From the desk of Mr. Monk

I`m here in Berlin now. There´s not much to say really, I`m in the hotel and it`s absolutely throwing it down with rain! This keyboard is unbelievably ridiculous to type with too. The keys are all over the place!

I really need to start putting my ideas down onto paper because I`m definitely going to forget them. I really wanna ask him about the manifesto that EdenSpiekermann has. How do clients react to it?

It is extremely hard to avoid the obvious questions like, “what`s your favourite typeface?” I think he´d just kick me out if I asked him that.

I`ve bought some of the work from SMILE with me. Rather cheeky I know, but when else am I ever going to have the chance to get a crit by Eric Spiekermann?

Tomorrow will be a strange day with a lot of occurences that simply wouldn´t happen in my day to day life. I`m determined not to get starstruck by Mr. Spiekermann, because we`re all just human, right? I know that some of the things that I`m going to ask, like “can I video this meeting” might be a little offputting, I just hope that it doesn´t ruin it.

Time for some last minute revision on Erik Spiekermann.