The Tremendous 10 link roundup, #151
- The Typographic Ticket Book | “By special issue from the 100% totally real Typographic Violations Division, the Uniform Ticket Book is standard equipment for the modern design enforcer. Lists thirty-two common design infractions, each with an appropriate penalty, with plenty of room for improvisation.”
- Typekit is Adobe Fonts | “As Adobe Fonts, we are consolidating all previous Typekit plans into one streamlined service that gives you our complete library as part of all Creative Cloud plans.”
- How A 1979 Email Chain Letter Helped Give Birth to Our Social Internet | “Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocol and general internet pioneer, traces the emerging social use of the Internet to an unlikely candidate…”
- Did I Make a Mistake Selling My Social-Media Darling to Yahoo? | “Del.icio.us was a way to save things while wandering across the web with low cognitive overhead. You could save and tag. Tags were something I invented, they weren’t a thing before that. Instead of carefully organizing your bookmark folder, you added a word or two. And you could see what other people were working on, and share and contribute with them as well.”
- Rejected | “Apple apparently considers referencing the devices that an application is designed to run on not relevant to its functionality.”
- Chain Reaction: An International Print and Illustration Show of Bicycle-Inspired Art | “As part of a unique collaboration with the Design Museum of Chicago, Colossal asked some of our favorite poster makers, illustrators, designers, and artists from around the world to make prints featuring bicycles.”
- Jason Fried — How to Live Life on Your Own Terms (#329) | “Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO at Basecamp, and the co-author of Rework, Remote: Office Not Required, and Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application. The upcoming It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work will be out later this year. Jason writes a regular column for Inc. magazine and is a frequent contributor to Basecamp’s popular blog Signal v. Noise, which offers “strong opinions and shared thoughts on design, business, and tech.”
- 5 things I’m telling my kids to prepare them for the future | “As young people start to enter the workforce, things are going to be very different than they are now. Here’s how to prepare them.”
- Climate change and the 75% problem | “Quick: Think of some inventions that help fight climate change. What came to mind first? I bet you thought of solar panels and wind turbines. In my experience, that’s what people point to when they think about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. They’re not wrong… [But] Making electricity is responsible for only 25% of all greenhouse gas emissions each year.”
- What to post where in Slack | “The ins and outs of transparency between channels, messages, members, and guests.”
Image: via the Typographic Ticket Book, link #1.