It took me a while to figure out what this type of thing was called. It's an "ambigram" - meaning rotationally symmetrical word. Roy Leban, a software designer in our offices at Startpad does this with his first name as a signature and I thought I'd it a shot.This is what I got.
Hey, maybe Roy can get your whole office signing things in ambigram!
ReplyDelete...and then Startpad can then get the phenomenon to spread worldwide!
Anyway, nice ambigram. Did you do that on a tablet?
It was done on paper. I wrote my name out, flipped it, then fond a way to tweak it so it looked pretty good. Took a few times to get the upside down 'M' to be an 'r' and a 'k'.
ReplyDeleteI then took a picture of it with my Blackberry. Sent it to myself. Modified it in Photoshop to make it an exact ambigram. Sent the paths to Illustrator. Added a 'paper background' that I found on the web.
I looked at the flipscript.com website when I finally figured out what it was called. Very nice site and fun to use.
Hi Mark, nicely done!
ReplyDeleteA Mark Swardstrom ambigram could be done too:
M-M
a-o
r-r
k-st
s-d
w-ar
we do some ambigrams too.
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