Flying out of Frankfurt today I kept noticing a guy on the plane that looked familiar. Then I realized it was John D Berry. So great to see a familiar (and friendly!) face in a foreign country. We shared a cab to our respective hotels.

I’m looking forward to seeing the city’s massive monuments to autocrats, wars and past glory. I’m also hoping to get my fill of cyrillic alphabets; enough to perhaps finish my own cyrillic alphabets I’ve started.

The theme of ATypI is “The Old and The New”. Paying 500 rubles (about $20) for 5 hours of wireless internet while sitting in a smoky lounge — since I can’t get wireless in my hotel room — feels like a hearty dose of the old. I’m looking forward to some new. I’m really interested to see what local designers in Russia are working on right now.

I’ll post notes here when I have pics up on Flickr. You’re welcome to see pics from my recent week at IBC Conference in Amsterdam. What an amazing week. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joepemberton/sets/72157607293196891/

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All for now.