Links
There are lots of other excellent ‘ambigrammists’ out there, and quite a few of them have websites, so there is a great variety of inventive designs on the internet to delight and inspire!
So here’s a little list of ambigram websites, in no particular order...
- John Langdon
- One of the primary exponents of the art of the ambigram, with a brilliantly inventive and sophisticated graphic style. John Langdon not only created the ambigrams that appeared in Angels and Demons – the prequel to Dan Brown’s phenomenally successful The Da Vinci Code – but also leant the novel’s hero his name. In the UK, the original paperback edition of Angels and Demons also featured a John Langdon design of the title (and was the reason I picked the book up in the first place!).
- Scott Kim
- Another of the original ambigram pioneers, self-styled ‘puzzlemaster’ Scott Kim doesn’t just do ambigrams. His website has a fantastic array of designs, and I can heartily recommend his book Inversions, which my sister bought for me (direct from the man himself!) in America.
- Blake Hodgetts
- Includes some really elegant designs – I especially like the bilateral ‘ambigrams’ design at the top of the page.
- Iván Skvarca
- This designer’s ambigrams are collected on separate pages (follow the links to the numbered ‘sala’s on the right-hand side). I’m afraid I can’t read the language, but the ambigrams speak for themselves. (It’s is a really elegant website too.)
- Punya Mishra
- An assistant professor at Michigan State University, Punya Mishra has created an impressively broad and varied collection of designs.
- Paolo Aprea
- An Italian ambigram enthusiast who has put together a large collection of interesting designs.
- Kevin Pease
- Wow! Some great designs here, including an ambigram of the entire first verse of Lewis Carroll’s famous Jabberwocky. I also really like the brilliantly simple ‘312’ design.
- Jonathan Gough
- Jonathan, a PhD student at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, is pretty much the only other ambigram designer in the UK with a website – we’re a pretty rare breed, no? – and has created a really interesting (and growing) collection. I particularly like the elegant letterforms in his ‘Kennedy’ design.
- Robert Maitland
- Robert has created an amazing collection of inventive and varied designs – there are so many (all listed in the scrollable frame on the right-hand side of his page) that it would take quite a while to see them all! There is also a really good set of ambigram links.