This eponymous book is a collection of hundreds of the Belgian-born Christophe Szpajdel’s logos, among his works are the logos for Wolves In The Throne Room, Emperor, Moonspell, Nachtmystium, and Enthroned. 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. 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. Published by Gestalten.

See more preview of the book after the jump.

The impressive multiformat magazine Still Loving Youth is back with their latest issue, S.L.Y#3 which has even left a deeper impression on us, as for this issue they've asked us to be one of the guest editors to provide some of the contents that pretty much reflect the Indonesian Internet Society Tendencies. So then we curated some contents (chose some stuff from the interwebz that we wanted to share and show to all to see) and designed/laid out those articles and shot the back cover too. We even got to choose some of the artists to contribute artworks for the posters/pin-ups as well! So be sure to get your copy of S.L.Y #3. Here are some words from the folks at s.c.a.n.d.a.l about S.L.Y 3rd issue: