BD Music artworks and Balduin track «Büro Discotec» in the «Design For Music» – Pictographic Index 2 Book edited and compiled by Hans Lijklema for The Pepin Press.

The book presents a selection of the very best music-related design and illustration being done today: concert posters, album covers, band logos and other work. Included are several interviews with renowned artists – including Rudy VanderLans, Jorge Alderete, Rian Hughes, Invisible Creature and Martin Andersen – about their work and their relationship to music.

The theme is complemented by the inclusion of a free music CD with 12 tracks by artists featured in the book.

Text in English, French, German, Spanish, 320 Pages 17 x 22.5 cm , Softcover with 1 Music CD, ISBN# 978-90-5768-157-8, Agile Rabbit Editions, The Pepin Press.

The first selection of BD typedifferent opentype fonts are now available on “HypeForType” a platform for keen eyed creatives to find and buy truly unique, hand-crafted fonts.

An interview is introducing the launch of following Büro Destruct typefaces: BDR A3MiK, BD Emerald, BD Kameron, BD Unicorse, BD Jupiter, BD Mother, BD HitBit, BD Motra, BD Retrocentric and BD Varicolor.

Interview about Computergames, Culture, Art and the Gravity Lander app with Lopetz (Büro Destruct), Pius Knüsel (Director of Pro Helvetia) and Sylvain Gardel (Project Director of GameCulture) on Swiss Radio DRS 2, Reflexe, Wednesday, 30. March 2011: Listen: «Die Kultur entdeckt die Computerspiele» (German only).

BD work featured in the Swiss Design book edited by Dorian Lucas for Braun Publishing.

Graphic Designer and Illustrator Heath Killen just launched the site “Theoryhaus” which presents an ongoing series of conversations and stories about creative projects and cultural producers.

The first issue features an extended conversation about our BD Apps, a talk with music industry design legend “Steve Byram” and fashion boutique online retailer “We’re”.

BD music artworks featured in “Graphic Beats” Independent Record Covers & Packaging Design Book edited by Miquel Abellàn, published by Monsa.

“Graphic Beats” has collected a large number of covers from all over the world in which we can find an enormous range of graphic images from dozens of artists and music genres. The book regroups a total of 50 artists and some really amazing and creative beautiful work from graphic designers like Khomatech (Scorn, The Blood of Heroes), You Are Beautiful (Devil’s Gun), The Designers Republic (Warp Records), Buro Destruct (Bomb The Bass, Deetron), Non-Format (Delphic), Echo DesignLab (Korn) and many more.

As part of IdN’s 100th Issue celebrations, «IdN Extra 04: Most Wanted Vol. 1» presents nearly 100 of the most talented creators in today’s design world! Select and hand picked by 10 of today’s most influential designers, who in turn were each asked to name 10 artists in any design filed whose work particularly impressed them. The result is a unique cross section of the contemporary design world, as represented by some of the most interesting artists and designers in the modern day design industry. This is certainly a book to keep and look back on – to see where design was at at the end of the 21st century first decade.

Some of the BD work in the book is posted on IdN’s Creators feature.

«IdN Extra 04: Most Wanted Vol. 1» features work of: Rafaël Rozendaal / Luke Rudolf / François-Xavier Courreges / Andrea Rosso / John Maeda / Topos Graphics / A nice idea every day / Tina Berning / Daniel Eatock / Nila Aye / Andy Howell / Storm Tharp / Ian Stevenson / Denis Darzacq / Johan Björkegren / Büro Destruct / Jon Klassen / Stanley Wong / Niessen & De Vries / Jesse Auersalo / Thirst / Peekasso / Feixen / Nao Tamura / Tim Hunkin / Scott Barry / Kjetil Wold / Anti / Carmen Garcia Huerta / Raphaël Garnier / Mathieu Laroussinie / Mimi Leung / Ji Lee / Jordi Labanda / Mono. Kultur / Sarah Martinon / T-post, Peter Lundgren / Keetra Dean Dixon / Jean-Yves Lemoigne / Jeremy Geddes / Richard Gray / Antoine+Manuel / Big Active / eBoy / Jason Brooks / Jeremyville / John C. Jay / Non-format / Stanley Donwood / Stefan Sagmeister / The Rainbowmonkey.

ISBN: 978-988-18470-5-8, Size: 210mm x 270mm, Pages: 168 pages.
Avialable on the IdN Proshop

Swiss newspapers “Tages Anzeiger”, “Der Bund”, “Berner Zeitung BZ” and “Hochparterre“ published a feature about the Büro Destruct Game «Gravity Lander» developed for the GameCulture Programme of Pro Helvetia. Text by Roger Zedi, Photos by Fabian Unternährer.

The Pepin Press released the Volume 2 of the Free Font Index Book compiled by Hans Lijklema. Following Type Designers are featured along with a selection of their free fonts on the included CD Rom: DBXL, Fenotype, Fontfabric, Holland Fonts, HVD Fonts, Kingthings. The League of Moveable Type, Paragraph, Peter Wiegel, Pizzadude.dk, Ray Meadows Designs, Tension Type, Typedifferent, Typodermic Fonts, WC Fonts and many others.

Granimator™ by ustwo™ is a creative sound based wallpaper creator. A free-form, immersive touch and sound experience that allows you to become the artist and create the best wallpapers for your iPad or iPhone.

Buro Destruct created a premium design pack for Granimator™ and it just got available within the free Granimator™ app. Get a constructivist with Buro Destruct and create designs like the following…

…More wallpapers made with the BD Contructivist artist pack on BD Flickr and on BD website.

Other available Granimator™artist packs are from Airside, Pete Fowler, Moving Brands®, Rexbox, James Joyce, John Burgerman… Many additional design packs will follow with regular Granimator™ app updates.