This article was published in Blueprint magazine in 2011 (too lazy to check which issue exactly). It was then re-published by John Boardley in his Codex magazine, albeit slightly edited. I re-re-publ...
It really wasn’t designed for small sizes on screens. Words like milliliter can be very difficult to decipher. If you ever had to read or write a password with 1, i, l or I, you know the problem. Tha...
If you cook recipes from a US cookbook, you need to use measurements that seem archaic to a metrified European like myself. They use cups for liquid measurements. US fluid ounces are different from U...
A bunch of old guys on stage in New York: Roger Black, Matthew Carter, Paul Shaw and Erik Spiekermann. Moderated by Maxim Zhukov.
FF MetaSerif Pro: characterset runs to 5 pages now with Cyrillic et al: bit.ly/zwavJI — erik spiekermann (@espiekermann) January 18, 2012
Our bookshelves in Berlin run over two floors. The only way to get to them is by using a harness.
If you – like me – have more than one book and never know how to arrange them, watch this movie. It was made by the owners of Type bookstore in Toronto.
Creative Arte TV gave me 8 minutes to draw my ideal studio space. For those of you who have already commented on the practical issues, like where the daylight might come from and where the toilets ar...
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Now and again, Blueprint magazine publishes one of my monthly columns on their website. This is the November column. ONCE I KNOW what topic I want to (or have to) write about, the most critical decis...
This seems to be a “trending topic”. Just read about seven tips by Mark McGuinness to avoid Creative Block (yes, captitalized) and went on to look what I had written to Alex Cornell two years ago whe...
My old Rivendell road bike was stolen in June. I’d had it for a long time and losing it did hurt. I think stealing a bicycle like that is more than just a little misdemeanour; it is a wicked crime an...
John sends occasional messages to a list of friends. This particular one arrived on Sunday, September 11, 2011. All the sunday papers were full of statements, predictions, analysis and opinions about...
Normally, I don’t believe in horoscopes, Tarot cards, clouds in my coffee or reading the lines in my hand. Except when it suits me. When Jesi Khadivi from Soma Magazine asked me to send him a scan of...
Here’s a video showing how it works. You can get the app from iTunes.
There are lots of videos about me or by me or by us out there, and not all of them are easy to find. Vimeo now offers this great script that just puts these small previews together, so I thought I ma...
Stephen Coles interviewed me about the history of FontShop.
Christiane Scheibe Pluriversum made this video featuring the typefaces and icons we designed for the relaunch of ZDF’s heute news programme in 2009. The motion graphics werde done by Velvet in Munich.
This is a piece I originally wrote for my Achtung column in Blueprint magazine. When John Boardley asked me to contribute to his forthcoming magazine Codex, I was too busy to write anything from scra...
MyFonts obviously have no quality control whatsoever. Or they would have noticed that the typeface they published under the name Silkstone was not only a blatant imitation of my ITC Officina, but tha...
A new typeface that is introduced with such bad grammar (it should be “elegantly styled…” and “sophisicated” instead of “sophisticated” is a dead give-away) is off to a bad start. It only takes one l...
I clicked the button on Art Bollocks Generator which came up with this: My work explores the relationship between emerging sexualities and life as perfomance. With influences as diverse as Wittgenste...
I have just returned from the OFFF festival in Barcelona. Earlier this year, they asked me for a statement about the future. They announced this the Year Zero, a restart. Go back to zero, wipe out th...
Lasko Dzurovski from Macedonia just sent me this portrait of myself, all done in characters from FF Meta. I don’t know how Lasko finds the time to do this, but it is pretty amazing. The original is v...
In the light of the recent replacement of the typeface we designed for Nokia in 2001/2002 (with added weights and production design by Monotype) here is a PDF I made as a first presentation of the co...
When we were putting up the exhibition of my work at the Bauhaus-Archive in Berlin, Thomas Maier took this photograph of me (ca. 1988) holding up a photograph of me holding up a proof of ITC Correspo...
John gave this short speech on the occasion of me receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from the German Design Council. John Walters Andrej Kupetz and Erik Spiekermann When I went to Berlin a coup...
Their words, not mine. Gestalten.tv made this interview with me at our house in Berlin. Graphic design can change your life from Edenspiekermann on Vimeo.
We have been designing for Tcho since before the company even had a name. Nice to see the brand and the great product getting the recognition it deserves:
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