To the left Ben Kiel demystifies python scripts, why to write them, and how to use them. His slides seem to be designed with United, from House Industries, for whom he now works.
Since my first ATypI 2006 photo/link entry, which I posted while I still in Lisbon, a number of newer goodies have shown up online that recount parts of the conference very well. For instance, there is the Russian-language blog mailart.ru, whose site I hadn’t seen before. They’ve posted images from several of the lectures held at this year’s ATypI conference. They clearly have better digital cameras than I do. Very few of my lecture photos came out well. But I don’t have to worry about that any more.
Below is my second round of ATypI Lisbon links…
Mailart.ru
http://www.mailart.ru/?p=60 (Verena Gerlach)
http://www.mailart.ru/?p=59 (Newspaper Design Forum)
http://www.mailart.ru/?p=58 (Massimo Vignelli)
http://www.mailart.ru/?p=56 (Erik Spiekermann’s Substitute-Keynote)
http://www.mailart.ru/?p=57 (Francois Chastanet)
http://www.mailart.ru/?p=53 (Conference exhibitions)
Bald Condensed
Yves Peters’s Unzipped column on the FontShop Benelux site is normally written in Flemish, but occasionally, an English article comes along and these are always worth the wait. Here is his review of the first day of the conference – http://www.fontshop.be/details.php?entry=84, and his review of the second day – http://www.fontshop.be/details.php?entry=85. More are certain to follow.
Jerrold Maddox’s Photo Page
http://www.personal.psu.edu/jxm22/lisbon/1.html
Luc Devroye
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/atypi06.html (Text report)
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/atypi2006-lisbon-public/ (Picture report)
Bummer that I lost my “best hair” trophy. My hair is actually quite longer now than it was in Prague, the first time that Luc mentioned that my hairdo was a conference highlight.
Pleasingly, Luc—who coincidentally visited a couple of Typostammtische a few years ago—mentions Karsten Lücke in his report, who also coincidentally visited a couple of Typostammtische a few years ago. Doubly worth noting, since Karsten sadly was just at the TypeTech Forum prior the conference, and not at the main conference itself. (Although he did stick around town a few days into the conference… with a city a beautiful as Lisbon, can you blame him?)
Luc, who did not attend the TypeTech Forum due to his dislike of OpenType, mentioned Karsten in his report because of the brilliant Litteratra typeface, which was used for half of the conference identity. Too bad that such a great OpenType font like Litteratra, which has somewhere around 1,800 glyphs inside of it, isn’t enough to convince Luc of the format’s real benefits. Litteratra is sold through Village; here is a direct link to its page there.
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10 responses to “More ATypI ’06 Links”
>Luc, who did not attend the TypeTech Forum due to his dislike of OpenType
I think he’s just a bit embarrassed that after rubbishing the format for several years it’s proved to be successful. Also I don’t think he likes Adobe or Microsoft. But if you don’t like OpenType attending any font technical training these days would be a deeply depressing thing to do.
Oh, I’m not so sure… I thought that there was quite a lot of information presented during the forum that was general to all font formats, type design, and process. Of course, some of the tricks discussed only work for OT fonts, but the rest?
I think that it isn’t a bad thing that the Forum is much smaller than the conference. The Forum seems very specific: for those who make fonts, and those who want to learn how to make fonts. ATypI conference attendees who are more interested in typography in general are probably much better served by the main conference program.
Oh, I’m not so sure…
You could be right, I wasn’t there, but the talk titles seemed to be OT-centric. Agree with you points about the forum being different from the main event. I’d like to do something similar with TypeCon, but it’s more tricky given the pre-conference workshop tradition of the event.
Of course, there was a lot of OpenType to talk about, and I love OpenType. But I tailored my schedule to what I thought would be the best for me to learn from. Here are the lectures that I attended: “Advanced MM applications”, “Advanced MM theory”, “Trick Like a Tsar”, “Kern like the King: FLS5 Metrics Window”, “The ubiquitous EULA”, “Gathering script information as a collaborative community”, “CSS font families”, “Adventures in class kerning”, and the “Python Scripting tutorial”.
Not too much OpenType there, but there were other, more OT-centric talks on the schedule. During these slots, I spent time in discussion with other designers and colleagues instead, another great opportunity that the more intimate TypeTech Forum allowed for.
Spot on Dan, United was the face that I used for my presentation.
Thomas Phinney has uploaded PDFs of his presentations to his weblog at Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2006/10/atypi_2006_pres.html
We’ll continue ITP conference publications on http://www.mailart.ru/?cat=4
Unfortunately only in Russian…
Thanks Oleg! Don’t forget to mention Fred Smeijers & Eric Kindel – http://www.mailart.ru/?p=67
Yves Peter’s report of the second half of the conference’s second day is now online at fontshop.be – http://www.fontshop.be/details.php?entry=87
Yves serves up Day Three’s Report:
http://www.fontshop.be/details.php?entry=86