Erik Spiekermann - Putting Back The Face video
Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer, designer and writer
"Like writing music"
Add the sound - different genders
pencil exercises
4-5 characters to define the character
Look at what you like for a long time and then put it away and draw it from memory to get a different effect.
Visual and physical shape of language is all important
Develop in different languages e.g. science, French, twitter, English, internet language
Photography has a different language - black and white/ colour
Designers are in tune with each other
Rhythm - words, spacing, silence in-between
It can be different travel, read as much as you can!!
A G S E N B - letters he started off with sketching
In 1988 he started FontShop, a company for production and distribution of electronic fonts.
House industry- Graphic design studio- Andy Cruise (founder)
More drawing = dealing with spacing, balance, contrast , relationships between letters, awareness between elements
Type history is important to have in order to produce strong type
Looking a typeface to create letter gives you a grounding
Familiar styles
Element of time - struggle when you are a perfectionist
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