German typographer Erik Spiekermann is a legend in his field, and until recently, the closest his work would ever get to the fashion world was if someone licensed the fonts he’d designed for a ...

Join us for an evening lecture with world reknowned designer, letterpress printer, and bicycle enthusiast Erik Spiekermann. At p98a.berlin, we develop new production methods (laser plate maker, ...

An example of Bauhaus type and poster design (all images courtesy of Adobe and Bauhaus Dessau) Plenty of work was left unfinished when Bauhaus Dessau was closed abruptly in 1932 by the National ...

Adobe is releasing five fonts based on designs by prolific Bauhaus figures, which have been revived by German typographer Erik Spiekermann and a group of students. The typeface designs were "lost to ...

Designers should be interpreters between the corporate world and normal consumers. After Spiekermann revealed to us some of his best productivity tips in a recent article, we wanted to know more about ...

Here's the deal, these letters you're seeing on your screen were, believe it or not, designed by someone. Each slight curve, straight line, and abrupt stop give a letter its shape and eventual meaning ...

Late October 2012, the board of the Hamilton Wood Type, the largest vintage wood-type repository and museum in the United States, was notified they had six months to pack up and move out of 35,000 ...

In the second part of today's collaboration between Virtual Design Festival and Forward Festival, Erik Spiekermann shares seven propositions for designers to remember. "I was looking forward to, for ...

Spiekermann has worked with Audi, Volkswagen and Skoda (amongst others), was responsible for the redesign of The Economist and has created font families for Nokia and Deutshce Bahn. Closer to (our) ...