About the speaker
Yuri Gordon — Russian designer, illustrator, typographer, engraver. Yuri Gordon’s works are uncommonly versatile — he designs a variety of font types, lettering, calligraphy, font illustrations, visual poetry and personal art typography projects, develops software for working with text. Yuri Gordon is one of the founders of the Letterhead studio, which produces original Cyrillic fonts, he is also one of the initiative group members working on the graphic symbol for the Russian rouble. As well as author of the first study on the shape of the characters of the modern Russian alphabet — "Books about letters from Aa to Zz" (Moscow: Lebedev Studio, 2006).
Local partners
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art is an independent platform for new thinking.Through an extensive program of exhibitions, education, and publishing, Garage reflects on current developments in Russian and international culture.
Letterpress workshop and publishing collaboration project by Sergey Besov and Eugene Perfiliev. “Demons” make incredible business cards, invitations, postcards, posters and other interesting things.
Camera Obscura Collective imports and roasts great coffee. The creators of the project believe that even the smallest nuances can affect the perception of taste and that making a truly tasty cup of coffee is a very difficult and delicate work. Camera Obscura works only with what they call trackable and interesting coffee and farmers that understand the responsibility for their product and are not ashamed to give their own name to it.
Traditional English pies and desserts. Pie Point will provide some of their famous scones with tasty strawberry jam for our breakfast in December.
“Dasha’s pirozhki” is a bakery that specialises on one product: pirozhki, typical russian individual-sized baked or fried buns stuffed with a variety of fillings. “Dasha’s pirozhki” will provide those wonderful buns for our breakfast.
All natural, finest ingredients make Marc 100% natural cookies, granola, popsicles and granola impossible to resist.
“Mann, Ivanov and Ferber” is a publishing house that provides amazing books for the winners of our sketching competitions and to the guests that ask the most interesting questions to our speakers
Биостория предоставит гостям завтрака пшеничную, гречневую, овсяную и перловую БИО-каши собственного производства.
Eco studio Dom de Fleur will provide bright Christmas compositions for our CreativeMornings Moscow breakfast.
Additional details
Yuri Gordon, illustrator, designer, engraver, typographer will tell us how to achieve desired design results with micro means, how to work with the composition of a void and how limited technical possibilities become the reason for creation of font-legends.
Location
Hosted at
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
9, Krymsky Val, Moscow, Музей современного искусства «Гараж» находится в Парке Горького у Пионерского пруда.
Moscow, Russian Federation 119049
When
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Photographer Elijah Delwig
Videographer Andrew Mitrofanov