Amazing Ambigram Designs

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Hey Folks have you heard about ambigram ?
   Well, I'm hearing it for the first time. It's quite an interesting stuff..

Well all those people including "me" who haven't heard about this I'll provide short and brief information on it.

What is Ambigram ?
    An ambigram is a word, art form or other symbolic representation, whose elements retain meaning when viewed or interpreted from a different direction, perspective, or orientation.

    The meaning of the ambigram may either change, or remain the same, when viewed or interpreted from different perspectives.

Well there is history how did this term was phrased. Don't mind I will not entire history just short and famous logos used.

 The term “ambigram” was first used to mean “ambiguous anagram” by Judith E. Bagai, a former editor of The Enigma, the official organ of The National Puzzlers’ League.

The earliest known non-natural ambigram dates to 1893 by artist Peter Newell. Although better known for his children's books and illustrations for Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll, he published two books of invertible illustrations, in which the picture turns into a different image entirely when turned upside down. The last page in his book, Topsys & Turvys contains the phrase THE END, which, when inverted, reads PUZZLE. In Topsys & Turvys Number 2 (1902), Newell ended with a variation on the ambigram in which THE END changes into PUZZLE 2.

The mirror ambigram DeLorean Motor Company logo was first used in 1975.

Ambigrams became more popular as a result of Dan Brown incorporating John Langdon's designs into the plot of his bestseller, Angels & Demons, and the DVD release of the Angels & Demons movie contains a bonus chapter called "This is an Ambigram".

In the first series of the British show Trick or Treat, the shows host and creator Derren Brown uses cards with rotational ambigrams. These cards can read either 'Trick' or 'Treat'.


Have you ever seen a word and read the same word upside down? This is one form of an ambigram. An ambigram (from Latin: ambi both + gram = letter) is a word or words that can be read in more than one direction, where the word reads the same when upside down or turn over to form an entirely new word. 

“Illuminati” Edited from the original version by John Langdon.

“Right/Wrong” Amibigram with some graffiti element. By NastyBasty

Well if you look at "right" the other way is "wrong" same case is with second one as well.


“Air” Robert Langdons ambigram Air, from the book Angels and Deamons

“Reverse engineering” By Scott Kim

It’s called an ambigram, and it’s the hottest trend in typography since Helvetica. The other way round is reverse engineering. Cool isn't it ?


“Paris” via npgraphicdesign

Brands we are familiar with..

“Sun Microsystem”

“Hyundai Motor”

 

  

Ambigram types

Ambigrams are exercises in graphic design that play with optical illusions, symmetry and visual perception. Some ambigrams feature a relationship between their form and their content. Ambigrams usually fall into one of several categories:

3-Dimensional 

A design where an object is presented that will appear to read several letters or words when viewed from different angles. Such designs can be generated using constructive solid geometry.

Figure-ground 

A design in which the spaces between the letters of one word form another word.

Mirror-image 

A design that can be read when reflected in a mirror, usually as the same word or phrase both ways. Ambigrams that form different words when viewed in the mirror are also known as glass door ambigrams, because they can be printed on a glass door to be read differently when entering or exiting.

Rotational 

A design that presents several instances of words when rotated through a fixed angle. This is usually 180 degrees, but rotational ambigrams of other angles exist, for example 90 or 45 degrees. The word spelled out from the alternative direction(s) is often the same, but may be a different word to the initially presented form. A simple example is the lower-case abbreviation for "Down", dn, which looks like the lower-case word up when rotated 180 degrees.