I am arriving at 10am on the 8th. Leaving a week after the conference is over. Staying with family on Mass Ave.

JLT and I will be there for the duration. I think it’s safe to say you all know in which room the party’s at.

I arrive Tuesday the 8th at suppertime, leave Sunday night and am staying at the Hyatt. I’m really looking foward to this!

I am arriving on the 9th just in time for Thomas and Adam’s workshop and leaving Monday morning—staying at the conference hotel as well. William Berkson is sharing a room with me.

ChrisL

Chris and I will focus on the stuff really important to the over 60 crowd.

That means for the late night party come one come all—to Stephen’s room.

We’ll be asleep :)

I plan to be there August 11-13, and I am looking for a roommate! I live in New Haven, Connecticut. Anyone interested in rooming with me? :)

-Rose

> We’ll be asleep :)

Gee, then...
could I drop by when it’s my senior nap time? ;-)
I’ll bring prune juice and Fig Newtons!

I will be arriving the 7th and leaving the 14th and staying at the Hyatt. Now that Stephen has proclaimed his room the “party room”, I may have to challenge him to a duel. Oh, we shall see where the real party at.

Damn, I have to work, you fellow-freaks, annual report season’s a-comin’.

Prune juice is welcomed Norbert but you will have to park your walker outside.

ChrisL

you guys are scaring me! : )

We are too old to be scarry :-)

ChrisL

How shall we meet up? The only person I met last year was Yves but am very excited about meeting/chatting with others.

Pasting our Typophile icons on our conference badges might be a good start.

Last year I didn’t know a soul. When I walked into the conference hotel bar and saw a bunch of folks wearing typographic T-shirts, it all became cleartype to me :-)

ChrisL

> Pasting our Typophile icons on our conference badges

I started using my Typophile avatar on my personal business card late last year. It’s funny that some people I’ve met for the first time now recognize the icon before they read my name.

Just goes to show you how widely this forum is visited.

”...some people I’ve met for the first time now recognize the icon before they read my name....”

Would they be named Harpo? :-)

ChrisL

Oh sweet, good idea, Stephen.

David, didn’t we meet? Perhaps I’ve confused some people. Who was handing out the cute little buttons in the bar?

I think I met Tamye and Shu, but it was a bit overwhelming and I was only a volunteer last year. I probably checked all your badges at the auditorium at least once, heh. I did also help Rob Keller setup his Ceramic Type exhibit.

Yeah! Thanks again David, you were a big help. Hopefully I will be there this year, maybe with some new art type stuff.

rk

This year I get to enjoy the conference to mingle with and meet new people!

David, You might meet some OLD people too—like me and Norbert :-)

ChrisL

Just thought I’d bump this thread to the top of the forum, while letting the crowds know that I’m booked into the Hyatt as well. Arriving on the 9th, leaving (surely with a tear in my eye) on the 14th. Can’t wait to meet up with everyone again...

Chris, you’re not that old.

“Chris, you’re not that old.”

Thanks Grant, but why then does the AARP have me on speed-dial? :-)

ChrisL

I’m down for meeting new AND old people!

The official call for submissions will show up in the news here at some point, but -

TypeGallery2006 - submit your new typefaces - deadline is August 4.

Forms and details at www.typegallery.com

Thanks Tamye!

ChrisL

Tamye,

When I go to the typecon page, the only clickable object I see is for the Hilton. I can’t get to the registration page or anywhere else. I tried to send an e-mail to info@typesociety.org and it was returned as undeliverable. I don’t know if you aware of these problems, so I decided to post here. Anyone else having issues?

Thanks,

Kristin

Kristin,
I had no problem. It may be you have an older version of the page cached in your browser. Try this link:

http://www.sotalink.com/registration/

ChrisL

Kristin! Are you coming this year!!??

I’m coming, Tiff. And it’s on the Bullseye! Woo-hoo!

Chris,

Thanks for the advice, but I have already registered. I’m just worried that other folks may have the same problem. And the e-mail thing is a bummer, too.

