Do you remember Fontself? The project of Franz Hoffman and Marc Escher has gone a long way since its presentation at the Lift07 experience, under the supervision of Cristiana Bolli and an early implementation by Nicholas Wolff.

Check these guys out and give it a go on fontself.com.

Hi everyone!
We just wanted to thank you for the great feedback on FONTSELF during LIFT08!

All the personal handwritings are now alive and yours is on your LIFT account @ on liftconference.com

For more instructions on how to use it in your posts, go to the FONTSELF help page

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.

Bests,

Franz Hoffman & Marc Escher

FONTSELF
info@fontself.com
www.fontself.com

“Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.”, Gregg Easterbrook

Somebody suggested we add a "lift by the numbers" section on the site's about page, and I decided to act on this recommendation as it gives an perspective what has happened in the past three and a half years.

4'000 attendees from 60 countries.

8 events held on 3 continents in 3.5 years

2 million visits and 13.5M page views on liftconference.com per year (full stats)

450+ articles and interviews in national (TSR, Bilan, RSR, Swissinfo) and international (BBC, CBC, BusinessWeek, FastCompany, Wired, AFP, Europe1) media

200+ talks available free in video

5000+ members in the Lift community

180+ speakers from more than 40 countries

Lift @ home events happening in Toronto, Tokyo, Barcelona, London, San Francisco, Brussels, Barcelona, Zurich, New York, etc.

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I was looking for a trend on Google search earlier today, and quickly checked the impact of the Geneva conference on searches in Switzerland. Unsurprisingly there is a growing spike in searches, corresponding to the boost of traffic we have on our servers during the conference.

2009 (Lift09, Feb. 25-27)

2008 (Lift08, Feb. 6-8)

2007 (Lift07, Feb. 7-9)

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We added a new feature which allows you to see the archived pages of all past events.
Lift06, Lift07, Lift Asia 07, Lift08, Lift Asia 08, and Lift09 (the list is getting quite extensive!), all the pages are now migrated and accessible via a drop down menu. You can navigate each event's pages by using the links that will appear on the right.

You can now see Lift06's program and participants, the Lift07 experience (formerly known as Lift+), or the first ever Lift Asia homepage.

You can always easily guess each edition's web location, it is either /liftxx, /lift-asia-xx or /lift-france-xx where xx is the last 2 digits of the edition's year. Yes, easy.

Laurent Bolli, Cristiana Bolli Freitas

You all received a LIFT PACK. And this is our first step towards a LIFT book. With ideas, words, photos, posts, trends and pulse of LIFT moments.
We're looking for prizese,donations,and sponsors to help us producing the LIFT photophoto book, LIFT moments, LIFT magazine, LIFT lexicon, LIFTLAB, LIFTworkshops, LIFT ideas!

Website:
http://walabab.com

Patricia Armada, Mathias Forbach, Valentin Kissling, Pierre-Abraham Rochat, Gabriel Walt

Snake run is mixing digital and physical world in a healthy cardio game. It's a two players human scaled video game. Run across the playground, push the buttons to drive your snake on the gigant screen. Avoid collision with your enemy's snake, cut off its path and win!

Website:
http://www.snakerun.net

Cristiana Bolli-Freitas, Laurent Bolli, Elena Henriod, Nicholas Wolff

Up to you to use it and complete it. Afterward, a printed encyclopedia will give a quick radiography of the year’s lexicon. Online access and contribution will be encouraged through the website www.liftlexicon.com.

Website:
http://liftlexicon.com

Architecture and media lab (EPFL) visions about the future of banking.

Professor:Jeffrey Huang

Assistants: Isabelle Bentz, Nicole Hatz, Reto Liechti, Mark Meagher

Students: Damien Balleys, Baco Beaujolin, Kristian Bettermann, Jerome Clerc, Patrick Decaro, Bruno Duarte, Philippe Dubost, Sonja Huber, Christian Schoepp, Mareike Seyfang, Palma Sotomayor, Carlo Volp

Website:
http://www.interactivecity.ch