Erik Spiekermann Quotes

A typographic designer starts by looking at the copy — so what is your smallest element? The copy? Maybe even the footnotes? — and then you go up from there, whereas the graphic designer has an image in his or her head [..] and will make that page look that way, whatever it takes.

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

It's air, you know. It's just there. There's no choice. You have to breathe, so you have to use Helvetica.

I mean, everyone puts their history into their work.

I'm obviously a typeomaniac, which is an incurable if not mortal disease. I can't explain it. I just love, I just like looking at type. I just get a total kick out of it: they are my friends. Other people look at bottles of wine or whatever, or, you know, girls' bottoms. I get kicks out of looking at type. It's a little worrying, I admit, but it's a very nerdish thing to do.