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Scott Kim's Inversions Page -- Isaac Asimov called him "The Escher of the Alphabet," which sums it up for me. Scott's book, Inversions, got me started (along with thousands of others, I'm sure). Includes links to other ambigrams on the web, as well as an original "Inversion of the week." * NEW! * Order Scott Kim's Inversions, direct from his publisher, Keypress!
John Langdon's WordPlay -- Douglas Hofstadter called him "a marvellous creator and a consummate artist". Langdon's book Wordplay gives elegant examples and goes into the philosophical background of his ambigrams. His website provides an opening chapter that describes the process of developing an ambigram as well as a dissertation on symmetry.
Douglas Hofstadter-Though he doesn't display ambigrams on his page, this Pulitzer-prizewinning cognitive scientist deserves ranking in the "Top 3" Ambigram Pros for taking part in coining the word "Ambigram". He has also written an Italian Ambigram Book (Ambigrammi) and examples of some of his Ambigrams can be found on François Almaleh's page
Roy Leban's Ambigrams --** NEW! ** The chief technologist at Akimbo Sytems (makers of the excellent 3rd Generation Web Design tool Globetrotter) has been doing ambigrams for about 20 years. Most of his work has been done on paper, but a few nice peices escaped to the 'Net!
Petrick's Symmetricks --* NEW! * The designer of "Angel," an ambigram first published in 1976, Bob Petrick is one of John Langdon's friends who helped popularize ambigrams in the mid 70's!
Cory's Amazing Ambigrams! --* NEW! * Nice work, including Shakespeare and all the months, flipped onto each other -- very original!
The AmbiGallery -- Word.Net's site on the Web for displaying original, animated Ambigrams from artists around the 'Net -- feel free to submit an entry! Requires the FutureSplash Plug-In.
Stefan Gustavson's Page-- An Ambigram artist that could consider going pro! Stefan has a clean, straightforward style.
Jared Pike's Inversion Project -- A list of over 400 mostly female names, rendered as Ambigrams. (you sly guy, Jared!)
Punya Mishra's Ambigrams -- Punya has a great gallery of dozens of Ambigrams, done in Photoshop!
Palindramas Visuales -- Ambigrams are alive and well south of the border, where they are known as Visual Palindromes.
Franklin Coleman's Inversions -- These names are reflectional inversions, as opposed to rotational.
François Almaleh's page -- Ambigrams en Français, mostly of Douglas Hofstadter's creation. François now includes his own Ambigram.Matic Generated Name!
Angelic Voyage: The World's First Ambigram.Matic Haiku --* NEW! * Poetic, symmetric, rhythmic,... try making some upside-down poems yourself!
Word.Net's List of Ambigrammible Names --* NEW! * If you're new to the world of Ambigrams, these names start and end in "Easy to Flip" letters!
Blake Hodgetts' page- A well-rendered last name
Chip A University professor got this ambigram as a gift from Punya Mishra
Home page of Henrik Turbell - Stephan Gustavson's friend has rendered his name as a 3d Ambigram.
Janet Lafara's Neighbors-- Janet's name makes a great AmbiBackground! Includes a link back to AmbiLinks!
Kai Krause-- the Metatools MasterMind uses his name to show us some Photoshop tips (TIP: scroll 75% down the page)
Meir Yedid's Page -A Magician friend of Scott Kim's displays some personalized ambigrams.
Mike Levin - A former student of John Langdon has made an ambigram on his name. Includes a link back to Ambigram.Matic!
Nancy Goroff's Home Page demonstrates that a handmade ambigram makes a good gift.
Tejasi- A baby with an ambigram webpage!
Wendy Carlos' Background -- Wendy explains how she developed her tiled background -- very Escher-esque!
Angels&Demons--NEW! This design for Dan Brown's album cover was created by John Langdon.
The Flat Earth Society -- This page has Thomas "Blinded With Science" Dolby's name animated and flipped onto itself !
Darpan-- Darpan means Mirror in Sanskrit, so this is an appropriate bilingual ambigram as the heading for an online Indian magazine.
Hip Eponymous -- If you look carefully at the background, you'll see it's the name of this acapella singing group, as an Ambigram.
Goeslogo -- This logo was created by Scott Kim for the Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellite (I think I spotted this logo at the beginning of the movie Twister!)
Presence --NEW! A glowing, floating word, professionally rendered in Adobe Photoshop by Peter Wang.
Stupid Pixel Tricks -- Check out Todd Gruppe's animated Ambigram logo.
Triology® (a registered trademark of SET Enterprises, Inc.) -- The logo design for this creative boardgame was created by John Langdon.
Developing an ambigram, by John Langdon
ambigram.art - This is historical proof that there were ambigrams on the 'Net back in the ASCII days!
Ewoorddr -- A variation on Scott Kim's Dream Ambigram.
Happy 1996-1998 D -- Punya made this animated New Year's Card for '96, Year of the Ambigram!
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