Wordplay

[maritsaki]

For those of you who have watched the Da Vinci Code do you remember the main character John Langdon who interprets symbols? I found this book he's written on ambigrams (words that can be read upside down or from left to right) called Wordplay, they're truly amazing... You can turn them upside down and still read the word!

You can have a look at his website on:

Ambigrams, Logos, Word Art

[Toon]

Really good if you can do something like this in branding it adds an extra level to the use

[Arkady]

Not the same I know but it just reminded me of the old Vision On Logo.

[Alex*]

really nice but his names actually robert langdon hes not real this is just another guy who has the same last name

[sparky]

Derren Brown did a similar thing in his Trick or Treat series recently. They'd managed to write it so that it read TRICK one way and TREAT the other, so that when the participant picked a card, Derren could flip it over whichever way he wanted to decide their fate.

[Sonic]

everyone should know this. "illuminati" is a very nice book by Dan Brown and an absolute bestseller here in Germany. Read it ;)

[alneo]

I have been on the website before. What he can do with a pencil and paper is truly incredible. I remember a tutorial on his website, it really improved my perception of viewing and creating certain aspects of an ambigram.

Toon: Your soo right. Clients would love that feature in their logo. It would be something to admire like the Fedex Logo.

[Laura Lynne]

I shame the people that choose computer ideas over pen or pencil

[onesummer]

actually I believe John Langdon (author of the wordplay book) has done ambigrams for Dan Brown (author of Angles&Demons). anyway, the other day I actually created my first ambigram, nothing special, but what do you guys think of it? aka is what it spells, just the abbreviation for "also known as"

[Toon]

It's good