... typographer and type designer. Spiekermann founded MetaDesign in 1979 and designed its namesake typeface FF Meta . In 1989 ... founded United Designers Network with offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco. In January 2007, the studio has been renamed ...

Wiki - eriks - 25 Oct 2008 - 1:38pm - 0 comments

... Mellon University (Communications Design) 1999: MetaDesign Berlin 2000: Font Bureau 2001: Orange Italic Awards His ...

Wiki - auricfuzz - 19 Oct 2007 - 12:44pm - 0 comments

... A colleague brought this postcard back from Berlin and asked what font. Embarrassingly, no-one in the studio could identify ... use FF Transit, the typeface Erik Spiekermann and MetaDesign specified for the Berlin subway system. Is is available in three ...

Forum topic - Theunis de Jong - 26 Aug 2008 - 2:54am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... bet you got at the TYPO in I bet you got at the TYPO in Berlin this year. I know it was on sale there. I asked a friend in Berlin if ... old thread ) of Folha. As typographic director at MetaDesign Luc(as) was responsible for many typographic projects over a period ...

Forum topic - Bald Condensed - 21 Jul 2008 - 7:08am - 307 comments - 0 attachments

... and articles on type and typography. In 1979 he founded MetaDesign and built it into Europe’s largest design studio until his ... With his partners at SpiekermannPartners (offices in Berlin, London and San Francisco), he works for major international clients ...

News - Bald Condensed - 9 Sep 2008 - 6:12am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... uses it for some products and campaigns, as does Bayer. MetaDesign San Francisco uses it (MetaDesign Berlin now uses FF Fago). The FontBook is set in FF Meta. The German Employment ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 28 Jul 2008 - 9:00pm - 24 comments - 0 attachments

... Large international design studio started in Berlin by Erik Spiekermann in 1979. The typeface Meta was ... font in the FontFont library. URL: http://www.metadesign.com/ (wiki) ...

Wiki - eriks - 3 Nov 2005 - 7:35am - 0 comments

Hi there, When I was in Berlin last year I was impressed by the variety in type and style on the signage of Berlin’s Rail Stations. Impressed, but also surprised as (and maybe ... Transit Back, I guess, if it is a back-lit sign), which MetaDesign created in the early 1990s. After the reunification, Erik ...

Forum topic - stephenlording - 25 Jun 2006 - 5:24am - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... author, information designer and typographer. He founded MetaDesign and FontShop, is Honorary Professor at the University of the Arts ... are considered modern classics. He lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco. His studio, SpiekermannPartners, presently ...

News - Miss Tiffany - 12 May 2008 - 1:55pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Indices : Typefaces : Transit Designed at MetaDesign during the early 1990s for the CI and navigation system of the BVG (the Berlin transit authority). Distributed by FSI FontShop International. ...

Wiki - dan_reynolds - 30 Jan 2007 - 5:17pm - 0 comments