Ambigrams are sweeeeet.

I just got back from Wicked, which was awesome..if you guys get a chance, you have to check it out!

Anyways for this post I thought I'd share something thats kinda graphic designy. I'm pretty sure some of you have read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (the guy who also wrote The Da Vinci Code). I think his books are a pretty interesting and entertaining read, although I know he's questioned by many about the validity of facts in his books. So I read Angels and Demons, which I thought was cool because I've always been fascinated with the relationship of Art and Science and the whole Illuminati concept, and I saw the ambigrams in the book. Ambigrams are words or phrases that can be rotated 180 degrees, and remain the same word.

The artist who did the ambigrams in the book is John Langdon. Besides the ambigrams, which have also been used as logos, he also paints. Some of his work is interesting as its inspired by, or even pays tribute to, Jackson Pollack and Andy Warhol. In fact he does Rorschach-style (inkblot) paintings, which was inspired by an exhibition Warhol had done in the sixties. I love the idea of ambiguity that is shown in his work.

These are some of the ambigrams he's done (so if you turn your head sideways, and read it upside down, its the same word! oooh aaah):