Erik Spiekermann Quotes

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Inspiration. From real life. I open my eyes and I travel and I look. And I read everything.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

You are what you are seen to be.

The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

They [letters] are my friends Some people look at bottles of wine, or whatever - girls' bottoms - I get kicks out of looking at type.

Inher­ent qual­ity is part of absolute qual­ity and with­out it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.

The materials shape your idea.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.