Indices : Conferences : Ampersand Conference

Ampersand is a conference specifically focussing on web typography. It is held in the Brighton, UK and organised by Clearleft, a web design consultancy based in Brighton.

Ampersand is billed as:

An affordable one-day event for knowledgable web designers & type enthusiasts.

The inaugural event will be held on Friday June 17th in the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton, UK.

The line up will be:

• Vincent Connare, creator of Comic Sans
• Jon Tan, web designer at Analog & cofounder of Fontdeck
• Jonathan Hoefler, president of Hoefler & Frere Jones
• David Berlow, type designer & cofounder of The Font Bureau
• Tim Brown, type manager for Typekit & maker of Nice Web Type
• John Daggett, Firefox developer & editor of the CSS3 Fonts Module
• Mark Porter, former creative director of guardian.co.uk

More information at http://ampersandconf.com/