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.

Typeradio invited us to design the sleeve of «Music for Adrian Frutiger» Supercity 7″ vinyl single which is part of the «TypeLegends» 4 singles box presented at the upcoming «Now we are talking Festival».

The Box includes 4 unpublished interviews with Gerrit Noordzij, Adrian Frutiger, Ed Benguiat, Wim Crouwel + 4 unpublished vinyls composed by Legowelt, Jacq Palinckx, Supercity & The Walt + an essay by Ellen Lupton. Design by Strange Attractors, Erik van Blokland, Buro Destruct & Experimental Jetset. This limited edition (250) is only available at the Festival.

Editorial design of Form:uLA, Bryan Cantley’s «MECHUDZU» – New Rhetorics for Architecture book. Published in the RIEA book series by Springer.

The work of Bryan Cantley, and his firm, Form:uLA, based in Los Angeles, is intended to be confounding – a practice that is a theory, a theory of practice, practice as theory. Cantley’s work is part of the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This book documents Cantley’s work, lavishly illustrated and combined with congenial essays by acknowledged experts as there are Aaron Betsky, Dora Epstein Jones, Ruth Keffer, Wes Jones + Doug Jackson and Neil Spiller.

Browse some pages of the book:

ISBN 978-3-7091-0834-5. Available at Amazon. (120 pages, 18x21cm).

Visionandfactory Belgium invited Büro Destruct, Fons Hickmann and Stefan Sagmeister to take part on the first series of «Renowned designers on Specials» project for Papyrus Europe.

We chose the new Plike paper range and designed a bizarre booklet, presenting
«An intergalatic document of terrestrial hieroglyphs on Papyrus»

Printing and finishing:
Cover: Offset P877 C on Plike Graphite g/m2 330, Section 1: Offset P504 on Plike Pastel Blue g/m2 140, Section 2: Offset P504 on Plike Orange g/m2 140.

12 Pages of indecipherable hieroglyphs precursors of futuristic Büro Destruct typefaces – shapes and structures created by quirky graphic designers with retro, futuristic, bauhaus minds? Hugo Puttaert from Visionandfactory

Papyrus Europe is sending out these booklets to their large client database within August and September 2011.

Browse the booklet for yourself

Pictures from the workshop at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Together with the Gameculture Programme of Pro Helvetia Büro Destruct was introducing the art of VJ-ing for kids and interested parents. Our program is a joyful concept to introduce New Media Art to children in a museum.

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.