«BD Hiragana Kuro» free opentype font added on Typedifferent.com

We are happy to announce that the home of Büro Destruct fonts «Typedifferent.com» got a redesign and just went live today!

Along with a much better browsing experience of all the BD fonts created during 1995 – 2011, the two new fonts «BD Telegraph» and «BD Ragout (free)» are now available.

Participation with the work «BD Type Crumbs» for the «Typographic Tables» exhibition at the Museion – Museum of modern and contemporary art Bolzano, Italy.

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The Box includes 4 unpublished interviews with Gerrit Noordzij, Adrian Frutiger, Ed Benguiat, Wim Crouwel + 4 unpublished vinyls composed by Legowelt, Jacq Palinckx, Supercity & The Walt + an essay by Ellen Lupton.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.

The first selection of BD typedifferent opentype fonts are now available on “HypeForType” a platform for keen eyed creatives to find and buy truly unique, hand-crafted fonts.

An interview is introducing the launch of following Büro Destruct typefaces: BDR A3MiK, BD Emerald, BD Kameron, BD Unicorse, BD Jupiter, BD Mother, BD HitBit, BD Motra, BD Retrocentric and BD Varicolor.

Since 1995, Büro Destruct is releasing their display and logotype fonts under the label «Typedifferent». The typefaces are categorized in the years of their creation. Over the last 15 years BD made available more than 120 fonts from which about half of them are free. While updateing the site to make the fonts visible on devices running iOS, we added some of our thoughts about Typography:

“The sunny side of typography is experimenting with the visual language.”

“Readability is the underwear – Originality is a dress code.”

“Titles and logotypes with original typefaces stimulate readers curiosity.
Little extra effort to decipher letters will pay out in better recognizability.”

“Typefaces have different stylistic dialects.
It is good to speak the same language as the readers.”

“Typographic rules are here to break.
Letters gain character by interfering their readability.”

“New shapes for typefaces can be found in unreadable things.
Inspiration for new alphabets is everywhere.”

“If a font looks outdated at the moment – the font is probably just some years ahead.”

“A perfect font suffers from personality.”

“Black and white are the colors of letters. Gray is the color of text.”

“A font is never complete.“

Buro Destruct’s own typefoundry “Typedifferent” just released 5 new fonts: BD Plankton (free), BD Baldrian (free), BD Las Palmas, BD Unicorse and BD Stella (free). Grab them before they are sold out.

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.

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….