Translated monthly column from Form, the German design magazine.
From the writer's bio:
erik spiekermann is information architect,type designer (ff Meta, itc Officina, ff Info,ff Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk et al) and author. He was founder (1979) of MetaDesign, Germany�s largest design firm with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. In 1988 he started FontShop.
He holds an honorary professorship at the Academy of Arts in Bremen, is board member of ATypI and the German Design Council, and president of the istd International Society of Typographic Designers. In July 2000, Erik left MetaDesign Berlin. He now lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco, designing publications, complex design systems and more typefaces.
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