»Hello I am Erik«

TYPO Berlin 2015 Character | Thursday, 21 May | 9:00 pm | Stage | German

How do you describe character? On July 4, 2009, Johannes Erler sent an e-mail to Erik Spiekermann asking why nobody hat yet written a book about the elder statesman of design. Erler and his colleague, Inga Albers, then worked on the monograph “Hallo ich bin Erik” for five years. That’s how long it took to capture the many different facets of Spiekermann as a designer and a man. In this presentation, Spiekermann, Erler and Albers will discuss the creation of the book – from the first conversations in Spiekermann’s kitchen to the discovery that no archive of his work existed, through the search for a publisher, right up to the book presentation at the TDC in New York. A fascinating design journey.

Erik Spiekermann © Dennis Letbetter

Erik Spiekermann

Art Historian, Information Architect, Type Designer, Author (Berlin, San Francisco, London)

Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer and author. Two of his typefaces, FF Meta and ITC Officina, are considered to be modern classics. He founded MetaDesign (1979) and FontShop (1988). He is behind the design of well-know brands such as Audi, Bosch, VW, German Railways and Heidelberg Printing, among…
Inga Albers

Inga Albers

Graphic designer (Hamburg)

Inga Albers studied communications design at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and in the design department of the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. After completing her master’s thesis »Hallo ich bin Erik«, she worked as a freelancer in editorial and…
Johannes Erler

Johannes Erler

Graphic Designer, Art Director, Founder (Hamburg)

Erler, born in 1965, studied communications design in Kiel and worked for Lo Breier, Erik Spiekermann, and Neville Brody before co-founding Factor Design in 1993; he has since become one of Germany's top designers. In 2010, he left Factor Design to found EST ErlerSkibbeTönsmann with Henning Skibbe and Christian Tönsmann.…

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