Last week
Erik Spiekermann published a video about his letterpress shop at P98a in Berlin. Even though the audience at large mainly knows him as a successful and acclaimed “digital” designer (
290K followers on Twitter, anyone?), creator of some
very popular digital typefaces, letterpress has been a constant factor in his career. During his studies at Berlin’s
Free University Erik funded himself by running a letterpress printing press in the basement of his house (which famously burned down in the seventies), and last year you could find him hard at work at the
TYPO Berlin 2013 Printing Workshop in the foyer of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Fortsätt läsa Letterpress Printing at P98a