Meet the Artist: Mark Palmer

Ambigram tattoo (on Fuel lead singer Toryn Green)

Ambigram artist Mark Palmer holds the unofficial title of “World’s Most Tattooed Artist”. At least, no one else has stepped forward to challenge that claim. It’s also hard to imagine that any other tattoo artist has had his designs inked as many times as Mark.

Palmers’ invertible typographical designs can be found on tens of thousands of people from all over the world, have been featured in magazines and on TV shows like LA Ink and have been spotted on celebrities such as Toryn Green (‘Fuel’) and Levar Burton (‘Roots’).

Still, just like measuring the circulation of magazines that get “passed around”, it’s difficult to accurately measure a statistic like the “World’s Most Tattooed Artist” without some kind of “body ink census”.

Whether the title is true or not, his work record is impressive.

Mark Palmer's ambigram of his name

Founder of his own on-line ambigram tattoo design company called WowTattoos, Palmer has been selling his designs to the public for over 5 years. He sells a line of Flash books that can be found in tattoo shops around the world, and even started an ambigram clothing line to dovetail with his tattoo design offering (which worked out pretty nicely for Ed Hardy).

Palmer is also the artist behind the Glyphusion ambigram generator, the world’s most sophisticated ambigram software, and is part owner of Glyphusion, Inc.

We’re pleased to feature Mark Palmer as the first artist in Ambigram Magazine’s “Meet the Artist” series.