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Erik Spiekermann (born May 30 1947) is a German typographer and designer.
Spiekermann studied art history at Berlin's Free University, funding himself by running a hot metal printing press in the basement of his house. Between 1972 and 1979, he worked as a freelance graphic designer in London before returning to Berlin and founding MetaDesign with two partners. Although undergoing several reinventions and restarts, the firm's clientele includes Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, Audi, Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Nike, with offices in Berlin, San Francisco, and Zurich.
Notable works
Spiekermann designed the seminal Meta typeface (available at FontShop), arguably the most popular digital typeface of the 1990s, and co-authored the classic treatise on modern typography Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works. He also participated in the creation of numerous corporate identities and other works, including redesigns of the publications The Economist and Reason.
Further reading
- Erik Spiekermann, E. M. Ginger: Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, Adobe Press, 2002. ISBN 0201703394
- Fay Sweet: MetaDesign: Design from the Word Up, Thames and Hudson, 1999. ISBN 0500019630
- Erik Spiekermann, M. Klein, Y. Schwemmer-Scheddin: Type and Typographers, Phaidon Press, 1991. ISBN 1854548484
External links
Graphic designers | 1947 births | Living people | German people
"Erik Spiekermann"