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Erik Spiekermann is internationally recognised as a leading typographer, information designer and graphic designer.
Spiekermann, born in 1947, financed his studies in Art History at Berlin's Free University by running a printing press and setting metal type in the basement of his house. He started typedesign by redrawing old hot metal faces from the Berthold library, back in the 70's: LoType and Berliner Grotesk.
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After having spent seven years as a freelance designer in London, he returned to Berlin in 1979, where, together with two partners, he founded MetaDesign. MetaDesign specialize in complex, often large, corporate design programmes and information systems, including new media, online and offline; all with strong emphasis on typography. MetaDesign's work has influced a generation of designers and decision-makers.
 From Erik Spiekermann's creation of the widely used 'meta' tyepface, designed by Erik Spiekermann, has often been referred to as the 'Helvetica of the 90's'. It originated in a font that he was designing for the German Post Office. MetaDesign has created some of the most memorable information design systems of the past 20 years.
In 1989, Erik founded FontShop International, publishers of the FontFont library, including one of his own designs, FF Meta, one of the most popular typefaces in the USA and Europe. Another of his typefaces, ITC Officina, seems to be on every other webpage these days and FF Info, his latest effort, has been chosen for the way- finding system of a major European airport. He started typedesign by redrawing old hot metal faces from the Berthold library, back in the 70's: LoType and Berliner Grotesk.
Erik has written numerous articles and four books about type and typography, which have appeared both in Europe and in the USA, including 'Stop Stealing Sheep' for Adobe Press.
 He is a member of the board of directors of the ATypI, member of the Type Directors Club New York, The Art Directors Club, honorary member of the Typographic Circle London, D&AD, Fellow of the International Society of Typographic Designers UK, Vice-President of the German Design Council, President of the IIID, International Institute for Information Design, and many more.
He holds an Honorary Professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen and teaches workshops at design schools across the world.
His entertaining lectures and often controversial participation in judging competitions have gained him international reputation as one of Germany's leading communication designers. Erik's work and that of MetaDesign have been credited as offering a blend of Teutonic efficiency and Anglosaxon sense of humour.
In August 2000, Erik left MetaDesign Berlin and now works as a freelance design consultant in Berlin, London and San Francisco.
Further information...
address: Prof. Erik Spiekermann, Motzstrasse 58, 10777 Berlin, Germany
tel: +49-30-214 730 27
fax: +49-30-213 97 46
email:
web: www.spiekermann.com
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