Quick Draw 16

At Ambigram.com, we decided to start the holiday season early! For this Quick Draw, John Moore & Alex Paat squared off and took on the word Jingle Bells. Both participants are frequent visitors and contributors to Ambigram.com. Take a look at the work they’ve done, and as always, feel free to post your own take on this week’s Quick Draw! [NOTE: All designs are copyrighted by the respective artists. We have permission to post them here, but you must get permission from the artist for any other use of their design, or to post them elsewhere.]

Alex Paat

I make my best ambigrams by hand, so I decided to hand-draw the “Jingle Bells” ambigram and then scan it onto the computer.  To save time and energy and to make the ambigram more accurate, I drew only the first half of my final drawings and added the second half digitally.

Although in the very early stages of the design process I experimented with making the “lls” in “bells” flip into the “J” in “jingle,” I found it more effective and legible if the “s” simply flipped into the “j.”  The easy “g-b” letter combination helped piece together the final result, and all the letter combinations came together easily after that.

When I had figured out the final solution, I decided to draw some holly leaves and berries inside the letters to give the final ambigram a Christmas feel.  Since I believe that legibility is by far the most important aspect of an ambigram, I wanted the holly graphics to be subtle enough so as to not overpower the ambigram, while still effectively contributing to the Christmas theme.  I hope the final ambigram is both readable and aesthetically pleasing.  Merry (early) Christmas to you all, and I hope my ambigram helped you get into the Christmas spirit! 

John Moore

When I saw the word is supposed that feasibility had to be created. I began toconsider its options, with the chart pattern or inverted letters of the word, so to study the similarities and opportunities provided by way of combining those letters fairly to both inversions.

In fact, the ”J” and “S” are of the same morphological family, likewise the ”I” and “L”, similar case is the combination “N” with ”EL”, whose inversion allow ambiguity.

Arriving at the ”G” I see that looks very similar to the “B”, which was not a problem. The dilemma began to try to get to center of the word, where “L” fight the epicenter with the “E”, this inversion makes the “L” anticipate the “B”. For more I tried to solve this dilemma, I couldn’t integrate it with the “B” therefore sought to disguise the ”L”, so to avoid this undesirable interference, trying to camouflage as an ornament, that somehow seems to be part of the “B ”. No doubt the center of the word is the big problem with this ambigram where “E” is surrounded by letters “L”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you ask me if I am 100% satisfied, I am convinced that no, although the universe of possibilities is infinite, I had to solve as we see in the picture. I only hope that the public likes it.

Dear Alex and John, thank you for participating!  The next Quick Draw is already in progress, and it promises to be a doozie…with a potential 3-way participation!