Q&A with Erik Spiekermann

Erik Spiekermann, author, printer, typedesigner, founder of MetaDesign & FontShop, now CEO of Edenspiekermann in Amsterdam Berlin and San Francisco

Hardware

Printing presses, wooden and metal type, Macintosh computers, digital printers, scanners, drills, saws…

Software

Macintosh OSX, Photoshop, Indesign, Text Edit, FontExplorer, Fontlab, Glyphs …

Dream setup

The one I have in my new workshop in Berlin: lots of printing presses with computers, digital printers, type. Mixing the digital and the analog.

Inspiration

From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everythin