Erik Spiekermann was born May 30, 1947. He is a German typographer and designer. He is a professor at the University of the Arts Bremen.
Spiekermann studied art history at Berlin's Free University, funding himself by running a hot metal printing press in the basement of his house.
FSI FontShop International was founded in Berlin in 1988 by Erik Spiekermann and Joan Spiekermann, who were then husband and wife, the first mail-order distributor for digital fonts. FontShop International followed and now publishes the Font range of typefaces. MetaDesign combined clean, teutonic-looking information design and complex corporate design systems for clients like BVG (Berlin Transit), Duesseldorf Airport, Audi, Volkswagen and Heidelberg Printing, amongst others.
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