how 'bout you go first. ;^D

how about photos?

Ed Rondthaler blowing out the single candle on his birthday cake!

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 :(

One of my favorite moments was seeing Gary Munch's presentation on Cyrillic alphabet... "Ya, arr!"

Another was realizing what a dancing machine Yves Peters is... His new name is Yves "Gumby" Peters.

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

Please don't forget to post your pics to the TypeCon Flickr ...

I'm going to try and write a readable post about TypeCon soon. But the conference was amazing on many levels. It was, yet again, an intense week -- give or take a day -- of type, typography and friends.

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.

Watching Yves dance was truly a sight to behold. BTW, Yves you're still supposed to show me some moves. A highlight for me was also watching Alessio Leonardi's presentation...very, very funny.

Jason, I didn't get to meet you at TypeCon. :(

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

Favorite quote - "Over 50% of people in Iceland consult the elves when building a house" David Berlow during his tribute to Matthew Carter.

Fave moment - being on stage when Matthew received the SoTA award.

I ♥ MC Si

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

Low point - having to take a cab to JFK without Shu - Sorry, I waited til 5.15 :-( hope you caught your flight.

Si

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!

Low point - waking up late and making Si wait for me for no reason. I did make my flight, no problems there, but I sure felt bad.

No worries. Glad you made it home.

Cheers, Si

Finally convincing Dave Farey to expand his Cachet family. (Sometimes it takes a few nudges from some cogent friends.)

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

Favorite moments:
Watching friends eat "cow dick" fear factor style.
Enjoying the Ed, Ed & Ken talk.
Meeting so many wonderful new friends.

I've posted my favorite photos to the Typecon Flickr Pool as well.

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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.

My images are incredibly random, but I've just added some of them to the TypeCon Flickr Group.

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

Seeing Ed Rondthaler so sharp at age 100 was amazing. So much wisdom, I can't imagine all the things he's seen in his lifetime. Getting my type critiqued by Matthew Carter, John Downer, Akira Kobiyashi, and Erik Spiekermann was a dream come true. I met a lot of neat people and in contrast to the fields I was previously involved in (entertainment and the arts) everyone I met seemed very down to earth.

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

hhp

Shu! I didn't realise up till now you were the hairy eleven! Send me yo' e-mail address, dude! :)

The highlight of the conference for me was finally meeting so many people I already knew, plus getting to know some of them better (this includes Shu, beautiful guy and the unsung hero of this conference).

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.

UNSUNG!

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.

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)

Actually, it has been a while since we've seen Apple at ATypI. Peter Lofting was in Rome in 2002, but that was the last time Apple were represented. Frankly, I'd be happy to see them only attending TypeCon if it were an indication that they were paying any serious attention to type. :(

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

Apple's Peter Lofting attended TypeCon2003 in Minneapolis, and I *believe* I chatted with him briefly at TC04 in SF last summer (I seem to recall he was traveling and could only make it for one day or something like that). Apple kindly loaned us Macs for the conference last year, which was a huge help for registration, the store, and attendee "surf stations."

There was another Apple rep or two registered last year, but I'm sure that was due to Apple's proximity to the conference venue. No Apple folk were in attendance in NYC.

I think our little type events are a tiny blip on a radar filled with larger events better targeted to Apple's marketing/recruitment/etc. strategies... but we can always hope for more participation in the future.

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!

I had a great time, this was my first typecon. I learned alot listening to the speakers and doing a few of the workshops. Great to meet so many from the forum. Learned a lot about the industry, thanks to everyone I talked to.

On a side note, the Roosevelt's bar and restaurant prices were (are) awful!

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

Hotels are notoriously expensive in their food service in big cities.

ChrisL

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.

lol I understand food in NY can be expensive, but the cafes and delis around the hotel were much much cheaper. Roosevelts pricing was bandit-like.

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

I remember the (hors-conference) food at ATypI-99 being quite sad. The hotel had a small over-priced bakery with stale goods. That was it. It was called "Au Baun Pain", but Simon dubbed it "Au Big Pain".

hhp

“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

From Novosibirsk? No, but I have a great photo of a fur shop there.

hhp

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

Guys, guys, hotel bars and restaurants are almost always subpar and overpriced. That is the rule, not the exception. Best to judge the hotel by its location and price, especially when there are so many eateries in a close vicinity.

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.

Duped? You mean like into needing food to live?
There really was nothing else to eat there. :-(

hhp

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.

I just uploaded 13 photos (that maxed out my free 20mb for July; since August 1 is just on MOnday, maybe I can get some more photos up then?). This was the first time I had used Flickr. Is the "add one at a time" method described above the only way to get photos onto a group like this?

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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

If you use iPhoto, the Flickr Export plugin is handy.

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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