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

DGPH and IdN released The Ark Project Book, an illustrated Animal Bible by artists all over the world.