Erik Spiekermann - Putting Back the Face into Typeface

Typographer, graphic designer and businessman Erik Spiekermann has created timeless, influential and, yes, Meta-physical work over the past three decades.

Next to founding MetaDesign and FontShop, the latter being the first ever digital distributor of fonts, and designing more instant classic typefaces than any other, he has been recognized as an outstanding expert internationally as a lecturer and professor.

Listen to the design genius talk about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture in our latest Gestalten.tv video and you will easily realize why. Before heading to new visionary pastures, the bike enthusiast will make a short stop to receive the German Design Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 in February.

Watch our complete line up of video interviews on gestalten.tv

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It's Nice That – Sam Winston

It’s Nice That host a monthly evening of talks in London’s Soho, curated by a hand-picked practitioner. The format is a very simple one, the creative that we choose to come and host the evening also brings two other speakers with them, who can either be relevant to their own work, or totally unrelated.

The 16th installment of the series featured typographer, designer, illustrator and artist Sam Winston. Filmed on 17 September 2009 at The Sense Loft in London.

For more information please visit itsnicethat.com

Periodic Table of TypeFaces

The Finger, Oded Ezer'in tipografik sanat projesi

The Finger by Oded Ezer from www.odedezer.com on Vimeo.

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