Hot off the presses is Frog Design’s new mag­a­zine, Design Mind. Our founder, Erik Spiek­er­mann, is fea­tured in a two page spread in their eighth issue, Num­bers. The arti­cle focuses on Spiekermann’s per­sonal rela­tion­ship with typog­ra­phy and design­ing figures.

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.”

“Any­body can design let­ters, but num­bers are hard. Tech was an inter­est­ing chal­lenge that I gave myself: to create a type­face that has no diag­o­nals. When you design num­bers, you have to do ABC at least. It’s inter­est­ing because I real­ized that what worked for the house num­bers obvi­ously doesn’t work for let­ters. This was going back­wards. But num­bers and let­ters are very dif­fer­ent; they have dif­fer­ent space, dif­fer­ent shapes; they come from dif­fer­ent places. Fig­ures are actu­ally my favorite part of type design.”