Erik Spiekermann is information architect, type designer, author. His FF Meta and ITC Officina are considered modern classics. He started MetaDesign (1979) & FontShop (1988). He is behind the design of brands like Audi, Bosch, VW, German Railways and Heidelberg Printing, among others; information systems for Berlin Transit, Düsseldorf Airport & publications like The Economist. He designed exclusive typefaces for corporations like Deutsche Bahn, Bosch, ZDF German TV, Cisco, Mozilla, Autodesk, Nokia, etc. Erik is Professor Emeritus from the University of the Arts, Berlin. He is founder of Edenspiekermann, Berlin, San Francisco, Los Angeles. He now runs Hacking Gutenberg, an experimental letterpress workshopin Berlin