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Erik Spiekermann

Recent articles about Erik Spiekermann

Postmodern jam sessionIssue 83, Summer 2012
Feature

	Jan Middendorp recalls Fuse, the type ‘magazine’ that opened up (and put the lid on) a transient…
Six degrees of Erik SpiekermannIssue 74, Winter 2009
Feature

	Visit Berlin, and it won’t be long before you encounter Erik Spiekermann. His…
      
Meta’s tectonic manIssue 18, Autumn 1995
Feature

	In Erik Spiekermann’s hands, typographic design is a tool for rendering the world more accessible…
      
Beyond typographyIssue 15, Winter 1994
Feature

	Fuse’s talented team is on an inspired quest to ‘Make it new!’ But what is the project really…
The digital waveIssue 7, Summer 1992
Feature

	The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production through most of this century…
Stamps and the public interestIssue 9, Summer 1993
Review

	Since Rowland Hill’s introduction of the Penny Black in 1840, the postage stamp…
      
Typography’s new priestsIssue 1, Autumn 1990
Review

	‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford…

Recent blog posts by Erik Spiekermann

Hacking Gutenberg

13 March 2019

Eye’s Type Tuesday about 21st-Century letterpress featured Double Dagger, The Counter Press and Erik Spiekermann. A splendid time was had by all

Erik Spiekermann opened his talk at Type Tuesday on 5 March 2019 with some ruminations on the subject of craft: ‘Craft, skill, trade, vocation: The human impulse to make something for its own sake, to do it as well as you can,’ writes John L. Walters.

Noted #75

13 May 2016

I Like Birds in Trittau; Mucho’s Tenderloin; Cercle on Costumes and P98a Paper’s Zombies of Berlin

Here is a small selection of graphic design for galleries and museums and magazines that caught our attention in recent weeks.

Talking about the A-Word

13 May 2013

John O’Reilly reports from day one of the inaugural Point Conference in London, where the designated theme was ‘authenticity’.

There was a little thought-bubble that imagined Erik Spiekermann carving out his lecture, live, on his body, Sagmeister-style, so that the first Point Conference’s attendees would swoon at his bloody authenticity, writes John O’Reilly. But I was glad he didn’t.

Type Tuesday: Forward to page 1

19 June 2012

Managing (Great) expectations with a mix of ‘Pecha Kucha and speed dating’

A thought-provoking evening at the Design Museum marked the launch of Page 1: Great Expectations, the first publication by GraphicDesign&, writes Caroline Roberts.

From sideline to centre stage

11 April 2012

TYPO San Francisco shows the way digressions can become the main event

The level of talks at TYPO San Francisco was uniformly high, writes John D. Berry (also a speaker at the conference). Both days were opened by lively, inspiring women: Tina Roth Eisenberg (below, aka SwissMiss) and Jessica Hische on the second.