Type Salon: Painted Words, Tainted Logos
For almost four decades John Langdon has been seeing things in the words of the English language and the names of American businesses and products that most of us might not have even imagined. His logos reveal the essence of a company’s soul with clarity, beauty, and wit. His love of type is unexceeded. When existing typefaces will not meet John’s needs or expectations, he draws original letterforms — sometimes very original. In the early 1970s, he pioneered the art of ambigrams, recently called “the hottest trend in typography” by Wired Magazine. John’s book of ambigrams and related philosphy, Wordplay, was published in 1992, and an expanded second edition appeared in 2005 after Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon novels had carried John’s ambigrams around the world. In the mid 90s, John began putting his visions of words and versions of well-known logos on canvas. In this exhibition, “PAINTED WORDS, TAINTED LOGOS,” several of John’s paintings — three from his logo manipulation series from 1999 and 2000, and several from his recent and ongoing “mixed symmetries” series — will be on display at TDC’s offices through February and March.
Email us at director@tdc.org or call 1-212-633-8943 to reserve your spot today!
TDC members: free
Non-members: $20
Students: $15
This salon will be held at the Type Directors Club at 347 W. 36th St, #603, NYC