In 2005 Illarion Gordon graduated from Stroganov Higher School of Art and Crafts, Moscow. Since 1996 he works as a freelance illustrator. He is a member of the Letterhead Studio. In 1996, at the Golden Bee biennale of graphic design Illarion Gordon was awarded a special prize of ParaGraph International for his typefaces, Probbarius and Strelochnik.