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 creativepro.com - Type Designer Erik Spiekermann Receives Gerrit Noordzij Prize
The prize was given to Erik Spiekermann on October 17, 2003 at the gallery of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague at the opening of an exhibition of the work of Fred Smeijers, the previous winner of the Prize.
Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, type designer (FF Meta, the new FF Unit, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Govan, and others) and author of books and articles on type and typography.
Described by Spiekermann as the "grown-up" version of his famous FF Meta typeface, FF Unit is well suited for use in both large and small instances.
www.creativepro.com /story/news/20328.html   (879 words)

  
 Eric Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann is internationally recognised as a leading typographer, information designer and graphic designer.
Spiekermann, born in 1947, financed his studies in Art History at Berlin's Free University by running a printing press and setting metal type in the basement of his house.
From Erik Spiekermann's creation of the widely used 'meta' tyepface, designed by Erik Spiekermann, has often been referred to as the 'Helvetica of the 90's'.
www.2020magazine.com /profiles/spiekermann   (377 words)

  
 Erik Spiekermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Erik Spiekermann (born 1947) is a typographic designer and font developer.
Erik Spiekermann is an honorary professor at the College of Art in Bremen and vice-president of the International Institute for Information Design.
Erik Spiekermann will be introducing the programme at TYPO 98 Berlin.
www.fontshop.de /typo98/enhanced/sprecher/e_spiekermann.html   (334 words)

  
 Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, Second Edition: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
World-renowned type experts Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger explain in everyday laymen's terms what type is and how you can use it to enhance the legibility, meaning, and aesthetic level of your work.
Spiekermann and Ginger assume that readers are already familiar with terms like "letterspace", and never explain them explicitly in the book.
Erik Spiekermann and E. Ginger have structured their text with an eye to capturing and holding the interest of such a widely diverse readership.
www.mysqlwebhosting.biz /stuff-0201703394.html   (2083 words)

  
 Monotype: Erik Spiekermann
He is equally comfortable and prolific as a writer, graphic and typeface designer, but type is always at the epicentre of this communication dynamo.
Even as a child, Spiekermann was drawn to the typographic arts.
Spiekermann currently holds a professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is vice president of the German Design council, president of the International Institute of Information Design, president of the International Society of Typographic Designers and a board member of ATypI.
www.monotypefonts.com /Foundry/DesignerProfiles.asp?show=spiekermann   (319 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Erik Spiekermann
Spiekermann studied Art History at Berlin's Free University, funding himself by running a hot metal printing press in the basement of his house.
Although undergoing several reinventions and restarts, the company's client list now includes Adobe Systems, Apple Computer, Audi, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Nike, and comprises offices in Berlin, San Francisco and Zurich.
Spiekermann designed the seminal typeface, "Meta", sold through FontShop and arguably the most popular digital typeface of the 1990s, and co-authored the classic treatise on modern typography, Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Erik-Spiekermann   (251 words)

  
 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
'''Erik Spiekermann''' (born May 30 1947) is a Germany German typography typographer and designer.
Spiekermann studied Art History at Berlin's Free University of Berlin Free University, funding himself by running a hot metal printing press in the basement of his house.
Spiekermann designed the seminal Meta typeface (available at FontShop), arguably the most popular digital typeface of the 1990s, and co-authored the classic treatise on modern typography, ''Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works''.
www.mauspfeil.net /Erik_Spiekermann.html   (270 words)

  
 Erik Spiekermann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Erik Spiekermann (born May 30, 1947) is a German typographer and designer.
Between 1972–1979 he worked as a freelance designer in London before returning to Berlin and founding MetaDesign with two partners.
Spiekermann designed the seminal Meta typeface (available at FontShop), arguably the most popular digital typeface of the 1990s, and co-authored the classic treatise on modern typography, Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erik_Spiekermann   (217 words)

  
 ihaveanidea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
It is this role that the folks at Infopresse, the leading marketing and communication publication in Quebec, sought to explore in their conference last September 16th.
For Spiekermann, the desktop revolution (where Mr and Mrs Everyone have access to the same tools as the professionals) is a good thing, since it stimulates the creators to push the limits of design and constantly question themselves.
Erik Spiekermann is currently a freelance designer and works on his new project, United Designers Network, a collective of designers each representing one of the 256 colors of the RGB spectrum.
www.ihaveanidea.org /articles/entries/00000163.htm   (2155 words)

