This short film was made for Microsoft and is an interview between Elliot Jay Stocks and typography legend Erik Spiekermann. He is an incredibly fluent, elegant speaker, charmingly self-deprecating and hugely enthusiastic about his subject. It is easy to understand how he has assumed god-like status amongst graphic and particular typographic desingers.
His main point is that designing for a screen (of whatever size) is no different from designing on paper – you have to get a lot of complex content into a small space, using hierarchies that enable the reader to get to the essential elements with the minimum effort. Web designers can now work much more similarly to print designers, because they no long have to get bogged down by coding considerations. A fascinating insight from one of the greats…
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