It was a little more than a month ago that I purchased my ticket to TYPO on a whim. Yep. Lots of money out the door for a design conference. But as my husband said (read: justified the purchase to me after experiencing a spell of buyer's remorse) "We live in San Francisco. You need to take advantage of things like this." And he's right.
For those of you who may not be familiar with names like Neville Brody, Erik Spiekermann, Tina Roth Eisenberg, Michael Bierut, Jessica Hische, and many others, they are the Steve Jobs' and George Lucas' of my design world. I'm going to see these people talk. In person.
To make things more exciting, a couple of weeks ago, I answered a call for volunteers for the TYPO Press Team. So now, not only do I find myself attending TYPO, I'll be blogging / tweeting throughout various sessions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts during the 2 days. And I get a free ticket for next year's conference. Worth it? I think so.
If you're sad to be missing the action, you can follow my tweets at @bfrancesi or catch me on the Font Shop blog. I'll be in design heaven.