Me. Staying here (in the “Dotty” room). And this place once served me the best meal I ever had.

I’m going - not booked a hotel yet (I know I’m insane - anyone want to share?) looking for good fish’n’chips - any suggestions?

I am, too (hello everyone, I’m new-ish around here!). Haven’t booked anything yet.

I cannot go this year but I hope folks will write about the substance of what they encounter over there. I am very interested!

On a related note: All the threads here on Typecon have been just dandy but I think it would have been cool to have had somebody blogging about the content. Maybe there was and I just haven’t seen it yet.

I would, but I think that I would have to actually release some typefaces first or else I would just feel like a dork at ATypI.

I would say book as soon as humanly possible. Somehow hotels were booked for the week of ATypI but not the weeks before or after. Is there another conference (or 5) going on just then?

Dan, I found that hotel, but envisioned the sound effects of rock bands destroying it while trying to sleep. I could be overestimating the music scene in Brighton?... Believe it or not I like to sleep a little bit during conferences.

Eben, I think Joe and/or Simon blogged but I think that waned as the real-time version took over. Look in the blogs.

Blogs I found...

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/

More from TypeCon Seattle
Various - 13 August 2007
TypeCon Seattle, even more photos, t-shirt round-up and button round-up, and various blogs… Michael Kaplan, Joe Pemberton, Brian Crick and on the Helvetica Film blog.

Thanks Guys!

Oh thank heavens for this thread! I couldn’t make it to TypeCon, and every time a TypeCon discussion item came up in an other Typophile thread (I avoided all the explicitly TypeCon-related topics), I had to hide under my desk. Now I can think about brighter things, like, err… Brighton, where I will be.

I can’t remember the name of the hotel in Brighton where I’ll be staying. It is near the pier, but it seems that every hotel in Brighton is near the pier. I’ll be in the UK from the 10th of September, but will be spending the first few days in Reading, trying to find an apartment for the next academic year.

I’ll eat whatever there is to eat; I’m going to Brighton for the type, and for the type types, not for the food. But if anyone can offer up any culinary surprises (I mean good surprises), I would be quite happy about those, too.

>I would, but I think that I would have to actually release some typefaces first or
>else I would just feel like a dork at ATypI.

James, in my experience, the ATypI conference isn’t like that at all. First of all, we are all dorks, whether we have released typefaces or not ;-) Secondly, the event has always seemed newcomer-friendly. I had a delightful time in 2004, when I didn’t really know anyone there (at least personally). It has been a blast ever since, too.

It’ll be my first time.

Sii - if you want good fish ’n chips get on a train to Yorkshire.

Ultrasparky - What? you once had a decent meal in the UK? (I read your blog bemoaning the food quality here).

Nick Cooke

We will be there and are staying here because it was available (seriously, book now) and accepted pets. (Charlie, our dog, will be joining Eric and me...)

Part of what I loved about Brighton was that I had really good luck finding good food while I was there. I hope that luck doesn’t run out!

I’ll be there. Although I will be there in an official capacity representing SOTA and our Type Gallery, I will have much more free time to actually enjoy the conference and see the program than I did at TypeCon. There seems to be a shortage of rooms in the area, the only thing we could find was a house 3 miles out of town. I am definatlly up for some indigenous food, good or bad.

I booked my conference today (as per tomorrow the fee is $50 more) and also booked a hotel, Royal Albion opposite the pier. Depending on who’s reviewing it’s considered either shabby or charming.

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I’m coming as press. I’ll be covering ATypI Brighton on Unzipped, my blog for FontShop BeNeLux, just like I did last year when I attended ATypI Lisbon.

I’m staying with the SOTA crew in their House of Mayhem and Debauchery.

I’m really looking forward to finally meeting David — can you believe that we haven’t met in person yet!? Plus why don’t we have a quick Typophile meeting at some point? After every conference I go to I hear Typophiles complain that they didn’t get to meet such and such and didn’t know such an such was even there.

>Plus why don’t we have a quick Typophile meeting at some point?

Great idea! Maybe someone who knows Brighton can select a location?

Yves is not kidding about the mayhem and debauchery ;)

I’ll be there, too, and I’m looking forward to it! I am happy to offer our house for an organized Typophile gathering (everyone in the house is a Typophile member). It will require a bus or cab ride to our place in the ’burbs, but we have space and plan on having a number of, ahem, social gatherings anyway. If you find another place in Brighton to meet, let us know and we’ll be there.

