 2007 winners of its annual Type Design Competition.

I like!

From TypeForYou

Duane King set up Thinking for a Living as a guide to new designers. The Resources section lists a bunch of recommended books and the Surfing section has a list of key sites of magazines, organization, conferences, blogs and more.

Ben Archer argues that Gill got Gills Sans all wrong. Typographi lists some alternatives to Gill Sans.