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21. Erik Spiekermann - Putting Back the Face into Typeface
1 year ago
Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades.

Next to founding MetaDesign and FontShop, the latter being the first ever digital distributor of fonts, and designing more instant classic typefaces than any other, he has been recognized as an outstanding expert internationally as a lecturer and professor.

Listen to the design genius talk about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture in our latest Gestalten.tv video and you will easily realize why. Before heading to new visionary pastures, the bike enthusiast will make a short stop to receive the German Design Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 in February.

Watch our complete line up of video interviews on gestalten.tv

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  • Alexander Mielke 1 year ago
    very inspiring, thx
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  • sauro spagnol 1 year ago
    Metaerik!
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  • Stefan Hornof 1 year ago
    wonderful!
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  • Paulo Catumba 1 year ago
    loved it!
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  • Stefan Voigt 1 year ago
    Großartig!
    Danke :)
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  • patrick drake 1 year ago
    beautifully put erik
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  • mpared plus 1 year ago
    great stuff its up at thecuriousbrain.com/
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  • Miguel Hernández 1 year ago
    Thanks for this great interview.
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  • Christian Jakob 1 year ago
    Wundervolles Interview. Tausend Dank!
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  • angela jernejcic 1 year ago
    well-said, well-said. now how to get this to all design students out there?
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  • adriana mullen 1 year ago
    Excellent!
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  • LoStudio8 1 year ago
    I love this man.
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  • RENATO MARQUES plus 1 year ago
    A must see! Thanks for sharing!
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  • Sehr nettes Video. Daumen hoch!
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  • Andrea Ubaldi 1 year ago
    Designing and talking as only a living legend can do!
    Thx 4 sharing!
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  • Jake Williams plus 1 year ago
    Some really great ideas here on open client communication, very insightful! Great work!
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  • Juan Gomez 1 year ago
    Bravo!
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  • Dimitris Christou 1 year ago
    Thanks for sharing!
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  • Mizotion Creative 1 year ago
    Really like this interview, he could have so easily given his opinion on typography without giving away his opinions on other subjects such as politics but he was really sincere and open as well as informative.

    Thanks for sharing.
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  • Eduardo Moura 1 year ago
    It's always good to listen to Mr. Spiekermann, every minute he speaks is like a million classes worth.
    And the interview itself is very well produced, richly illustrated with some of his masterpieces. Thank you very much for sharing.
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  • Gestalten plus 1 year ago
    Thanks everyone to all of your amazing feedback! It almost pained us to have to edit the interview down the interview to 15 minutes! It could've easily been 45 minutes!
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  • Markus Vad Flaaten 1 year ago
    Great! Sketch will never die.
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  • Daniel Nelson 11 months ago
    Great stuff, added it to one of my typography galleries at From up North: fromupnorth.com/2011/03/typography-inspiration-211/

    ;)
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  • Sam Ellens 11 months ago
    That was great. The Bush election comment was pure gold.
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  • lovo 10 months ago
    this is inspring!
    i've got the same hohner press at the right!
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  • simone 10 months ago
    Truly wonderful!
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  • Jasmin Halkić 8 months ago
    nice
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  • Rafael Oliveira 7 months ago
    Fascinating
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  • Silo88 plus 5 months ago
    This is amazing. Love it.
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  • Ricky Thakrar 5 months ago
    Was hoping to hear more specific content, having heard a lot of these general views in Helvetica (the feature-length documentary) - hopefully he'll cover more specific topics in videos at some point...
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  • François Mathey plus 4 months ago
    Great, very interesting :)
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  • Piotr Denys 4 months ago
    Herr Spiekermann is a hero. Why the hell is such a man such a rarity?
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  • Alexandra Oliver 3 months ago
    This video is amazing! i am brazilian but I had the pleasure to watch it on the train, on my way to berlin, then when i got there i really understood the magic. I wrote a blog post on it, if anyone is interessested,

    oliverstuff.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/como-ser-o-melhor-que-voce-pode-ser-no-mercado-aprenda-com-erik-spierkermann-design/
    thank you
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