Typographic Design in the Digital Domain: with Erik Spiekermann

Metro, the design paradigm behind Windows Phone is in part, a celebration of typography. In this short film, godfather of modern type, Erik Spiekermann talks with Elliot Jay Stocks about how typography is used in the digital domain and what digital designers can learn from traditional print techniques.

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Published by Spooner

Creative Technologist at Microsoft in the UK working in the Developer & Platform Evangelism group, he is at the forefront of emerging technologies being developed across Microsoft and champions their deployment to developers and digital agencies. His work is focused around mobile, the web and Natural User Interfaces.

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I love this website, the interviews are the best and very inspiring. Don't ever stop ever.

Very informative, thanks!

This is a great interview. A superb view.

Brilliant interview. Thanks for sharing.

Windows Phone 7 does support font-face. The browser update to IE9 went out with the 7.5 update. It's being rolled out to all WP7 now and should be complete by Nov 2011. I got my update last week on O2.

Sponsered by windows Phone, the phone that doesn't support @font-face lol Really enjoyed this though nice work.