i overshot typecon and ended up in seattle. i shoulda scheduled my layover to be in san fran instead of LA. maybe some of the men and women at the conference can give us some of the highlights of what they've done this week. ;^)

Chris L: Hey, don't forget me with all three of them!

I haven't seen Hrant. Nick and I have been perfectly cordial, and shook hands a couple of times. I think I might have seen Gerald at a distance, but I'm not sure....

Regards from SF,

T

>Hey, don't forget me with all three of them! <

But Thomas, you are not nearly as tempestuous! (and should get the thick-skin award for your restraint).

>i overshot typecon and ended up in seattle<

I'll take the hint. That is what comes of too much overshoot.

:-)

ChrisL

I also regret not being able to make it over to TypeCon this year. Hopefully I'll be able to make it next year to promote TPC and MADType and meet all y'all.

Thomas

Gerald at a distance, but I'm not sure....

Gerald Lange? I imagine that would be him, say hello from the Great Norhern Gerald.

Yeah, those Linotype contest typefaces are wicked, aren't they? I can't get over that Pirouette (http://www.linotype.com/91918/pirouette-family.html) is Tatento's first typeface.

I wish that I were at TypeCon, too.

Even cooler than Pirouette and Picture Yourself, in my opinion, was Linotype's decision to fly the winners themselves (unfortunately, not all of the winners were able to attend) to SF, and put them up during the TypeCon week. It makes me kick myself for not having entered the ITDC 2003 contest myself (not that I have any designs that would have won anything...)

(Joe, your links in the above message don't take me anywhere )

I think joseph link is http://www.linotype.com/6-2157-6/itdc2003winners.html

Btw, Pirouette is very nice and Bohemia (called Argot before) is very nice too and he is argentinian ))

Ale, I've been passing around copies of your slick Sudtipos catalogues and the response has been fantastic. I only wish I could have stuffed more of them in to my luggage to share with the TypeCon crowd down here. If anyone who was at TypeCon wasn't able to pick one up of these catalogues, send me an email and I'll see what I can do for you apr�s-con.

Hi to all at Typecon, wishing i were there (and at the bar buying you a beer), loved it in 98, will be there in 05.

Yes - NYC next year - be there! Hopefully Alejandro can make it too. I had a really tremendously good time this year.

For better or worse, for me meatspace is much more docile than online fora. I got along with almost everybody - credit to them mostly. It was a really great conference - quite possibly the best ever I've been to - although it'll take weeks to see it objectively - as with anything so heady. It was great to be back. Special thanks to Tamye.

BTW, Miles, TC98 was special, wasn't it*. The giddy "exploring the unknown" delight is gone now, but in terms of value and pure rockin' fun 2004 rules bigtime, and apparently it gets better every year. Helsinki or New York... Now that's an open question.

* And talking to Stuart it's clear that feeling is pervasive - something magical happened back then. And maybe it was my imagination, but whenever two of us from the Old School (like Brian, Allen, Richard, James, Simon) eyed each other in SF we had this certain knowing, quiet smile. Bob was there too. But I guess this conference will generate its own nostalgia as well.

BTW, thanks to Jared and Joe (duh), Typophile was like a subcurrent running through the entire conference: most blind intros referenced this place, even particular threads! Major symbiosis. Or mutual parasitism. ;-)

hhp

BTW, Grant, last night I was going through the goody bag, and the Veer thing ("She's the best of the mall") totally floored me. It might be the smartest, most confidently good-looking font promo piece I've ever seen. Major congrats and admiration on it.

hhp

Thanks Hrant.

Even though the majority of the products we represent and pitch are image-based, one of our goals is to make sure that type holds its own amidst all der schpiel and makes an equally powerful statement.

Grant

... lamenting the missed opportunities of those TypeCons of old.

Sigh.

I think I sounded way too smug; the key term in "Old School" up there is "old"... I missed all the conferences between the first and this one - so I'm actually pretty fringe. Other people have been toiling away throughout these years, building it up to the success it is now. Respect.

hhp

Hrant, I felt similarly about last year's conference which was my first. Maybe the first TypeCon--whichever one it was--will always have a special quality that can't be repeated.

As far as meatspace vs. online goes, when you talk to someone in person, you have much less opportunity to be misunderstood because you not only get the words, you also get body language, facial expression, tone of voice, etc., and it's much harder to forget another person's humanity when they're standing right in front of you.

I think a good portion of what passes as debate online simply comes down to the difficulty of communicating through such a limited medium as text. They touched on this a bit in the Underware Typeradio presentation.

I just wanna say how great of an experience my first TypeCon was. It was truly amazing and so much more than I could have expected and I'm now 100% sure that I'm doing the right thing with going back to school to study type. The best part was meeting so many people -- now I can hear your voices narrating when I read your posts.

Much respect to eveyone involved with puting on the show.

After having such a great time in Minneapolis, I was really upset having to miss this year's event. I may be a mere type fan and not a type designer, but nobody seemed to care. There I was having lunch with Mark Simonson or playing hearts with Steven Coles or signing Dave Farey's programme... just a bunch of font-geeks hanging out and talking about their passion without having to explain that, yes, someone actually has to design all those little letters they read every day.

I can't miss two years in a row. See you in 2005.