Sunday, November 16, 2008

A Puzzling Way With Words

The Puzzlemaster Scott Kim


I met Scott when I was working in Font technology for Adobe, then at Apple; circa early 1990's Silicon Valley. Scott was designing typefaces along with many other quite intriguing projects.



Scott gifted me with a personalized copy of his trippy "Inversions" book. And that is quite some gift he has, he wowed me in about 2 seconds when he signed it drawing my name as an inversion (spelled front and backwards the same). If you look closely, the book title "Inversions" is Scott Kim as an inversion. Brilliant!

Later Scott redesigned a logo for the window of the "new" Paradise Lounge (historic music venue in San Francisco) so that the sign would feel Bohemian and be read if on a window or glass from both sides,he came up wit this design. Unfortunately, that venue closed under new ownership after a few short years.

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