Note from the trans­la­tor: I’m a little late with this Octo­ber 16 Font­Blog entry for the simple reason that I couldn’t get to it before leav­ing for San Fran­cisco. But as it fea­tures some really nice logo work I still wanted to post this on The Font­Feed. — Yves

I was at the Frank­furt Book Fair for one and a half day, where I had more dis­cus­sions than I actu­ally saw books. The host coun­try this year was Turkey. The labyrinth logo was omnipresent. This imme­di­ately reminded me of our dis­cus­sion on Font​blog.de in March last year, when Sandy Kaltenborn was con­fronted with a legal threat, as his typo-​labyrinth on the cover of the G8 brochure Die Deu­tung der Welt bore too much resem­blance to the cover for Adreas Uebele’s Ori­en­tierungssys­teme und Signaletik.

Let­ters hidden in a labyrinth: T26 type cat­a­logue cover (2000), book cover for “Ori­en­tierungssys­teme und Sig­naletik” (Octo­ber 2006) and cover for the G8 brochure (2007)

China was selected to be the host coun­try of the 2009 book fair. The design of next year’s logo and halls was assigned to Germany’s most well-​known Chi­nese designer, best-​selling author and TYPO pre­sen­ter Yang Liu (Font­blog on her posters, Font­blog on her book).

Who­ever designs the logo for the book fair will see it applied on the most diverse media: car­rier bags, cat­a­logue, adver­tise­ments, columns, transparan­cies, floor coverings… I was curi­ous to dis­cover Yang Liu’s cre­ation which was unveiled at a press con­fer­ence on Octo­ber 16th. Unfor­tu­nately I was unable to attend, as I already was making my way back to Berlin. How­ever she revealed to me that it was going to be entirely black-and-white.