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.

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

Logotype and artwork for Creators Aid for Japan digital book issue powered by +81 Magazine available for iPhone and iPad on the AppStore, 22. April 2011.

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

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

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.

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.

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