  
 LettError Type and Typography: LettError / Nypels Prize 2000
When it was presented at the Type90 conference at Oxford, it was already causing some stir in the normally placid typographic waters, and was seen as a provocation, a Dada joke, but with a serious core.
Erik is less of a type designer, more of an illustrator.
My sense is that Just and Erik have not yet found the material to match their intelligence.
www.letterror.com /content/kinross   (1091 words)

  
 Icograda | Feature
Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, type designer (FF Meta, FF Unit, ITC Officina, FF Info et al) and author of books and articles on type and typography.
In July 2000, Erik withdrew from the management of MetaDesign Berlin.
Erik now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco running the United Designers Network.
www.icograda.org /web/feature-display-search.shtml?pfl=feature-single-search-2.param&op2.rf1=222&op2sf=Spiekermann   (555 words)

  
 Erik Spiekermann's favorite fonts (kottke.org)
Except in this case, Spiekermann has to cut his own hair, and no barbers are good at that, if you get my meaning.
Erik - you'll notice that I never commented or criticized the look, design, or typeface choice of your blog, other than the fact that someone had spent some time deciding what it should look like.
I'm a student doing a project about Erik Spiekermann and didn't email him because the information provided on his web site either answered my questions or gave me a starting point from which to research.
www.kottke.org /remainder/04/03/5307.html   (2747 words)

  
 Wired News: SF Dream Job: Designer's Designer
Founder Erik Spiekermann is the designer's designer: a man of type (Meta and Officina are his own) and a firm believer in the old adage that form follows function.
Erik is also the founder of FontShop, an international franchise of mail-order type libraries.
MetaDesign has its roots in Berlin, where founder Erik Spiekermann set up shop in the early 1980s, and where 150 of the current 195 employees are found.
wired-vig.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,3801,00.html   (615 words)

  
 MMU - Faculty of Art & Design - News - FiFFteen
Since FontFont was founded in 1990 by Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody, FSI’s typeface library has been setting the standards in typography.
Erik Spiekermann (FSI founder and type designer) and Jan Middendorp (designer and author) have curated the FontFont section, and Neville Brody, former FSI and Fuse instigator, is the FUSE curator.
The exhibition opens in Manchester on 17th February 2005 with a guest lecture from Erik Spiekermann and Neville Brody at 5.30pm in Geoffrey Manton Lecture Theatre followed by a private viewing at 7pm in the Holden Gallery.
www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk /news/item.php?id=36   (435 words)

  
 CIA: The Art of Navigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Erik Spiekermann participated via internet 2 streaming technology on a television.
That was a cool idea, but his comments got lost in translation due to some technical difficulties.
Erik made many good points about the state of navigation in Germany and Europe.
www.idsa.org /whatsnew/chapters/northernohio/navigation.html   (168 words)

  
 Fontzone: Preview: LettError – terrorising letters?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Erik van Blokland and Just van Rossum, via LettError, are familiar names to most designers.
Erik and Just both studied at the Royal Academy in the Hague, they were introduced by Petr van Blokland (Erik’s brother), by way of Gerrit Noordzij a lecturer at the Academy.
After this, eighteen months later, Erik joined Just at Meta too, Erik jokes “Spiekermann was convinced that every design company should have a resident Dutch type designer”.
www.fontzone.com /zine/features/fz33910.prev   (412 words)

  
 Erik Spiekermann - Wikipedia
Erik Spiekermann ist Honorarprofessor an der HfK in Bremen, Präsident der istd, International Society of Typographic Designers, sowie Präsidiumsmitglied im iiid, Internationales Institut für Informationsdesign und im Rat für Formgebung.
In Den Haag erhielt er im Oktober 2003 den Gerrit Noordzij Preis für Typografie der Königlichen Niederländischen Akademie.
Literatur von und über Erik Spiekermann im Katalog der DDB
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erik_Spiekermann   (340 words)

