Meta Design GmbH was founded in 1979 by Gerhard Doerrié, Florian Fischer, Dieter Heil and Erik Spiekermann in Berlin. In 1990, Erik Spiekermann, Uli Mayer-Johanssen and Hans Christian Krüger founded MetaDesign plus GmbH, from which MetaDesign AG emerged. [Wikipedia] As of 2025, MetaDesign has offices in Beijing, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Lausanne, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Zürich. [MetaDesign]