What is an ambigram? Wikipedia defines an ambigram as ‘a typographical design or artform that may be read as one or more words, not only as presented, but also from another viewpoint, direction or orientation’. Which sounds like a pretty good definition, if you ask me.
Although the occurence of self-symmetric letters and words is an automatic, emergent function of the Latin alphabet, the design of modern ambigrams was pioneered and popularized by Scott Kim and John Langdon, beginning in the 1970s. None of my designs would have been created had I not been originally inspired by their remarkable and elegant designs.
All of the ambigram designs on the site, and the design of the site itself, are all my own work and have together taken a lot of time to create, so please don’t steal them.
And who am I? I’m Brett, and although I may from time to time design ambigrams, I am otherwise a professional designer of a variety of things, including websites, puzzles and board games. If you want to keep up with my current thinking about, amongst other things, board game design please visit my blog at www.brettspiel.co.uk.
Thanks for coming to my site — I hope you enjoy your visit!
