Dreams of chairs
The carpet "Dreams of Chairs" is a reference to Brodsky's "Great Elegy to John Donne." "Lord, from here there is only light in the window, // On a foggy night in the farthest house." It is no accident that the first line of the stanza is omitted here. The divine is gone, the light in the window remains — and the sleeping chairs. They float in the air. I hope I was able to tell you about sleep, dreams, and peace on this carpet. I think that's exactly what he's going to be talking about on the wall. A moon window where you can't see the moon, but it's implied, right? And the silence, the tranquility inside the house. The Sirin font, one of the most complex in my collection, came from the literary map "Berlin and Sirin", dedicated to Nabokov.
Born in 1958 in Moscow. He graduated from the Faculty of Artistic and Technical design of printed products of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He worked at the Film Studio of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR as an apprentice animator, phaser, and caption artist (1976-1979). Since then, he worked as a designer at the Legmash Design Bureau (1881-1987).
Since 1981, he has been engaged in book and graphic design, and since the mid-1980s, he has been creating fonts. In 1996, he created the first full-fledged digital headset, FaRer. In 1997, he became one of the founders of the Letterhead design studio.
One of the most sought-after font designers in Russia: he has created or customized more than 500 font designs for various clients (the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, banks Menatep, Trust, Gazprombank, corporations BAT, McDonald's, Procter&Gamble, magazines Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vogue, InStyle, Ogonek, VkusVill, Magnit networks, etc.).
One of the participants of the initiative group on the introduction of the graphic symbol of the Russian ruble.
Gordon is an artist who works with text in a very wide range - from font creation to the most complex typographic projects, from font history to visual poetry.
In particular, he was one of the founders of the Slovo Center for Slavic Writing at VDNH.
He is the author of the first study on the forms of signs of the modern Russian alphabet ("A book about letters from Aa to Yaya" (MN.: Artemy Lebedev Studio, 2006, four reprints) and other books, including "on the language of composition" (MN., Artemy Lebedev Studio, 2021) and "Books about my Letters" (Author's edition 2019, republished by M. N., MYTH, 2022).
He is currently writing the book "Letters of the 20th Century" about the difficult but fascinating life of the Cyrillic alphabet in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation from 1900 to 2000.
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