how about photos?

I'll have some of my photos up tonight or tomorrow. I just realized, though, that my 256 sd card is corrupt. So... I will have less photos than I actually shot :(

I would like to post a VERY BIG THANK YOU to everyone involved in putting TypeCon together this year. I don't know who everyone was so I can't name all the names. I know Tamye, Tiffany, Jared, Joe, Yves, and Zara were part of gang but there were many other smiling helpful faces putting in tons of volunteer hours to make it a big success.
To all of you, THANK YOU it was a wonderful experience.

(The only chilly reception was the temperature in the auditorium :-)

ChrisL

One moment would be tough to highlight, so many good ones.

The worst thing about TypeCon is its effect as a serendipity engine: each year I go I end up with enough new ideas that would take many years to realize. So many embryos to freeze.

There were lots of great moments but, for me, playing drop-the-stuffed-toy and pick-up-the-stuffed-toy with Thomas's utterly charming baby girl heads the list.

ChrisL

Well I have been trying to think of one moment, but had come to the conclusion that it is completely impossible. So many great memories. I can't think of a more inspiring, insane, influential, intense, karaokeing, dancing, insominia inducing, and at many moments dumbfounding time. Perhaps a list of moments to come.

Shu

Ed Rondthaler was amazing to watch. I really like his alphabet song and he impressed the heck out of me with his memory – never missed a beat when it came to remembering a name or date. Alessio Leonardi gave a very entertaining talk, and sweating with everyone at Roger Black's lovely sauna was also quite memorable. The duck at Les Halles was brilliant and juicy. There are so many wonderful experiences that I could write a book, but overall I was very inspired by the people I met and everything that I learned from them.

Photos to come soon on my Flickr page– don't forget about the TypeCon Flickr pool!

No worries. Glad you made it home.

Cheers, Si

favorite moment: taking my pants off (in the elevator, in the ballroom, in my room, in other folks' rooms), ass-biting, "whatever."

Low point: realizing at 2am that I've got to wake at 4am for a 6am flight. Still recovering from that one.

High point: Seeing Donald Beekman on the turntables. That guy can spin!

Funniest point: Christoph Winkler (technical guru at Linotype) telling us to stop playing records backwards and to just play some classic rock! Christoph, no hard feelings, but you've got to be more specific. I assumed that since you're German you'd appreciate some techno. Cheers mate.

Epiphany: Speculating with Si about why Apple doesn't make it to these conferences. If they're really a design oriented company, where are they in the type world? (They're only at ATypI it seems).

Realization: Contrasting how nice Paula Scher is in person to... someone else.

Realization: Re-remembering how much I love Cyrillic.

Realization: San Francisco weather really is the best weather in the whole friggin' world.

Hi all,
it was great to bet at the TypeCon and meet so many of you in person. I've got an hard time to get used to NY — and now it seems like Lisbon is a ghost city! Nobody here!
I'm still jetleging! so, no serious comments. A big Thank you! and a big Hello!
Have Fun!
M Feliciano

Terry, could you please describe your type crit experience more deeply?
Not necessarily in this thread.

hhp

You know the biggest clue that I am the hairy Eleven is that is says shu right above that. It is tricky though. That's one of those logos I designed for my firm that never got used so I figured I should use it in some way. My boss assured me that it is going to reappear in some way. We can only hope. Might change that logo soon though, kinda bored with it.

Yves! You are definitely on my list of highlights. Although I can't really say I am too unsung. Running the risk of being oversung, perhaps. Will send my address once you come back online.

Mario, your presentation was great and I was drooling over the faces. It was nice to hear about a topic that is not always obvious to typophiles.

I think "Hairy Eleven" should be Shu's new(est) nickname.

This conference was a wonderful experience for me. Various highlights:

1. Discussing my efforts in type design with some experienced type designers. Like Terry, I was overjoyed that you can actually get the best in the world to discuss your work, and found it tremendously stimulating and thought-provoking.

2. The chance to meet Typophiles in the flesh and blood. Typophile is great, but meeting in person way better.

3. Presentations: Paula Sher's exciting typography. Mario Feliciano's wonderful revivals of Spanish types. Yves Peters courageous criticism of corporate type pirates--and his amazing dancing.

4. The 'Subway Blues' workshop, which I moderated. It was great that Tamye was willing to put it on the program and find space to talk about NYC transport signage. And it was terrific to have such a stellar panel all agree to be on the round table: Neysa Pranger of Straphangers.org, Eric Spiekermann, James Montalbano, Terry Biddle, and John Berry. All had really interesting and different points to make. I will post more to the thread on it.

5. I was sad that in arranging the round table and getting critiques I missed: Nick Shinn's workshop on Open type, John Downer on 'Paperback' and the Graffiti presentation.

Ok, Ok I know, too many superlatives. But this was in fact hands down the best experience for me at a conference, ever!

Emel, it wouldn't be fair to pick on one place in particular. Pricing all over NYC is quite high.

I paid 3.50 for a cup of coffee in the hotel one morning. Regular coffee. No frill coffee. I almost fainted.

That was my lowest point of the conference.

It's a beautiful hotel though to be sure - in fact next time I'm in NY im going to stay there.

“Au Baun Pain” is a chain of feaux French bakeries/sandwich shoppes accross the East. If it is a chain, it is a pain :-)

So did you buy one of those fur coats Hrant? :-)

ChrisL

some high points:

sitting in the "hot seat" for a type critique
seeing that beautiful onestorey/twostorey "a" along with some other stunning blackletter
being introduced to a gay version of clarendon
and above all... i'd hafta agree that meeting friends from online was the most amazing thing

True Stephen. I was very happy with the Roosevelt and especially glad we stayed in the 'official' conference hotel. (And Au bon Pain is a chain store in every mall in America... you were duped!)

The wireless at Parsons was a disappointment though - but I'm spoiled by FlashForward.

For those of you who wish for a tricky way to add your photos to the TypeCon Flickr Group and wish to do it more quickly than one at a time:

(1) Make sure you've joined the group
(2) Go into the Organizer
(3) Click on the Your Groups tab
(4) Select TypeCon
(4) One at a time, patience is key, hold the a key down and click on the photos you wish to add.

Flickr is down at the moment, but I'll double check this in a while. These instructions are courtesy of Quasistoic, Flickr Maestro and Zen Master.

Once you've joined the group you can use the mass share with the group described above or you can do it even more slowly:

(1) Viewing the image
(2) Above the image, in the icons, second icon over, Share with Group

I just upgraded to Tiger today (from 10.2.8… ugh!), and I am very pleased, although performance speed on my Powerbook is way down. I used the Flickr export plug-in. I just wish it would have add the photos to groups, too.

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