Typophile - The TypeCon 2007 thanks thread. - Comments

HA! I was waiting for

DanGayle — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:29:29 -0700

HA! I was waiting for someone to post that pic. I forgot who was there to take it. Thanks Jill!

We dared him to get up there. He was having so much fun. He had the glint of a mischievous little kid in his eyes.

The whole Linotype crew was a hoot to hang out with.

Best pic of Otmar Hoefer

Stephen Coles — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:11:25 -0700

Best pic of Otmar Hoefer ever.

Thanks for posting those,

Stephen Coles — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:09:06 -0700

Thanks for posting those, Jill! It looks like the Photoshop script can’t handle file names with ampersands. You should try Flickr. Once you get the hang of uploading, it’s really simple to share photos.

The “hottie” with you and Joshua, by the way, is Zara Evens.

I too had a wonderful time

Jill Bell — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:15:23 -0700

I too had a wonderful time at the conference and really appreciate the efforts of all involved. Great job!
After I sent some of my photos to about half a dozen people, I got tired of it and just put a bunch up on my old, bloated website and thought some others might enjoy them too.
http://www.art.net/Studios/Visual/Jillbell/typeconseattle.html

Thanks for your kind

Eben Sorkin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:00:40 -0700

Thanks for your kind words!

Speaking of which, I would like to invite my fellow Typophiles to join myself & Checko on the photo team.

And if you don’t want to shoot photos we could still use help processing & posting. I say this because my possibly deluded hope is that we can get a good hunk of the photos up in the same day/evening during TypeCon Buffalo.

Mark, thanks for the link. It will be a while before I am in that league.

I’ll second that. Eben has

Mark Simonson — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:11:26 -0700

I’ll second that. Eben has become the James Duncan Davidson of TypeCon. (Davidson is famous for the beautiful photos he shoots at tech conferences.)

A very special thanks goes

dezcom — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:27:24 -0700

A very special thanks goes out to Eben Sorkin for being a one-man photo-documenter! Have you guys seen the number and quality of phots he did for TypeCon this yer? Check out his Flickr set or the TypeCon Flickr group.

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

ChrisL

Well damn, Alejandro, you

dezcom — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:41:06 -0700

Well damn, Alejandro, you are a friend! :-)

ChrisL

I just arrived at home today

Ale Paul — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:41:16 -0700

I just arrived at home today after a few days in New York after Seattle. That was my first type conference and I really enjoyed to meet everybody there. All of you made me feel like a friend.

ignoring that which

Nick Shinn — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:51:55 -0700

ignoring that which doesn’t appear in print,

More web content would be good too.
Problem is, it’s always tougher to get type users to present — except for the music poster guys, off course :-)

For TypeCon 2002, I spent a lot of time courting various art directors — magazine designers, packaging designers, advertising art directors, without much success. No matter they may be great typographers, type is still not big enough on their radar (or I wasn’t) to warrant joining the speaker list.

I find the type community to

James Puckett — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:33:56 -0700

I find the type community to be more egalitarian in general: humbler, in a way, than the design community. It seems to lack the strong cliques and hierarchies that become evident at design conferences.

I agree completely. Even if I only get to attend one S{o}TA event a year, the membership is still a better investment than my AIGA membership was.

I’m late to the thread,

marian bantjes — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:11:24 -0700

I’m late to the thread, sorry. I just wanted to say I had a great time at the conference and was thrilled to meet those of you I knew(-ish) and those of you I hadn’t known of before. The conference seemed to go off without a hitch from my perspective, and that’s no small feat, so kudos to the organizers and volunteers.

I liked the moments of heady technicality which get sprinkled throughout. It was an interesting mix of the handmade, the finely crafted and the truly geeky.

A friend of mine remarked on the lack of type for motion or other non-print based media, and I think it’s a valid point. The design community is notorious for ignoring that which doesn’t appear in print, so maybe Typecon could keep a step ahead and keep that in mind for the future.

Speaking of which I wanted to thank the folks at Sansrival (I hope that’s right) for the terrific motion work on The Thing.

-marian

I only wish Hrant “Scourge

marcox — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:09:55 -0700

I only wish Hrant “Scourge of the Anonyrat” Papazian was alive to see this... ;)

Where is he, anyway?

Wow. Are we having a moment?

DanGayle — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:25:07 -0700

Wow. Are we having a moment? That’s so sweet. I like the idea of making people use their full names. No more hiding behind some anonymous persona.

And then it would be easier to recognize who we should avoid at typecon ;)

You’re welcome. :^)

Miss Tiffany — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:49:49 -0700

You’re welcome. :^)

The TypeCon 2007 thanks thread.

James Puckett — Sun, 5 Aug 2007 22:18:06 -0700

The last professional conference I went to involved representatives from every US military service and intelligence agency sitting around giving each other the evil eye. Having survived that mess, I can really appreciate when a conference is great. So I just want to thank Tamye, everyone at S{o}TA, all the volunteers, the people from SVC and Cornish, the sponsors, and the speakers for making Typecon 2007 the best vacation I’ve had in years.