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Arent Benthem speaks at Infographics Congres 2010

2010-03-11T13:00:50Z

Friday 5 March saw the third edition of the Infographics Congres. This years’ theme: infographics in motion. Arent Benthem of Edenspiekermann was one of the listed speakers. Arent was nominated for the Infographics annual award with his privately held animation studio ‘in60seconds’.

His presentation about ‘explanimations’ and communication through online video was dedicated to 5 people that inspire him and titled “5 tips for Rita” referring to a promo-video of Dutch politician Rita Verdonk. The 5 tips included lessons learned from designers as Francien Malecki, partner at Edenspiekermann and Wim Crouwel.

www.infographics.eu

Rette sich, wer kann!

2010-03-08T08:33:44Z

Erik Spiekermann’s recent column in the German magazine FORM.

MNTV features Edenspiekermann

2010-03-02T15:15:26Z

Marketingnetwerk.tv (MNTV) is a new platform that aspires to be a matchmaker between clients and agencies in the Netherlands. With short documentaries and interviews MNTV wants to portray the field of marketing and communications. MNTV also visited the offices of Edenspiekermann in Amsterdam and Berlin.

FF Mister K is the Page ‘Font of the Month’

2010-03-02T12:23:19Z

Inspired by the excentric handwriting of Franz Kafka, Julia Sysmäläinen created FF Mister K and won the renowned ISTD Premier Award. Now the German Magazine Page chose the scriptfont to be the ‘Font of the Month’. Antje Dohman (Page online) loves it too. Here’s the intro. Read the whole article here

Erik Spiekermann’s TEDx Berlin-Talk now online

2010-01-20T13:55:31Z

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, the first TEDx conference was held in Berlin on 30 November 2009 at the Grand Hyatt. Erik Spiekermann kicked off the day with a presentation called “Redesigning Design”.

Studio Culture: the Secret Life of the Graphic Design Studio

2010-01-13T15:14:35Z

Last year Unit Editions published their book “Studio Culture” presenting different sources of creative work. One of the studio portraits is the Berlin office of Edenspiekermann. The elaborate interview with Erik Spiekermann by Adrian Shaughnessy is now available on the Suite7 journal. Read part 1 and part 2

Designers maken er chocola van

2009-12-24T09:12:02Z

Dutch magazine Marketing Tribune writes about TCHO and design as a success factor for brands in their ‘best of 2009’ special.

Erik’s lecture at the UvA

2009-12-18T13:33:35Z

Erik Spiekermann gave the second Frederik Muller Lecture, organised by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on Wednesday 16 December. For those who couldn’t be there: we hope to have a video of the lecture online soon. For now just photos.

Erik Spiekermann @ The Edge in London

2009-12-15T08:49:00Z

Organised by the DBA, the Edge is a groundbreaking event making the links between creativity, risk-taking and success. Among Olivier Toscani, Michael Wolff and Malcolm Garett, Erik Spiekermann was one of the creative pioneers mingling with the crowd, hosting lunches and having group conversations.

The Edge mixes a rising generation of creative talent with the most senior and successful of its high-achievers and you’ll come together in an unusually direct way. It took place December 9 & 10 in London for the first time.

Edo van Dijk on Radio 1

2009-12-07T14:43:27Z

Edo van Dijk was interviewed by Dutch radio programme ‘Goedemorgen Nederland’ about the paper saving typeface that is currently being developed for the City of Amsterdam.

The typeface is a narrower version of the Avenir, designed by Adrian Frutiger. Estimated savings for the City of Amsterdam are up to 80.000 euros per year. Listen to the (Dutch) radio interview on Radio 1.

Save money with a narrower, yet legible typeface

2009-12-07T09:13:16Z

Edo van Dijk was interviewed by Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad about a paper saving typeface that is currently being developed for the City of Amsterdam.

Partnership gets the best result

2009-11-27T10:29:39Z

Chinese design magazine 360 features Edenspiekermann in their latest issue on exhibition design.

Financial crises are of all time

2009-11-25T10:08:54Z

Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant reports about the exhibition Capital Amsterdam.

The Making of… “Open since 1989”

2009-11-14T18:16:36Z

To celebrate the ‘Festival of Freedom’, over 1000 giant dominoes were toppled to symbolise the chain reaction throughout Germany, Europe and the world after the fall of the Berlin wall. The design for one oversize styrofoam domino at the Brandenburg Gate was made by Edenspiekermann.

FontCast #5 — Webfonts Week: Erik Spiekermann

2009-11-13T19:39:38Z

FontCast interviewed Erik Spiekermann during the Typ09 in Mexico City. See the video here