Erik Spiekermann
Erik Spiekermann is a German typographer, designer and writer. He is an honorary professor at the University of the Arts Bremen and ArtCenter College of Design.
He studied Ceramic Engineering at Yonsei University and Industrial Design at the University of the Arts (formerly Philadelphia College of Art) in the United States. He holds an MBA from the Helsinki School of Economics and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies. He worked as a senior designer at the New York-based design firm IDI (Innovations and Development Inc.) and as a design director at Deskey Associates. He also served as a professor in the Product Design Department at Parsons School of Design in the United States. Returning to Korea in 1995, he is currently the head of the Product Design Department at the Samsung Art & Design Institute (SADI).