alongside Christian Schwartz as they collaborated on the design of a type family for German Railways. After leaving the MetaDesign firm in 2001, he founded a new firm called United Designers Networks. This second firm also has offices located in Berlin, San Francisco, and London. As of 2009, the firm was renamed and is now recognized as Edenspiekermann. (Adobe 2021). Having spent the last fifty years in the graphic design and typographic industry, Spiekermann has distinguished some of his type preferences and personal discoveries over the last five decades. His dream setup includes a balance of both analog and digital traditions and machinery.
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He takes both into account when de signing a new font type. “From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything”, is the response Spiekermann gave when asked what inspires him while creating graphics and typefaces (Workspiration 2018). Erik Spiekermann currently has offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Singapore. Some of the typefaces he has designing throughout his career include: FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit, and FF Real. He has also designed several custom fonts for companies such as The Economist, Deutshe Bahn, Cisco, Bosch, Mozilla, and Autodesk. (Adobe 2021). Many believe Spiekermann played a large roll in the development and advancement of cultural communication and information sharing, certainly in Germany, but also on a global scale.
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“Spiekermann believes in the balance of the printing press and computers.”
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