Erik Spiekermann (co-chair) is an internationally recognized graphic designer whose typeface Meta has become one of today's most popular fonts. In the international design and typographic community, he is a tireless spokesman for the need for the functional yet aesthetic design of everything from typefaces to transportation time schedules. Founder and managing partner of MetaDesign (Berlin and San Francisco), Spiekermann was the first German to own a Macintosh computer. He continually pushes the limits of desktop typography and design and is currently a partner in FontShop, an international franchise of mail-order type libraries for Macs and PCs with a catalogue of over 3,000 typefaces. He is a visiting professor of communication design at Bremen University and has written several books on design and typography, most notably Stop Stealing Sheep for Adobe Press.