Pangram wall
The Pangram Wall will run throughout the conference
Timothy Donaldson encourages the attendees of the 2007 ATypI conference to get involved in the creation of a new collection of pangrams; sentences that contain every letter of the alphabet. These pangrams will be verified as new with a long list in Timothy's possession and if genuinely new, he will write them to a large wall space.
A pangram is a phrase which contains all the letters of an alphabet. 'The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog' is probably the best-known pangram in English. It has 33 letters. 'Better' pangrams have fewer letters and/or are funnier or weirder.
Timothy invites pangrams from all languages that use an alphabet and will write them in the language and alphabet in which they are submitted. A space will be left after each one for the author to sign. The whole thing will be made available as a text file after the conference.
This project is similar to the Audience-generated narrative Timothy wrote on the walls of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna which is extensively documented at his website.
Here's another of Timothy's projects:
This project is a return to ATypI for Timothy Donaldson, who ran a 'big writing' project at ATypI Reading, also in the UK, in 1997. Pictures from that project are available here.