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.

“BDD • Büro Destruct Designer” free Desktop Air Application, free Screensaver
and iPhone App available on the App Store.

Shake your iPhone to create a virtually infinite number of beautiful designs.
(See examples on BD Flickr).

Using circles, squares and a set of rules, Büro Destruct Designer lets you find inspiration for color combinations and graphic shapes. Choose either full random colors or apply harmony rules to your color palettes. You can modify your compositions with gestures and the various tools from the menu. The results can be saved and shared by e-mail including the color palette.

Editorial design of «KULTUR IM ZENTRUM – PROGR – eine Zwischennutzung mit Langzeitwirkung» a book about the center of cultural productions «Progr» in Bern. 5 color print, softcover, 156 pages. Published by Verlag Niggli. ISBN 978-3-7212-0740-8

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,