{"id":67299,"date":"2018-03-05T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/graphic-design-en\/gordon-young-un-macon-typographe"},"modified":"2023-06-27T11:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T09:39:15","slug":"gordon-young-a-mason-typographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/en\/graphic-design-en\/gordon-young-a-mason-typographer","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Young, a mason typographer!"},"content":{"rendered":"
For over 20 years, Gordon Young<\/a> has been working on the border between art, graphic design and typography.<\/p>\n To his credit, he has created dozens of art installations in public spaces, a forest of typographic trees, a Wall of Wishes in a school and a cursing stone in Carlisle. His most ambitious project to date remains the Comedy Carpet<\/a>, a 2200m\u00b2 granite typographic pavement of jokes, songs and slogans by comedians and writers on the seafront promenade in Blackpool (northern England).<\/p>\n At the heart of his work are \"words\". Words that give form to the work of art. Words that seduce, fascinate and amuse the viewer. Gordon is particularly attracted to vernacular typography and the materiality of text in the open air. The result is a visual production that is simple, playful, powerful and poetic...<\/p>\n For 20 years, Gordon Young is still young!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For this project, Gordon worked with the designers at Why Not Associates,<\/a> fine specialists in typography. The scale of the project is mind-boggling. 160,000 letters, cut from granite, cast in concrete, then sanded.<\/p>\n Each of the 320 slabs was made by hand, by typographer masons![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PS: Thanks also to Lise-Anne O. for this discovery. :-)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For over 20 years, Gordon Young has been working on the border between art, graphic design and typography. To his credit, he has created dozens of art installations in public spaces, a forest of typographic trees, a wall of wishes in a school and this incredible Comedy Carpet in Blackpool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":57832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[646],"tags":[10726,10631,9670,654],"class_list":["post-67299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graphic-design-en","tag-espace-public-en","tag-signaletique-en","tag-typographies-en","tag-typography"],"yoast_head":"\nThe comedy carpet<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Le Comedy Carpet est une c\u00e9l\u00e9bration l'art de la com\u00e9die et du divertissement populaire. Il se r\u00e9f\u00e8re au travail de plus de 1 000 com\u00e9diens. Le tapis pr\u00e9sente des blagues, des chansons et autres slogans qui remontent aux d\u00e9buts de la vari\u00e9t\u00e9 jusqu' \u00e0 nos jours. Il est situ\u00e9e devant la Tour Blackpool, l'\u0153uvre de 2 200 m\u00b2 contient plus de 160 000 lettres en granit encastr\u00e9es dans le b\u00e9ton, repoussant les limites de l'art public et de la typographie.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n
Concrete typography<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]To realize the project, Gordon transformed a former factory into a bespoke studio and recruited and managed a production team. After months of research, with the help of chemists and engineers, the Comedy Carpet team developed new production techniques and recipes. The red granite comes from India, the steel from China.<\/p>\n
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Other Gordon Young projects...<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Sources\u00a0<\/strong>:
\nwww.comedycarpet.com
\n<\/a>www.gordonyoung.net
\n<\/a>www.whynotassociates.com<\/a><\/p>\n