The materials shape your idea.

- Erik Spiekermann

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

- Erik Spiekermann

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

- Erik Spiekermann

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 …

- Erik Spiekermann

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

- Erik Spiekermann

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

- Erik Spiekermann

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

- Erik Spiekermann

You are what you are seen to be.

- Erik Spiekermann

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

- Erik Spiekermann