A Conversation with Christophe Szpajdel

Today I have a very rare break in content form on Brand New. It’s the first interview I’ve conducted and published here but I have soft spot for the topic. The first time I heard of Christophe Szpajdel — and first mentioned him on Brand New — was in 2008, just as the rest of the internet was also getting to know his peculiar work for death metal bands. Since then, he’s published a book, Lord of the Logos, exhibited his work around the world — including the Walker’s Graphic Design: Now in Production — and continued rocking logos as hard as possible. In a recent e-mail exchange I had with Christophe, one thing led to another, and he designed some UnderConsideration logos (shown directly below) and we stroke a conversation that I am reproducing