The book of this week is about logos, but not corporate identity or product logos, it’s about logos from the underground black metal music. The book is called Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground and it is an incredible source of inspiration especially in terms of typography.

This eponymous book is a collection of hundreds of Szpajdel’s powerful logos, each of which captures the force of this genre anew. The hallmark of Szpajdel’s work is his surprisingly fluid combination of letters with visual elements from art movements such as art deco and art nouveau. But Szpajdel’s most important source of inspiration is nature: roots and trees as well as bats and other creatures.

Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground
Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground
Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground

In addition to the impressive selection taken from the thousands of logos this passionate metalhead has already created, Lord of the Logos also contains photos of dark forests, desolate moors, and gnarled branches that are closely related to his work.

Through his use of unusual aesthetic influences, Szpajdel has brought a new dynamic into the gothic visuality of heavy metal. He has not only succeeded in leaving his own visual mark on this music, but has expanded the canon of forms it uses. The book is done in the style of a black prayerbook, an appropriate choice for an artist whose fans in the black metal community worship him as the Lord of the Logos.

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Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground
Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground
Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground
Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground
Book Suggestion - Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground

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