Kristin

Yey!!!!

Kristin, I’m so glad to hear that you’re coming this year!

We were aware of the problem with some browsers retaining old versions of the site in their cache. Emptying the cache or force reloading the page makes the problem go away - at least, that’s what we’ve heard.

As for the email bouncing... all I can say is that we do have intermittent problems with both incoming and outgoing email. My number is buried in the contact area of the SOTA site - if you ever need me, give me a call.

If you could try forwarding that bounced email with the headers intact, I will show it to our provider so he can investigate.

See you soon!

Just a reminder - TypeCon2006 early registration ends tonight, and some of the workshops are full or dangerously close. Now is the best time to register to get the lowest price and the workshops of your dreams!

BUMP

Tamye’s more right than ever; I waited to register and the workshops I wanted are full! Register quick, even though the main program isn’t posted in detail yet....

You should always listen to me, Carl... Seriously ;)

Huh what? Did you say something Tamye?

; D

Carl,
You should know that the last person that refused to listen to Tamye was found at the bottom of San Francisco Bay with two Ludlow machines for shoes!

ChrisL

Tiff just posted about our new fundraiser at TypeCon. All those lovely items you’ve been saving for an auction can now be donated to the Curiosity Cabinet in the TypeCon marketplace. Proceeds benefit SOTA’s educational activities.

Check it: http://typophile.com/node/21405

Oh wow. I forgot about those Ludlow boots, Chris. He was a real leadfoot...

Only 19 days!! Holy goat cheese!!

What a Feta-ing remark Tiff:-)

ChrisL

OK, kids, the program timeline is now on the TypeCon website. You can see when your pals are speaking. Please note that we are starting an hour later on Sunday so that everyone can enjoy the Saturday night party :)

Full details on each session will be posted shortly.

Also, we have a blog now! http://www.typecon.com/talk

Feel free to visit and comment on posts. Sign up for the RSS feed - it’s fun and handy. Email me privately if you want us to post about something (related to TypeCon, of course!)

i would like to recommend to anyone with an interest in classical art that they visit the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. It is, imho, one of the most underrated museums in the country, and the building is spectacular - a sort of Italianate Victorian / Moorish / English A&C castle on the edge of downtown, very near the fine art museum and almost next door to MassArt. They also have a great cafe, one of the better museum gift shops anywhere, and a beautiful courtyard. I’ll certainly be going, and would happily take long anyone else who wishes to visit. The T goes right there, too, I believe.

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/

JLT

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jlt : http://www.hewnandhammered.com : rnrmf!

I arrive on the 8th and leave Sunday evening (the 13th). Staying at the Hyatt like most folks.

I look forward to seeing lots of Typophile regulars there!

T

T: And do we get the pleasure of hanging out with Miranda?

JLT: I might let you take me to this place. If they have an air conditioner, they are my friend.

It’s just 10 day’s ’til TypeCon...

I’m going to Boston Saturday - I can’t wait to get there and see everyone.

There is a great lobby bar/lounge area at the Hyatt where we could join up for cocktails... anyone up for meeting there on Monday evening to get the party started early?

I’ll be there Tuesday evening.

Carl, there’ll be a bunch of us in the bar on Tuesday night, too...

”...there’ll be a bunch of us in the bar “

Sounds like a familiar pattern :-)

ChrisL

A welcome pattern...

Woop woop, I’ll be driving home to MA on Wednesday and staying with my Aunt and Uncle in the North End for the duration of the conference, just a short walk from the hotel. I’m not doing any of the workshops, but I’ll be keeping a sharp eye out for your avatars on your name badges....need to mingle!

or type tshirts, right? or typographic tattoos? or type jackets... or... or.. typographic haircuts... or... (you get the idea, right?!)

I’ll just walk around without a shirt on and I’ll be sure to get SOME KIND of conversation about the ambigram on my back, haha.

