Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Erik Spiekermann Typography - SAM





Erik Spiekermann

Born 1947, studied History of Art and English in Berlin. He is information architect, type designer (FF Meta, FF MetaSerif, ITC Officina, FF Govan, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk and many corporate typefaces) and author of books and articles on type and typography. He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany's largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. Projects included corporate design programmes for Audi, Skoda, Volkswagen, Lexus, Heidelberg
Printing and way finding projects like Berlin Transit, Düsseldorf Airport and many others. In 1988 he started FontShop, a company for production and distribution of electronic fonts. Erik is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council and Past President of the ISTD, International Society of Typographic Designers, as well as the IIID. In 2001 he left MetaDesign and is now a partner in Edenspiekermann with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, London and San Francisco.

Links -
www.fontshop.com/fonts/designer/erik_spiekermann/
www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/.../ErikSpiekermann.htm
www.planet-typography.com/news/.../spiekermann.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Spiekermann
spiekermann.com/

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