Sweet Swiss Synergy at Seattle's TypeCon

Type couldn’t be having a better year, what with a documentary about a certain profit-plumping typeface traveling the globe, and this year’s TypeCon will be reveling in all that glory August 1-5 in Seattle. A very low conference rate gets you this striking identity—Marian Bantjes‘ “The Thing,” above–a gazillion big names and a screening of Helvetica (of course) that’s open to the public on August 1. Which, as our sources tell us, is also Swiss National Day.