Erik will be talking about his experience as a designer going from desktop to letterpress, from digital to analog. Join us for a riviting conversation at the HMCT.

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Erik Spiekermann is an art historian, printer, typedesigner (Meta, Officina, Unit, Info, Fira et al) information architect, author. Founder MetaDesign ’79, FontShop ’89. Honorary Royal Designer for Industry Britain 2007. TDC Medal & National German Lifetime Achievement Award 2011. In May 2007 he was the first designer to be elected into the European Design Awards Hall of Fame.

In April 2006, ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena awarded Spiekermann an Honorary Doctoral degree for his contribution to design. His family of typefaces for Deutsche Bahn (German Railways), designed with Christian Schwartz, received a Gold Medal at the German Federal Design Prize in 2006, the highest such award in Germany. Now Edenspiekermann Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam. Lives in Berlin, London & San Francisco.