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TypeCon2006: The Boston T Party
August 9-13, 2006
Hyatt Regency Boston
Boston, Massachusetts USA

presented by The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA)
in partnership with MassArt and the Museum of Printing

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- TypeCon2006 Regular Registration Extended
- Free Tours and Special Events Added for TypeCon Attendees and the Design Community
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TypeCon2006 starts next week, and we can’t wait!

More than 70 wonderful speakers and workshop leaders are ready to educate and entertain you. Matthew Carter, Cyrus Highsmith, Kit Hinrichs, Richard Lipton, Paul Shaw, Skolos/Wedell, Clif Stoltze, Ilene Strizver, and many more will be there - you don’t want to miss this gathering of greats!

Explore all things typographic, from the the work of Swiss legend Adrian Frutiger to the latest in type design from South America. Learn to print Victorian letterpress posters and create the best digital fonts. TypeCon2006 also features the Typophile Film Festival, a type and design education forum, type tours of Boston, and exhibitions of type and design, calligraphy, letterpress, and more!

Join us for five days of affordable education and entertainment in an intimate, friendly setting. Secure registration and more info is available on the TypeCon2006 website. Seating is limited - register now!

TypeCon2006 - http://www.typecon.com
Direct Registration Link: http://www.sotalink.com/registration

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TYPECON2006 REGULAR REGISTRATION EXTENDED UNTIL MONDAY
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You asked for it, and you got it. We’ve kept the conference price as low as possible so everyone can join in the fun. Register now, before late registration starts Tuesday!

Regular registration (through midnight Pacific Time, August 7)
SOTA members: $225 professionals/$135 students
Non-members: $265 pro/$160 students

Late/walk-up registration (after August 7)
SOTA members: $295 professionals/$175 students
Non-members: $345 pro/$200 students

Optional pre-conference workshops are $50 for each half-day session and $100 for each full-day session, plus materials/lab fees, if any.

Register for TypeCon2006: http://www.typecon.com/typecon2006_register.htm
Alternate Direct Link: http://www.sotalink.com/registration

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FANTASTIC FREE EVENTS TO ADD TO YOUR TYPOGRAPHIC PLEASURE
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During each TypeCon, we present free activities that are open to the public. This year, we’ve scheduled seven fantastic typographic adventures that are open to TypeCon attendees and the design community. These tours and special events are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and you must register free of charge to reserve your spot. (If you’ve already registered for TypeCon, use the link below to add these events to your registration.)

Register for Free Events: http://www.sotalink.com/registration/free.php

—————-Wednesday, August 9 - 10:00 am - 1:00 pm—————-

A Typographic Tour of Cambridge and Boston

Presented by Paul Shaw | FREE!
An introductory tour of environmental lettering in Cambridge and Boston with stops at locations (or what is left of them) associated with W.A. Dwiggins, D.B. Updike, and other Boston typographic luminaries. The tour begins at Harvard University and its surrounding area in Cambridge before a T-ride to Boston to see sites around City Hall and the State Capitol associated with the Boston printing and design community. The tour ends with a look at the area between Arlington Street and Copley Square.

—————-Wednesday, August 9 - 4:00 - 7:00 pm—————-

An Introduction to WAD: A Look at Selected Materials from the Dwiggins Collections at the Boston Public Library

Presented by Paul Shaw | FREE!
This afternoon features a guided visit to the Dwiggins Rooms and Dwiggins Collections at the Boston Public Library. Attendees will view his marionettes and artifacts from his studio, then have an opportunity to view examples of his calligraphy and lettering, illustration, decoration, magazine design, book design, and, naturally, type design. The material selected will cover Dwiggins’ entire career from c. 1900 until his death in 1956.

