I'm going to Vancouver for ATypI.
'fraid this year's AIGA theme of celebrity soul-searching turns me right off.

I've not been to an AIGA conference, but Matt Warburton of the GDC had this advice for people torn between ATypI and AIGA:

If you are interested specifically in type and want to learn stuff, go to ATypI.

If you are interested in general graphic design and want to look at stuff (designer show and tell, was the phrase Matt used), go to the AIGA.

If you're not torn, come to both

ATypI is going to do it's best in future not to end up in the same city as the AIGA.

> ATypI is going to ....

I don't get it - are you back on the Board?
Or are you moving to Prague to help organize the next one? :-)

hhp

I'm following Nick's lead and going to ATypI rather than AIGA. (This will be my first ATypI since 1994 in San Francisco - I still recall being momentarily stunned after absent-mindedly wandering through a billowing plume of Neville Brody's cigarette smoke...)

However, I do believe that Veer will be sending at least of couple of our designer-types to the annual AIGA square-dance.

I don't get it - are you back on the Board?

No, this was decided months ago, when we realised that AIGA would be comming to Vancouver one month after ATypI. In future, this kind of situation will be avoided if at all possible.