Speaker Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann is information architect and type designer (FF Meta, ITC 0fficina, FF Info, FF Govan, LoType, Berliner Grotesk, etc). He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign and of Fontshop (1988). He holds a professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is Vice­President of the German Design Council, member of the Board of Directors of ATypl and President of the International Institute of Information Design. Erik now works as a freelance consultant and lives in Berlin, London and San Francisco.