Colophon 2009

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Over 2,000 people attending the Colophon 2007 weekend:
520 Flash Passers, 540 Daily or Week-end Tickets, additional 380 for the opening and additional 620 for the Eclectic Electro Pop Party.

Flash passers came from 25 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, USA .

24 hours of talks, including 3 panel discussions, 8 conferences and 15 portfolios shows.

5 exhibitions on 3 floors, including the 10 Magazines Squared, the Magazine Graveyard, the Tributes to "Magazine" and "X non Magazine" as well as the projection of 1,001 Covers in the entrance hall.

The Room with a View temporary magazine store: Hans Fellner from Fellner Art Books sold 867 copies of 90 different magazines. Another 4,500 copies of 70 magazines have been distributed for free over the weekend.

4 Workshops: "This should be made public", the project by shift! publisher Anja Lutz, with nearly 400 proposals created by the visitors of the symposium as well as by the students form the FH Trier Design (Prof. Andreas Hogan) and LT des Beaux-Arts Luxembourg (teacher Marianne Grisse), the Colophon Magazine by Amsterdam based art director Luis Mendo from Goodinc and two workshops for kids from 6-12 years, was very successful.