The Nine Forms of Silence
The original collage had only two chairs, the central ones, and a reference to Brodsky's poignant poem "Still Life." To the last stanza: "The mother speaks to Christ..." Here, too, there is this motif, but not the end of Christ's path, but the beginning. Either the magi came to see the miracle, or the relatives gathered in Joseph's house. There are nine different chairs on the carpet, seven of them are the heroes of other carpets. Perhaps there is a celebration going on, because one has already drunk and is lying downstairs. And they are clearly discussing what is happening in the center. The swallow on the right is the Mandelstam symbol of the soul. Flying up into the sky, to joy. In the original, this collage was made on black paper. It's black paper, colored white. Here I left this feeling, but the black under the white is not darkness, but a bygone night. It's a festive morning on the carpet — rejoice! The font is Syrian, here it is simple and laconic.
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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