Ambigramtastic

My pop gave The Captain a great book this Christmas—Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art and Science of Ambigrams by John Langdon. It offers an inside-out look at how an ambigram—a type-based graphic that reads the same both upright and upside-down—is born. It's a great reminder that the process of seeing and creating altogether new solutions to what might seem to be stale or already-solved problems are really remarkable skill sets. And some of them are just plain cool!



For more ambigram goodness, check out this ambigram photo set on Flickr and read Typographic Doppelgängers, an article by Langdon on the subject of creating these masterpieces.