Tonight I just found almost 3’000 pictures…. under LIFT08 tag! If you really want to find your portrait, that nice and particular moment you have in mind, I suggest you check LIFT’s flickr account.

The pictures on this account were taken by our VETERANS photographers, the official from LIFT : David Gagnebins de bons,Sonia Channel, John, Ben, Geraldine…Bread and butter team and a few friends.

You’ll find the SOLO USER photos, SPEAKERS PHOTOS, LIFTEXPERIENCE PROJECTS…even last edition pictures.

Well…if don’t find what you’re looking for there…then….well, then you have to search around!

Hope this will help you all!

Hi everyone!

All the personal handwritings are now alive and yours is on your LIFT account @ http://www.liftconference.com
For more instructions on how to use it in your posts, go to:
http://www.liftconference.com/fontself-website-usage

Remember that this is still a work in progress, so there will be some strange looks sometimes, but, hey!, isn't it fun anyway!?
So, we are looking forward to see the results, and do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions or comments.

I just wanted to thank you for the great feedback on FONTSELF during LIFT08!
If you still don't know where to find the fontsel boys:
here below where to complain, ask, talk, help, and meet fontself designers:

Franz Hoffman & Marc Escher
info@fontself.com

A big thanks for all of you! for your nice words, kindness and …understanding! Hope you go home with tones of great moments to remember!!

Another official request from LIFT art director…to all participants!!

LIFT is not only about digital bits. Share with the lift community the message that touched you most last year in your online environments. Copy-paste the touching message, post, author or comment and send it to editor@liftconference.com We will then print a magazine during the conference!

Digital content is very fragile and can easily be corrupted, copied or altered, and because we believe in the value of printed materials as a good way to keep a track of an experience like LIFT, we decided to print, during the conference, various booklets, simply printed and binded. For visual thinkers like us, the booklet is also a good way to show drawings and photos in a better quality than on a screen, also to use, for example, the fontself project and to question some ideas…big ideas from our speakers! These booklets are part of a collection which content will be published together in a more sophisticated book….oh yeahhh…one day will get there!

This project began during LIFT07. Not so empty book is part of “Artist’s Work in Progress Projects”, supported by Swiss Conféderation , Office Féderal de la Culture, sitemapping. more projects here: http://www.letearoom.ch

Official request from LIFT art director…to all participants!!

Among other fascinating works in (never-ending) progress projects I will present, here is a thrilling community challenge: FONTSELF is a type project about handwriting and drawn writing. It provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, very thick brushes, very thin special pens,etc.).

FONTSELF will allow us to create a unique LIFT08 font, composed on the handwriting of the LIFT community !!!

Please please please help me nurture that LIFT08 font. Participating is as easy as 1-2-3 and will take you 10 Mins -if you wish to spend more time is up to you:

1. Open the PDF attached, print it.
2. Read the instructions and fill in all the fields required
3. Scan your 2 Handwriting-Font-pages and send them to surprise@liftconference.com.

deadline? Yesterday…but will make our best if you send us the pages till the 5th, 8am Thank you very much!!!

LIFT SONG
A project from LIFT Experience

The idea is simple: every attendee lifted by the conference atmosphere and drive will have to imagine brief lyrics to the LIFT 08 soundtrack. At the LIFT SONG recording booth in the activity room, you will record your own voice/song/lyrics/ guitar track over the LIFT 08 soundtrack track in a 20 seconds mp3 format, it will then be sent to you by email maybe even available on the website. The whole process should take less than 3 minutes per person.

After receiving your track it is highly recommended you use and abuse your LIFT SONG during the conference, for instance using it as a ringtone, blog post, computer noise, whistle-a-long, klaxon melody, live cover at the local pub, air guitar, etc.

Participants will automatically be selected for the 2008 LIFT SONG CONTEST who’s price will be awarded at the end of the conference.

So don’t be shy, give it a try! It is your once in lifetime chance to become a no hit wonder.

check: www.soundsgood.fr , musical projects

So, let's say, LIFT look and feel happens to be about people.
OK. It sounds logical. You can see a lot of people in the background!

But it's hard to see it as a background (like a pattern or color)
when you actually know all of these people! ( they look like real, no?)
I see them talking, walking, eating, discussing, reading.
I remember nice moments, I experience something more
meaningful than a nice design.

Well, I always hope so. The same way I believe we never
discuss as much as we should about visual power, which is something huge.
This is suposed to be a -post- so, Instead of discussing, I invite you to explore.
Get your eyes scrolling and looking for individuals that looks like someone you know!
It's a funny and easy thing to do while talking over the phone!

how it all started:
During one of my visits to Seoul, I got lost - it's easy to get lost there.
This time it was with Julian (bleecker) and Laurent (bolli not haug) trying to find a place that was in fact closed. By chance we found a nice bookshop. Very nice one. Kind of place full of books about art + design+graphic design in Asia.
Quite interesting.

There was a post card, full of drawings, black and white simple drawings
of people, academic studies fixed on the door. And immediatly
I knew - don't ask me why- that this card would be the starting point of the new look and feel for LIFT. I kept looking at Julian and Laurent but at that moment
I was seeing the community (all of us) faces getting together.
I found myself looking for drawing books: portraits, details, different strokes.

I bought one book. Absolute nothing to do with portraits...
But I got the image! The one that was on the door. And everything started.

Don't you think we're quite powerful together?
Hope you enjoy it!

While you are in Seoul, don’t miss one of the city’s most interesting event of the year, organized by the Nabi Art Center people: Party2007.

The event will gather international artists and feature presentations and workshops on intriguing themes like SMS by humans, Skateboard generated music or the mysterious joy of mixology.

Get your ticket now (full pass is only 120’000KRW, 125$ for three days!), and if you really can’t leave the comfort of your home some videos will be made available here.