Ambigrams

[Janaki Jambunathan]

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What about ambigrams - words that read same upside down

pod NOON WOW MOM

Ref Readers digest

Any more?

The New Man logo is one of the first commercially designed ambigram logo designed by designer Raymond Loewy in year 1969, which is still in use today.

The recent

 

[mskmoorthy]

Some Additional places on ambigrams (generalizations o inversions)

http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/inversions/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram
Scott Kim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Kim has a recent gallery on ambigrams http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/inversions/#gallery

Scott Kim's book on Inversions https://www.amazon.com/dp/1559532807/ref=rdr_ext_tmb is a delightful book. Douglas Hofstader https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter has written a foreword to that book.
This is in page 11 of the book mentioning explicitly about Tamil Language (in a complimentary way)

 

[renuka]

Too much of reading forum...when I saw the word Ambigram..I thought its about an Instagram for Ambis!LOL

 

[Janaki Jambunathan]

Ambi remembers Sivaji when Kamal gets his French Honour !

சி வா ஜி

வா யி லே

ஜி லே பி

 

[vgane]

I was actually thinking that Ambigram is to do with the weight of our Ambi!

This is good reading though! Learnt something from mskm's links

 

[vgane]

Interesting stuff in https://designshack.net/articles/graphics/how-to-design-an-ambigram/

 

[vgane]

Look at this! Life becomes Death! One & the same!

 

[vgane]

Art & Science becomes Philosophy

 

[Janaki Jambunathan]

I was actually thinking that Ambigram is to do with the weight of our Ambi!

Here is Ambi(kilo)grams!

http://www.tamilbrahmins.com/showthread.php?t=32172

 

[mskmoorthy]

Ambi remembers Sivaji when Kamal gets his French Honour !

சி வா ஜி

வா யி லே

ஜி லே பி

The one given above is an example of a word square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_square
There are plenty of word plays both in English and in other languages.

Word play used to be the forte of Sanskrit Poetry (https://who.rocq.inria.fr/Ramakrishna.Upadrasta/Sanskrit/14339015-The-wonder-that-is-Sanskrit.pdf )and Tamil Poetry (kaalamega pulavar https://www.scribd.com/doc/3832521/Kalamega-Pulavar-Paadalgal ) - languages that I am familiar with.

 

[vgane]

The one given above is an example of a word square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_square
There are plenty of word plays both in English and in other languages.

Word play used to be the forte of Sanskrit Poetry (https://who.rocq.inria.fr/Ramakrishna.Upadrasta/Sanskrit/14339015-The-wonder-that-is-Sanskrit.pdf )and Tamil Poetry (kaalamega pulavar https://www.scribd.com/doc/3832521/Kalamega-Pulavar-Paadalgal ) - languages that I am familiar with.

Thanks for sharing the details