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.

Participation in the book «TypoLyrics» edited by Slanted in which designers interpret music in entirely new ways with the help of fonts. The result is a collection of more than 170 visuals – typographic images that present contemporary fonts a little bit differently. On analogy with the traditional classification of fonts, the book is organized into eleven chapters, each of which treats a particular font family and song lyrics from a particular musical style from classical to punk.

Foreword by Max Dax (spex magazine, Germany), Interviews with StyloRouge (UK), Invisible Creatures (USA) and Dirk Rudolph (GER). Concept and design by MAGMA Brand Design GmbH. More information. Buy.

Tote Bag design (The payback of nature) for the “Carry Hope” project of Print Magazine USA. 100 percent of the profits will go to the causes the designers have chosen. Buy and support the charities with Tote Bags from Atelier Télescopique, Christoph Niemann, Deanne Cheuk, Ed Fella, Geoff McFetridge, Hort, James Joyce, Laurent Fetis, Rick Valicenti, Si Scott, Spin, Sawdust.

BD is participating on the “More Is A Bore – Minimalist Graphic Art” exhibition at the Ship of Fools Gallery, Netherlands. Opening Party 7th May 5-23 PM with following graphic designers work exhibited: 75B (NL), Anthony Burrill’s (UK), Christopher David Ryan (USA), Gorilla (NL), Karl Maier (AUS), Robert Samuel Hanson (UK/D) Ryan Dixon (UK), Büro Destruct (CH), Lectures (starts 7:30 PM) with Leandro Ezequiel Castelao (AR), Noma Bar (UK). Venue address: The Caballero Factory, Saturnusstraat 60 – Unit 81, 2516 Ah The Hague, The Netherlands.

LoveLiza, DBXL and Underware from Typeradio.org paid us a visit at BD office Bern and recorded this interview on the 16th of October 2009. Now we’re talking….

The german “PAGE” magazine issue 02/2010 features sneak peaks into designer offices and interviews with Danasz Bourski (Hamburg), Node (Berlin/Oslo), Sign (Frankfurt), Grimm Gallun Holtappels (Hamburg) and Büro Destruct (Bern).

The word “work” is a bad term for what we do. It’s more the passion. We can’t imagine doing anything else than what we do… Read more in the BD interview by Pj Smith of Australians Magazine “Acclaim”.

Since 2004 Slanted has interviewed over 100 designers from all over the world.
61 of them are now together in Typeviews, a book that recovers the first 5 issues of Slanted Magazine.

Featured interviews among others with: Ed Benguiat, Büro Destruct, Leslie Cabarga, John Collins, Hort, April Greiman, Fons Hickmann, Mario Lombardo, Jan Middendorp, Jean Francois Porchez, Raban Ruddigkeit, Stefan Sagmeister, Erik Spiekermann, Dirk Uhlenbrock, Vier5, Kurt Weidemann, Cornel Windlin…

Shanghai based Gallery Magazine, int’l edition vol. 03 dedicates that issue to graphic design from around the world. Featured works among many others by: 3group, Alex Trochut, Airside, Buro Destruct, Form, Hatch Design,  Sweden Graphics, Suck UK, Scandinavian Design Group, Tea Time Studio, ODBO,