Ten Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Erik Spiekermann

The avalanche of fan e-mail, likes, and tweets that greeted our recent dispatch from Erik Spiekermann’s evening with the Type Directors Club at Parsons The New School for Design has inspired us to glean additional knowledge morsels for your reading pleasure. Enjoy these ten things you (probably) didn’t know about the Spiekermann, the Spiekermyth, the Spiekerlegend:

1. He got his start as a gofer for Wolff Olins.
In the mid-1970s, while working the nightshift at a typesetter’s, Wally Olins hired him to work for Wolff Olins in London.

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