Artist of the week- Hallo, ich bin Erik - The German Letterman.

Paul Heys was our lecturer on the 20/11/14 as John was elsewhere, Paul had thought about this lecture and with what way he wanted to go about it so he decided it would be best to recap on work from the past 7 weeks.

We were first shown a video called gestalten by Erik Speichmann, it shows the process of typography printing, this looks outstanding and I'd love to see this really happen as I think it looks outstanding the way you set out your letters depending on font and if you make an error you have to start again. Paul then goes on to say, that he 
wants us to understand, that the process and production is bound to make mistakes and certainly not all perfect there will always be problems but the more research and chipping into the work we do, the bigger our outcome, which is exactly how Erik speaks about hard typography. 

Erik talks about how on Photoshop you can cover it up easily, however if you have set up a printer with individual letters and you do it wrong, you have to start all over again, he has letters that have connecting blocks of wood to make it more smoothly transitioned. 

I feel this form of typography would suit me extremely well and that it would be something I am more interested in doing in the future.


Hello, I am Erik—The German Letterman from Gestalten on Vimeo.