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Lord of the Logos: Designing the Metal Underground Hardcover – January 1, 2010

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This book is a collection of work by Christophe Szpajdel, an artist whose fans in the underground black metal community worship him as the Lord of the Logos. It includes hundreds of powerful logos, each of which captures the force of this musical genre anew. Through his surprising use of aesthetic influences such as art deco and nature, Szpajdel has brought a new dynamic into the gothic visuality of heavy metal. This publication, which is done in the style of a black prayerbook, shows not only how he has succeeded in leaving his own visual mark on this music, but how he has also expanded the canon of forms it uses.

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272 pages
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English
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Gestalten
Publication date

January 1, 2010
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8.56 x 1 x 10.5 inches
ISBN-10

3899552822
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978-3899552829
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Gestalten (January 1, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3899552822
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3899552829
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.56 x 1 x 10.5 inches

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w. lucero

Superb metal art reference

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 8, 2013

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This book is amazing. Such an awesome piece of reference to have for fellow arts/graphic artists. Its basically 230 pages of pure metal logo madness. All the logos are nicely spaced out on a page. Some pages are broken down into what looks like the artists different styles or a particular look he might have been feeling at that time with various band logos in that certain look.

Also some of the pages have one or two giant logos on them. Also I like how between chapters if you want to call them that are photos. Not sure what they are, but they look to be photos of inspiration ranging from trees and water and very natural type elements. Overall this book is just to awesome to not have if your a fan of Black Metal.

Im a graphic artist and to see all the various logos is inspiration in itself and to have this book on my shelf for reference is awesome. Trust me you wont be disappointed.

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Evan

Great book but not a hardcover.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 29, 2013

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I love the book but am a bit pissed that I paid a little more for it on here because it said it was hardcover when it is not. Its a softcover that is made to look like a hardcover. I'm guessing they don't actually make this in a hardcover version. Just wanted to warn everyone.

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Fulton Hawk

Breath Taking

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2010

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Christophe's work is iconic and this volume of it is epic. Page after page of hand crafted brilliance. It would be short sighted to say this is only a "Death Metal" logo book. Christophe's Art Deco and Art Nouveau work is equally amazing. I've purchased the book on 4 separate occasions for other illustrators. A must have in any art book collection.

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N. Constantino

Well I'll be damned...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 1, 2013

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I had no idea how prolific Christophe Szpajdel was prior to seeing so much of his work laid out so beautifully in this collection. One look at this book and you will never look at a black metal logo as unreadable tree root font ever again. Wonderfully inspiring.

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Alexander Pineda

Excelent!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2013

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Una gran recopilación para los admiradores del diseño gráfico, la identidad de marca y la tipografía.
Recomendado 100%.

A great collection for fans of graphic design, brand identity and typography.
100% recommended.

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Ericorruption

Just plain awesome.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2012

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High quality cover, high quality print. About 300 pages of impressive logo work. I thought this would be a small book actually (both size and number of pages) and was totally wrong.

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Steven

The Book is Awesome; the construction is not.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2014

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Don't be fooled by the beautiful gold lettering and faux-whatever texturing. The cover and spine are like cardboard thin and you have to treat the book fairly delicately.

On the plus side the content is great. It's easy to underestimate the number of logos within but there's a lot. Like a lot a lot.

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CJ Reeves

INDEED!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 31, 2014

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GREAT BOOK if ya like the metal scene & if you digg fonts or want to design CRAZY ASS LETTERS!!!!

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JournalCuck

This shouldn't dissappoint.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 1, 2014

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Great cover, great contents.

Christophe Szpajdel's logo designs are fantastic, and this collection is worth having if you like his style. I leaf through it when I'm not feeling metal or grim enough. One must maintain.

The logos are grouped more or less by their genre, or, more specifically, by photographs of the natural scenes that inspired the calligraphy. In terms of additional notes and words from Christophe Szpajdel, there is none. It's just the art and the photos. At the back of the book there's a helpful index if you're looking for a certain band. It's a good size book, and there are plenty of logos to go through.

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Increíble

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on January 13, 2017

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Este es un libro que merece estar en el estante de diseñadores gráficos, ilustradores y por supuesto, amantes del metal

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El libro magico del metalllllll 😍😍

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on April 29, 2017

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Las 5 estrellas y massss si se puede x q es un libro con un arte fenomenal en cada logooooo la verdad es un gran libro lo recomiendo vean loooo ☺☺☺😅

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Scottish Manitou

Phenomenal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 6, 2014

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It's hard to get one's head around the idea that Christophe Szpajdel has designed more than 7,000 band logos. Best known for designing the now-iconic Emperor logo, as well as hordes of others in the black metal and death metal genres, he has also created logos for artists and writers. His work is very much rooted in nature, often incorporating branches, leaves, trees, horns and winged creatures into organic lettering. He designs all his logos by hand using black pens and A4 paper. There's no computer intervention, and his work is all the better for it.

As a fan of many of the bands whose logos Szpajdel designed, I had to buy this book and check out the whole spectrum of his work. The range is vast, Szpajdel's creativity astonishing. He's known as The Dark Lord or Lord of the Logos by many folk in the metal underground. These are titles he has earned. Looking through the book, it's difficult not to be astounded at how prolific this artist is in the metal arena.

The book cover is beautiful, as you'd hope from an artist of Szpajdel's calibre: black soft-padded jacket with debossed writing in gilt. Perfect.

If you're a fan of underground metal or nature-based logos, you'll love this book. I do.

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Raúl

"Pequeña" selección de Christophe Szpajdel.

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on February 9, 2018

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Cientos de logos de bandas al estilo death y black, sobretodo.
Se pueden ver fases más tempranas del diseñador en algunos de ellos y apreciar el progreso con logos realmente barrocos y detallados.

Incluye de vez en cuando fotografías que el autor realizó para usarlas como referencia en la creación de sus diseños, siendo sobretodo temas centrados en la naturaleza, la mayoría árboles, pero también alguna estructura como torres o verjas.

Además, en el pie de página se incluyen los nombres de cada logo, lo cual se agradece, ya que hay algunos muy intrincados como suele ser habitual en estos géneros musicales. Todo está editado de una manera limpia y simple, no se colocan detalles o recursos visuales decorativos externos que al final más bien estorbarían y recargarían las páginas. Logos, fotografías y nombres a pie de página, punto.

Lo recomiendo a cualquiera que quiera tenerlo como recurso donde encontrar inspiración y referencias para crear sus propios diseños o, simplemente, a quienes les guste contemplarlos y guste de ellos. Para los primeros aconsejo escuchar algunas de estas bandas sueltas o que llamen la atención, con diseños diferentes entre ellas a ser posible, e intentar observar y comprender la esencia de dichos grupos reflejada en sus logos.

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