Dan,
You can run but you can’t hide! I am just hear to remind you that you missed TypeCon and that I will miss AtypI :-(
Your Linotype crew tried to get along without you but were a three-legged chair without you. Nadine gave a great presentation and packed more words into 10 minutes than the old FedEx announcer and I understood every word! Ottmar jovially remarked on my tight American letterspacing :-) and Akira lent his sharp eye to the type crits—he did seem to always be looking around for a tall, thin, curly red-headed young guy for help though.

ChrisL

I’m off to Brighton on this Sunday to play baseball against the Burgess Hill club who have replaced the former successful Brighton Buccaneers who have folded.

The Dalton Maag folks are coming to Brighton but not sure what days and who.

Keep your Rumble in Brighton photos flowing.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/atypi_2007/

I will not be there, and don’t foresee myself ever getting to an ATypI as long as the conference continues to fall during the first few weeks of the fall semester. Its hard to get a semester going when the instructor misses the first or second week of classes.

James

Hmm… in many European countries, the fall/winter classes seem to start a few weeks later than in the US. Maybe the primarily European (including Russians, etc.) attendance base of the last few ATypI conferences has led the date to be set this way.

Same here — we start in October. That’s a shame, James.

US school and work schedules are generally shameful. “Summer” for public school gets shorter every year. It was still July when the “Back-to-school” advertising started this year. Sickening.

I do hope someone will call the “official” Typophile reception/party/pub crawl. It just makes sense to lure them all into one room.... ;)

BTW Tamye I don’t know about having the Typophile get-together at “our” rented house. You might want to get the deposit back. ;^)

Ah, an ATypI-thread, nice.

I will go on my first ever Type-related conference. I will however only attend the TypeTech sessions this time. I am really looking forward to step up a few steps on the Font Development area and learn from all the skilled people teaching this year.

I was lazy and booked a room at the place where ATypI had reserved a few rooms, don‘t know if it’s good or bad but it was a good price and near to the TypeTech sessions I believe.

I hope to find some good indian restaurant, since there is so many delicous in London.

:-)

I too shall be there, staying at the SoTA house. You can pretty much take Jimmy G’s post and use it for mine. SoTa TypeGallery goes across the pond again.

Yves,

You should have seen my hotel room after during TypeCon, now that was an amazing amount of people in a tiny room.

We can have a HUGE party in a house. :)

I’ll be there, as will my Adobe colleagues David Lemon and Miguel Sousa (at least, there may be others).

I’ll probably be distracted with organizational stuff and the conference itself, but I’d be thrilled if my fellow Typophiles would go out of their way to introduce themselves. I like meeting new people, and only bite if you ask nicely.

Of course, there are all the folks I already know, too. :)

Unfortunately my family won’t be able to come with me as we had planned, but that does mean that I’ll be at more parties and such.

Cheers,

T

I’ll be there, along with most of this year’s MAs from Reading, will be good to meet the past and presents....
There’s endless fish & chip places, but with any British town or city it’s normally the non-British cuisine that’s far more interesting. I’ve heard very good things about the Caribbean restaurant, Momma Cherri’s (http://www.mommacherri.co.uk). And Hotel Du Vin is nice, but expensive (http://www.hotelduvin.com). Obviously you have to buy lots of ’Brighton rock’ and go on the rickety rides on the pier.

Yuri Yarmola and I will be staying at the Royal Albion as well.

A.

I will be there this year too, and as a bonus I am only an attendee this year so I get to see as much of the conference as I can manage. I’m also going on the Ditchling tour previous to the conference. With any luck I would like to barter my way into Simon’s discussion on embedding for the web during TypeTech, but we’ll see if I can make that happen.

Brighton gears up for ATypI - spotted this in Brighton’s local paper, regarding a recent moustache growing contest...

“Workers at Mistral Internet, based in North Road, Brighton, invented the “Tache Off” during a drunken conversation at the Font and Firkin pub in the Lanes.”

I won’t arrive until thursday, but for those of you who are there on wednesday, Yo La Tengo are playing at the Concorde. I’ll miss Architecture in Helsinki (sunday) and British Sea Power (monday) too... Oh well. There’s always typography.

Wow, YLT, that sounds promising … thanks for the tip, Fredrik!

have fun