July 6, 2007
I almost forgot to mention this, but I recently won an award for Best Feature photograph by the Washington Community College Journalism Association! Out of the entire state of Washington and all of its community college newspapers, my photo was selected as the best!
Woo Hoo!
The photo was of the band Sigur Rós who performed at Benaroya Hall here in Seattle last year. The show was friggin awesome, and the lighting crew did all of the work, but I don’t mind taking credit for the awesome photos I took there. Thanks Sigur Rós!
July 5, 2007
Starting Monday, July 30, I get to help volunteer for NerdfestTypecon 2007, which is coming to Seattle this year. My roomate is giving me the hardest time about being excited for this, but so what? It’s gonna be fun.
The following speakers will be attending. Let’s see if I can recognize even a few names…
- Christine Ahonen
- Marian Bantjes
- Ali Basit
- Jared Benson – Typophile guy?
- David Berlow – The boss at the Font Bureau
- John D. Berry – NW writer about graphic design at Creativepro.com
- Roger Black
- Robert Bringhurst – Author of the Elements of Typographic Style. I saw him earlier this year and had it autographed!
- Jorge de Buen
- Veronika Burian
- Emilie Burnham
- Andrew Byrom
- Leslie Cabarga – Author of the Logo, Font, and Lettering Bible. Maybe I’ll get him to sign mine?
- Matthew Carter – Creator of the typeface that you are reading. And Verdana. And Charter. And Galliard. Need I say more?
- Nadine Chahine
- Art Chantry
- Karen Cheng – Author of the book Designing Type. Another sig?
- Nancy Sharon Collins
- Leonardo Vázquez Conde
- Carl Crossgrove – Designer of the typeface Beorcana.
- Simon Daniels – Program Manager of Microsoft’s Typography Group. Lives here in Seattle. Hi Si!
- John Downer
- Mike Duggan
- Rodney Shelden Fehsenfeld
- Laura Franz
- Jimmy Gallagher
- Tim Girvin
- Shelley Gruendler
- Bruce Hale – NW designer and hand-letterer. I recently met him at my school. Cool guy.
- Allan Haley
- Chris Han
- Bill Hill
- Cyrus Highsmith – Another Font Bureau guy
- Gary Hustwit
- Grant Hutchinson – A typophile
- Mark Jamra
- Richard Kegler – P22 Founder
- Akira Kobayashi – Designer of FF Clifford and head honcho of typography at Linotype.
- Kevin Larson – Research guy from Microsoft’s Typography group
- Mikhail Leonov
- Karl Leuthold
- Peter Lofting
- Emily Luce
- Pete McCracken
- Karen Madsen
- Sergey Malkin
- Anastasios Maragiannis
- Frank J. Martinez
- Steve Matteson
- Gabriel Martínez Meave
- Jeremy Mende
- Edward Mendelson
- Eric Menninga
- Susan Merritt
- James Montalbano – Designer of Clearview Highway typefaces, the new ones being used for highway signage around the US and the world.
- Carl Montford – NW Letterpress guy
- Paul Nini
- Amy Papaelias
- Jon Parker
- Mike Parker
- Carolyn Parsons
- Joseph Pemberton – A typophile
- Thomas Phinney – Adobe’s Product Manager for Fonts & Global Typography. Lives here in Seattle. I had lunch with him a while back. Great guy. Hi Thomas!
- Pamela Pfiffner
- Will Powers
- Robynne Raye
- Amy Redmond
- Jay Rutherford
- Judy Safran-Aasen
- Aida Sakkal
- Mamoun Sakkal
- Murray Sargent
- Dan Shafer
- Juliet Shen
- Nick Sherman
- Nick Shinn – Type designer at Shinntype.com
- Miguel Sousa – Type designer for Adobe
- Jessica Spring
- Cary Staples
- Michael Strassburger
- Ilene Strizver
- Adam Twardoch – Fontlab programmer/guru
- Jim Wasco
- Jenny Wilkson
- Spyros Zevelakis
- Chris Zodrow
22 out of 86? That’s 25% baby!
Not bad for off the top of my head, eh? I’ve only met a few of them personally, but I recognize the others. Out of all of them though, Matthew Carter is clearly the Top Dawg. He’s one of the few living greats among type designers, including Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger who are amazingly still alive and Robert Slimbach of Adobe. It will be so cool to meet him!
Anyway, I get to help lug around boxes and set up tables, etc. At least, that’s what I figure I’ll do. I know that Sii has set me up with a Mariner’s ticket to the Red Sox, so that will be awesome. Since I live here, maybe I’ll get a chance to lead some people around? Who knows?
Typecon 2007
August 1-5
Crown Plaza, Seattle