Showing posts with label Ambigram. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ambigram. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2014

Street Scene: and! and handy


signs photographed in Hong Kong.


Advertisement seen on an N line train, New York City
Good example of an ambigram.
Also see AmbigramsScott Kim and John Langdon.

(Next post on Monday: Life Drawings)

Monday, September 24, 2012

Anatomy of a Logo: Perpetual Notion


Perpetual Notion was a New York City design studio formed by Tom Chung and Dale Campbell in the 1980s. In the mid-1970s I met Tom at Arizona State University when we were students. Dale was one of Tom’s classmates. Tom showed me some his logo designs for the new studio. I sketched a logo as an ambigram. Tom reworked my sketch, lettered the logo and designed the stationery.



(Related posts: Ambigrams, Scott Kim, John Langdon;
next Monday: Olivia De Berardinis’ Exotica Calendar)

Friday, September 21, 2012

Creator: John Langdon


Wordplay
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992

Dust jacket detail and selected pages

NEWSoS, Spring 1994
Newsletter of the Society of Scribes

Monday, September 17, 2012

Lettering: Ambigrams


The Strand Magazine
chump
honey

October 1908
W.H. Hill, Bet, bung, mow, pod, hay, dip

Omni magazine 1988


Vans advertisement, 1992

New X Men, July 2001

Topsys & Turvys
Peter Newell
Dover Publications, 1964
Cover and “puzzle / the end”


(Related posts: Scott Kim, John Langdon, Perpetual Notion)