  
 AIGA - Erik Spiekermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Erik Spiekermann is an information architect and a type designer.
He holds a professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is vice president of the German Design Council and president of the International Institute of Information Design.
Spiekermann, having withdrawn from the management of MetaDesign Berlin, now lives and works as a freelance design consultant in Berlin, London and San Francisco.
www.aiga.org /juror_erikspiekermann   (120 words)

  
 ATypI : News
The third Gerrit Noordzij Prize has been awarded to the German designer Erik Spiekermann, who is also a member of the ATypI Board.
The sculpture will be given to Spiekermann on Friday 17 October 2003 at the opening of an exhibition of the work of Fred Smeijers, winner of the GNP in 2001.
Erik Spiekermann (1947) receives this prize for the many typefaces that he has designed, among them FF Meta, ITC Officina and the Berliner Grotesk, but also for his contribution as co-founder of the type publishing and distribution company FontShop International.
www.atypi.org /news_tool/news_html?newsid=111&from=   (428 words)

  
 Microsoft Typography - News archive
FontFont, the innovative type library founded in 1990 by FontShop International’s Neville Brody and Erik Spiekermann, is celebrating a milestone anniversary.
Erik Spiekermann, along with designer-writer Jan Middendorp, curated the FontFont section, while Neville put together the FUSE exhibit.
Spiekermann and Brody will be in New York to open FiFFteen with an evening of presentations at the Fashion Institute of Technology on Wednesday, July 20.
www.microsoft.com /opentype/links/news.aspx?NID=5016   (359 words)

  
 Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann (born May 30 1947) is a German typographer and designer.Spiekermann studied Art History at Berlins Free University, funding himself by running a hot metal printing press in the basement of his house.
This artikel Erik_Spiekermann is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
This artikel Typography is licensed under the GNU free Documentation License.
www.bookonlineshopping.com /282796_erik-spiekermann_0672485435stopstealingsheepandfindouthowtypecomicbooksale.html   (551 words)

  
 UHM OUTREACH COLLEGE | NONCREDIT : Effective Typography: A Workshop with Erik Spiekermann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Erik Spiekerman provides participants with a wealth of information on the theory and use of type in graphic design and information architecuture.
Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, type designer (FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk et al) and author of books and articles on type and typography.
Erik now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco, designing publications, complex design systems and more typefaces.
www.outreach.hawaii.edu /programs/2005/EVENT-L07415.asp   (353 words)

  
 Stop Stealing Sheep - book review
Every page is a mini-tutorial in good design - an elegant balance of body text, pull quotes, graphics, and a interesting variety of fonts, weights, and sizes.
Spiekermann and Ginger start with the issue of appreciating and selecting typefaces for specific purposes.
There are guidance notes on the provenance of the typefaces they discuss, and they take the line that context is all.
www.mantex.co.uk /reviews/spiek.htm   (340 words)

  
 Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, Second Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
I've followed the author's advice (most of it, anyway) ever since and I was pleased to find that a revised edition had been issued.
Spiekermann is a type designer as well as a philosopher of art and design, and he's an excellent teacher as well.
He nicely combines witty discursions on the place of type in Western culture and why it's indirectly important to pay some attention to it, with eminently practical commentary on why certain fonts work best in certain applications, based on what their designers had in mind.
www.enotalone.com /books/0201703394.html   (1465 words)

  
 eye | feature
In Erik Spiekermann's hands, typographic design is a tool for rendering the world more accessible
Able to move, seemingly without effort, between roles as a typographer, designer, writer, public speaker and merchandiser, he was once even a politician - a Green Party member of the Berlin Senate.
Spiekermann is the author of stop stealing Sheep and Rhyme and Reason - two models of typographic rectitude for a lay audience - and the articulate upholder of standards of public design in many a conference lecture.
www.eyemagazine.com /feature.php?id=50&fid=300   (174 words)

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