9 Quotes by Erik Spiekermann

I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please?

The materials shape your idea.

You are what you are seen to be.

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.

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

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.

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