The Boston Public Library
Rare Books and Manuscripts
McKim Building, 3rd Floor
700 Boylston St.
Boston MA 02116
617-859-2225 or 617-536-5400
info@bpl.org | www.bpl.org

—————-Wednesday, August 9 - 8:00 pm—————-

The Third Annual Typophile Film Festival

Produced by Punchcut and presented by Typophile and SOTA | FREE!
The Typophile Film Festival is a celebration of typography in motion - a showcase of short films that are inspiring, educational, experimental, and humorous. The festival affords its audience a unique opportunity to see motion design in which type is the star. Standouts this year include John Langdon’s alternate opening credits for “The Da Vinci Code,” new work by Blur, Convert, and MK12, and Gary Butcher’s animated homage to Josef Müller-Brockmann. Past festivals included shorts by The Font Bureau, Motion Theory, Trollbäck and Co, and WeWorkForThem.

Grand Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Boston
(formerly the Swissotel at Downtown Crossing)
One Avenue de Lafayette
Boston, MA 02111-1739
617-912-1234
www.regencyboston.hyatt.com

—————-Thursday, August 10 - 9:30 am - 12:30 pm—————-

A Boston Calligraphy Discovery

Presented by Margaret Shepherd | FREE!
This guided walk along Boston’s “calligraphy trail” is a tour of the alphabet-the stylized letters on local buildings, monuments, and plaques, starting with an “A” in the Boston Public Library’s Rare Books Department and ending with a “Z” in the Central Burial Ground on Boston Common.

Meeting Point:
The Boston Public Library
Rare Books and Manuscripts
McKim Building, 3rd Floor
700 Boylston St.
Boston MA 02116
617-859-2225 or 617-536-5400
info@bpl.org | www.bpl.org

—————-Thursday, August 10 - 10:00 am - 12:00 noon—————-

Engraving and Its Relationship to the Evolution of Typography and Graphic Design - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Presented by Marjorie Cohn and Nancy Sharon Collins

Attendees will view actual engravings from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, discuss the history and the process of engraving, and examine the nature of the “cut” as a line or form is made in this elegant, almost lost art. Part of this discussion will be the influence of engraving on the origins of graphic design and typography. The remainder of the session will be in the enjoyment of magnificent examples of works of art on paper.

The Agnes Mongan Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

There is a $6.50 per person charge for study room visitors, which also covers entrance to all of the Fogg Art Museum galleries and exhibitions.

—————-Thursday, August 10 - 1:30 - 6:00 pm—————-

Type and Design Education Forum | FREE!

A series of presentations and discussions on type and design education, featuring James Craig, Designing with Type, Ilene Strizver, The Type Studio, Mark Jamra, Type Culture, Audrey Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Laura Franz, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Gillian Mothersill, Ryerson University, John McMillan, ISTD, John Sherman, Notre Dame University, and Norbert Florendo. Audience participation is welcome and encouraged. Sponsored by SOTA.

Grand Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Boston
(formerly the Swissotel at Downtown Crossing)
One Avenue de Lafayette
Boston, MA 02111-1739
617-912-1234
www.regencyboston.hyatt.com

—————-Thursday, August 10 - 2:30 - 4:30 pm—————-

Tour and Play at Firefly Press | FREE!

Visit one of the finest letterpress printing offices operating today. Firefly Press, in operation since 1978, is an entirely letterpress operation, doing true letterpress only - printing directly from metal type that they set in-house. Firefly follows the philosophy, not just the mannerisms, of such Boston-area printers as D. B. Updike, Bruce Rogers, W.A. Dwiggins, and Rudolph
Ruzicka. Firefly projects include small books and brochures, broadsides and certificates, invitations, announcements, and stationery. They didn’t set out to be a museum - it just happened that way. They print on a Vandercook proof press and a Chandler & Price Craftsman platen press, and have two
Linotype machines, two Monotype composition casters and a Monotype
display type caster, and about 250 cases of type for hand setting. A typecaster will be operational for this visit, and attendees can print their own keepsake on the Vandercook!

Firefly Press
119 Braintree Street, Suite 202
Allston/Brighton section of Boston

Register for Free Events: http://www.sotalink.com/registration/free.php

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TYPECON2006 MAJOR SPONSORS AND PARTNERS INCLUDE:
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The Museum of Printing, Massachusetts College of Art, Bitstream, Font Bureau, Monotype Imaging, Kodak Creative Network, Stoltze Design, Extensis, FontLab, Linotype, MyFonts, Veer, and Adobe.

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ABOUT TYPECON AND SOTA
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TypeCon2006 is the annual conference of SOTA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, study, and support of type design, typography, and the related arts. For more information about SOTA, visit http://www.typesociety.org.

Have questions, need answers? Send us an email!

See you next week!
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I understand that Boston is a hotbed of squash.
So I’ll bring my raquet.
Any other TypeConners who like to bash a small black ball around a white room?

I only play tennis.

ChrisL

Anybody know what building the Typecon workshops happen in over at Mass Art?

Not sure Eben. Wish I could just head home right now!

Say....
Will anybody from Type Radio be at TypeCon? Wishful thinking - I know. Seems like they would more likeley be in Portugal at Atypi instead; it being closer to home for them...

Thanks David! I take it that’s your home institution?

I’m from Plymouth, about 40 miles south of the city. Taking off from Philly where I’m at for college on Wed and will be joining everyone on Thursday at the conference. Luckily my aunt and uncle live in the North End, just a short walk away from the Hyatt.

Eben, if you find out what building the workshops are in let me know. I’m also not sure.

Also, does anyone know where at Harvard Paul Shaw’s tour will start Wednesday?

According to the MassArt web site, all the graphic design facilities are in the Tower building on Huntington Ave. If you don’t know the area, it’s the big tall building on the corner of Huntington Avenue and Evans Way, a block or two past the Museum of Fine Arts:

Google map satellite view

Hopefully we’ll find a helpful table of TypeCon volunteers in the lobby!

Thanks for the information. It’s reassuring to know that it’s all in one building.

And don’t forget to post some pictures somewhere!

Karsten

Emails went out to everyone who registered about the workshop venue, check-in times/days at the Hyatt, etc. If you didn’t get the email, please let me know by sending an email to info at typesociey.org. Check the website for the most current info - http://www.typecon.com, and the blog at http://www.typecon.com/talk

Workshops are in the Darth Vader-esque Tower Building at MassArt, 621 Huntington, Boston. Instructions on taking the T from the Hyatt are on the TypeCon site and in the email that went out. Enter through the main Tower entrance, go up the first flight of stairs, and there will be TypeCon volunteers waiting to check you in and direct you to the workshops!

Sadly, no Type Radio folks will be in Boston, but they’ll be at TypeCon next year (venue announcement happens Friday! I’ll give a nice little prize to the first person who posts the TypeCon2007 venue on Typophile).

well, tamye, i guess i could post it right here right now, but i have a feeling i wouldn’t get a prize for that, would i?

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jlt : http://www.hewnandhammered.com : rnrmf!

Pictures from Typecon are coming....

Joshua/jlt: well, tamye, i guess i could post it right here right now, but i have a feeling i wouldn’t get a prize for that, would i?

That wouldn’t be very sporting, Joshua... there are at least two dozen people who *could* post right now, but won’t ;)

Allow me to rephrase - I’ll give a prize to the first person who posts about the 2007 venue AFTER the reveal Friday afternoon during TypeCon. Let’s say the first post after 6pm Eastern Time on Friday, August 11. SOTA board members and their cohorts are not eligible.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/typecon/

or

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebensorkin/

Thanks!

Thank you SOTA for sponsoring the “Type & Design Education Forum” that I moderated today.

I got the OK to expand the “Typographic Education” section on Typophile and post some of the PDFs presented by educators Audrey Bennett, Laura Franz, John Sherman, John McMillan, and Gillian Mothersill, plus consolidate web site and resource links referenced during the sessions.

Special thanks to James Craig, Ilene Strizver and Mark Jamra for their insightful and typographically stimulating presentations.

Personal thanks to Andi Emery and JP for assisting during sessions.

Folks got to see my face today without the red “Groucho” disguise ;-)